Writer's Block: United Nations World Teachers Day

[cuddlefish]

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No. This is Teachers Day. Let's talk about how we support better compensation and support for teachers so that teaching won't just be a shit job that takes the runoff from other, more profitable professions. That means higher salaries, administration that isn't supremely retarded, and taxpayers who aren't just pretending they don't hate their children.

This is in fact a subject that kind of makes me mad but I'm annoyed about some other things, too. >:|

I'll make an entry about my new laptop later.

P.S. As far as I understand, when they teach the really complicated formulas in algebra/geometry/calculus, not even the teachers think most of the students will use that stuff in real life (barring specialized professions). It's there to make students' brains develop abstract thinking and problem solving skills. Also, paired with science it really can result in more scientists on your side in the war against communism.

Comments

[narugami.livejournal.com]

My old high school has this really annoying habit of constantly renovating the building but never ever raising teachers' salaries. As you imagine the computers are state-of-the-art but the education kinda suffers...

About math, it is necessary if you go into science after high school, but a lot of kids graduate without mastering basic math and then fail horribly at calculus (here HS runs until grade 11 and then we have two years of university prep called CEGEP). Like me, for instance.

[moumusu.livejournal.com]

For a long time, my town very very very stubbornly voted against tax overrides for more school money. As a result, I went to high school in a building that was built in the 1930s---well, there was also a building from the time of open classrooms that only had some partitions added on. I don't know about the teachers' salaries. The school mostly got away with being the way it was because a science teacher did some award-winning research on vernal pools, but I can tell you that every other subject suffered.

tl;dr I live in a liberal state but a conservative town and I am bitter.

Ya, but. Calculus. That's school again :( Going to school for nothing but school is too depressing.

[runan.livejournal.com]

"a science teacher did some award-winning research on vernal pools"

Did he really win awards? I was in his class--it was fun. But yeah, the school was a DUMP.

[moumusu.livejournal.com]

lawl

Well, I don't know. The school's science reputation was enough so that many parents who didn't know better would pick a house in a Reading school district just to get their kids in there.

My mother was actually taken aback when she saw how one of the corners of the A building basement floor was constantly dark.