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  1. really....? Steel spelled "steal?"
    April 03, 2013 12:38 pm on First ships of the year dock into Port of Indiana
  2. You are so right! That finance major that can't get a job decides to teach....elementary education! Hopefully he/she can even get into special education to make it more interesting.

    Do you even think before typing?
    December 05, 2012 3:45 pm on Indiana changes training requirements for new teachers
  3. Yah...you have no clue.

    Teachers have 183 working days. The school day is 8 hrs. Every teacher I know works 4-8 hrs per weekend. Grading/planning is another 1-2 hrs every night minimum. Dealing with IEPs (do you know what those are?), special needs, inclusion...all take additional time. 183 working days @ 12 hrs/day (weekend time included in the per day) comes out to a whooping $15.64 for a $34k, new teacher. Total working hours: 2,220. Total working hours for a 52 week, 45 hr a week job? 2,340. Think before you type, you won't seem so ignorant. Don't even start with stipends for coaching and committees. $5k to be the head coach of a varsity sport? 3.5hrs a day on non game nights. 5 hrs a day for game days, off-season conditioning/weightlifting/fundraising, tryouts...all adds up to peanuts on the hour. Its amazing that assistant coaches can stick around at $1500 a season. As far as I know there are zero teachers without a college diploma. Why you think they should make less than a Costco cashier or the other hundreds of thousands of jobs that require no education is baffling. Your children, the future of this world, are going to spend over 20,000 hours with these people if they don't even go to college...you should want districts to pay a higher wage to keep good teachers in the profession.
    December 05, 2012 3:30 pm on Indiana changes training requirements for new teachers
  4. Yah $52k avg. salary with the avg. age of 41 years in Lake Central. I'm sorry, but any college degree earning professional making $52k @ age 41 is underachieving...big time.

    Paying your teachers like they are McDonald's employees will only result in even poorer results.
    December 05, 2012 2:47 pm on Indiana changes training requirements for new teachers
  5. I hope your point is aimed at teaching being a skill. Topic knowledge is absolutely NOT the most important aspect of a teacher. A good math teacher can easily become a good social studies teacher with some effort and the same can be said for the opposite (assuming non AP / Honors courses for H.S.). You can be the smartest person in the world but if you don't know how to deliver the information to others in a variety of ways you will fail your students. Why do you think people like Wayne Gretzky, Bart Starr, Mike Singletary, Magic Johnson, Ted Williams, and Isiah Thomas were terrible head coaches in the sports that they were some of the best, if not the best to ever play?
    December 05, 2012 2:41 pm on Indiana changes training requirements for new teachers
  6. Excellent idea. Let's dilute the pool of teachers with more unqualified candidates. This will simply create an excessive supply of candidates and will only hurt current and recent graduates who actually WANT to teach (of course they don't know what they are getting into yet). Want to bargain for your pay freezes to be lifted? Good luck. Administrations know they can just go find a bunch of less qualified, cheaper alternatives.
    December 05, 2012 2:30 pm on Indiana changes training requirements for new teachers
  7. Most contract times are 7:10-3:10 / 7:20-3:20, etc (AKA 8 hours). Contract time is when you are obligated to physically be in the school. Does not include planning, grading, etc. Within the 183 days 2 days are records days. Teachers in training days? You are working (getting trained) with a sub in your room...how is that not work? Oh by the way...don't for get to make the sub plans for what they need to do every 10 minutes. News to me that the average person works 260 days of the year. Funny how you have no basic math skills, you probably are a product of poor school systems as well. Let's see...52 weeks in a year. 5 days in a week. 260 days! Oh wait, 10 national holidays for the "average" person, more for others. Now we are down to 250 days. Year round jobs get anywhere from 1-5 weeks of vacation. We'll use 2 weeks on the low side. Now we are down to 240 days. Use your brain sometime. The 183 days mentioned are days required in school, not including holidays etc that you try to "forget" in your argument. Teachers don't receive traditional vacation days like your average job either. 3 personal business days and depending, 5-10 sick days. Get some facts before acting like you have a clue.
    September 11, 2012 10:38 am on Issues in Chicago teachers strike mirror concerns of some NWI educators
  8. Yah...you have no clue.

    Teachers have 183 working days. The school day is 8 hrs. Every teacher I know works 4-8 hrs per weekend. Grading/planning is another 1-2 hrs every night. Dealing with IEPs (do you know what those are?), special needs, inclusion...all take time. 183 working days @ 12 hrs/day (weekend time included in the per day) comes out to a whooping $15.64 for a $34k teacher. Total working hours: 2,220. Total working hours for a 52 week, 45 hr a week job? 2,340. Think before you type, you won't seem so ignorant. Don't even start with stipends for coaching and committees. $5k to be the head coach of a varsity sport? 3.5hrs a day on non game nights. 5 hrs a day for game days, off-season conditioning/weightlifting/fundraising, tryouts...all adds up to peanuts on the hour. Its amazing that assistant coaches can stick around at $1500 a season. As far as I know there are zero teachers without a college diploma. Why you think they should make less than a Costco cashier or the other hundreds of thousands of jobs that require no education is baffling. Your children, the future of this world, are going to spend over 20,000 hours with these people if they don't even go to college...you should want districts to pay a higher wage to keep good teachers in the profession.
    September 11, 2012 8:13 am on Issues in Chicago teachers strike mirror concerns of some NWI educators
  9. Obviously those of you with no recent experience in school districts can understand what is going on here. 30 kindergarten children in a classroom with 1 teacher is a recipe for disaster. Everyone thinks they have to share their stories about walking to school uphill in the snow without shoes when they were young...and you turned out just fine, right?! Enough with your tales of how great it was in the past with worse conditions.

    Do any of you have children? Does anyone here have or know a child that has special needs? Do you get frustrated or overwhelmed with one, two, or three of your own children? Try being responsible for 30 of them for 6.5 hours, 185 days of the year. Be responsible for 30 children of varying needs....some bright for their age, some scared, some that cry, some that don't know how to wipe their own behind, some that have autism, some that don't know English as their first language. Try to be responsible for all of these children, to teach them how to read, write, and understand basic math. Be responsible for these children to learn what manners are and how to behave. From what I see most of the general public can't even say that they have accomplished this with their own children, you know...the ones that they should love and spend infinite time with, yet you expect and demand a teacher making $32k to be able to perform some miracle and do this with thirty 5 year olds in a classroom on their own?

    Everyone needs a reality check. Blame the state. Blame the school. Blame the parents. All are to blame. Instead of blaming, fix the problem.

    Here's a riddle. What is Red, White, and Blue...and in between Slovenia and Lithuania? The United States. Ranking an embarrassing #21 in the world in the education index. In 10 years we'll be #30, and so on. Keep thinking that paying $30k for educators is going to churn out the new Eddisons and Einsteins. Make intelligent people, who can make $70k-$100k in the private sector, attracted to teaching.

    -Signed a licensed teacher that would never consider stepping into a classroom again.

    September 06, 2012 4:24 pm on Parents challenge Lake Central School Board, administration at meeting
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