Tuesday, February 28, 2012
For this blog I wanted to see what my fellow teachers think about our law makers adding 5 days to the school calendar. Personally, I can't believe they are asking this of us. I not sure what they are trying to accomplish by making the students go five extra days of school. From what I understand the school system has to foot the bill to run the schools on those five days. Do you know how much money that is? That includes lights, buses, gas, afterschool care, lunch, etc. That is a ton of money. The problem with that is that teachers have not had a raise in four years. That is FOUR YEARS!!!!!!!!! I would rather them take the money from the 5 days and give me a raise. I'm not trying to take anything away from the students, but law makers are just putting more and more on the teachers and we don't even get a pat on the back. I'm not really sure what five day is going to do for the students. Looking at our proposed calendar, we only have one workday for the entire school year. One day!!!!!! What would help me to be a more effective teacher is have more workdays in my classroom instead of meetings, meetings, meetings. I just wanedt to know what my fellow teachers think about the 5 extra days of school. Please let me know.
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I support your view on this topic. I am still hoping that this decision will be reversed before we go back to school in the fall. WE are already overwhelmed with our day to day responsibilities and losing those teacher work days will profoundly impact us.
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ReplyDeleteI would like to say AMEN and AMEN again to your post!! It makes you wonder how much more will be required of us. We just recently learned that our school system received a waiver for the 5 additional days. While I am relieved at this news I can only wonder what next year will bring. It is apparent that the law makers are unaware of all of the demands we face in order to relay our curriculum to the children not to mention our other non-teaching duties. This is the first job I have ever had where I did not receive a raise in 4 years. I was told initially the one can never be compensated for your work as a teacher because the payment is not always monetary. I understand this now more than ever yet I show up everyday and give it my all because I love the children and I know that they need me and at times that is payment enough.