Berkeley Teachers won't give homework

[jack spade23]

Any comments on this? I think its unfair to jepordize student's futures because teachers want more. I thought teachers main thing was the kids. But I also don't like Arnold that much, and this is kinda his fault too.

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[TomCollins]

Teachers need to get used to the world of salary work. Teachers, for only working 9 months a year, are terribly overpaid. If it weren't for the teacher union, it would be pretty easy to fire and replace them.

[wacki]

Grading papers is caveman style, much more can be taught, graded, and learned via webpages.

Unless you are an English teacher, you should never have grade a paper.

[lehighguy]

In my personal experience with public school (and I went to a good one) 10% of teachers are dedicated professionals who care about kids and 90% are incompetent placeholders who need a paycheck and can't get a job in whatever field they studied.

The said thing is the teachers union represents the 90% and screws the 10%.

[lastchance]

Why am I not over there at that school?

[sirio11]

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Teachers need to get used to the world of salary work. Teachers, for only working 9 months a year, are terribly overpaid. If it weren't for the teacher union, it would be pretty easy to fire and replace them.

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wth are you talking about? Just ranting? overpaid, jesus.

Replace them? with whom? As today there is a shortage of teachers and professors. The education system in the US has to hire many foreigners to cover the positions, mostly because Americans don't want to teach, because the job is underpaid.

[BCPVP]

Yes sirio, overpaid. They work less than 9 months (summer+Christmas+Spring Break+days off). In Wisconsin, they have practically free health care. They're tough to fire. They have it pretty easy compared to some jobs.

And at the lower education levels, I haven't seen much hiring of "foreigners" (whatever that means because they still get paid the same). Most of it at the upper levels seems to be in the name of "diversity".

[sirio11]

Well, I work at the College Level (Math professor at UTEP).

And here you can work only the Spring and the Fall semester (9 months).
You can work Spring, Fall and Summer (11 months).
Or you can work, Spring, Fall, Summer, Maymester and Wintermester(12 months).
You earn more if you work 12 than if you work 9 as in ANY other job. I don't know what's the strange thing about the 9 months.

[sirio11]

Coul anybody give me a good definition of overpaid?

$20 per hr? $100 per hour is overpaid?

And of course if you have some research in the subject, much better, like a comparision between all the effective hours work by a teacher vs his annual salary, and versus different occupations.

David

[Dead]

He's just talking out of his ass.

The average teacher here makes about 41k. That's hardly overpaid, considering that they spend about 35 hours a week teaching, and at least 10-15 hours a week doing stuff outside of class.