Nobody cares until you can’t find one.

via sermon. Can't have people thinking for themselves.

The christofascist agenda to kill the Enlightenment.

to foot the bill to try and get somewhat educated people hired on (when they can find them).

We, at our company still ended up sending new hires to an extensive 18-week training program (IT-related). One of the pet peeves I had was trying to explain to students that they had to better their writing skills, after all, even thought they were in IT and such, they still had to communicate intelligently w/ the outside client world who didn't know IT (not all of them, some were IT-literate).

Usually don’t get job offers until mid September!

There's only Google, Amazon, Facebook, and money. Nothing else matters.

I woukd never go back.

As a 20year teaching vet, this is spot on.

Junior missed 14, then 16, then 17 classes and if he misses 18, he loses credit for the course. And these form letters to the house get filled out on pressure sensitive paper so parent gets the top copy. Second copy goes in kid's folder in guidance so that there is a "Due process" record. Teacher keeps the third copy.

On the 18th absence, teacher has to sit through the appeal after which credit is restored if the parents have political pull.

By May of the school year, teacher is spending at least an hour per day on this bullshit.


Then there are the meetings, for the sake of meetings. You've already spent 7 hours trying to keep your head straight. Then comes an hour or two more of listening to instructions that could have been handled by memos to staff.

But don't worry. If you hang in there for 25 years or more, there is a pension that'll at least keep you in rice and beans from month to month --- such pension is good unless you are in N.J. and Chris Christie puts an end to cost of living raises. N.J teacher retirees haven't had a C.O.L.A raise since 2008. Will other states follow?

And the bullshit goes on and on. My s-i-l retires in four years. Every September starts out the same at teacher set-up and "inspiration."

Some asshole stands in front of the room and says, "I know you have lots of paper work to fill out every day. We appreciated your effort. Now, here's some more stuff for you to fill out."

She's just keeping track of the days until retirement. She teaches at a catholic school. With all the monies from the prosecutions, etc., they've taken away from the schools. This year, she didn't even get the usual small (too small!) stipend to buy school supplies. We helped her via Facebook/Amazon to get her classroom ready. She's taught at this school since she graduated college. You think there'd be a little merit and respect. But all she gets is more responsibility without any corresponding remuneration of any type at all. At my worst in contracting, I made more than she did. It's just not fair, she worked all the time -- at school, in nearly all her "free" time hours. She was lucky if she managed to get 6-8 hours of sleep, get up, commute an hour to school, and do it all over again. And of course, for her, there were all the added responsibilities of teaching religion classes, the masses, getting ready for first communions, etc. And, as the one with most seniority, it all fell on her.

The worst, IMO, tho, is that as the society has coarsened, a lot of the kids that have been kicked out of public schools for behavior problems, have found their way into her school system... and into her classes, in particular. This year she had 7. All 7 had records for behavior issues that went beyond fighting. A few were school arson issues. All of them had records for burglary. 2 were charged in off campus killings of some kind. She's suppose to teach 6th and 7th graders with these disrupters in the classroom. Meanwhile, I worry for *her* safety.

I'll be so relieved when she's done, I'm going to give a party for her retirement!