HE WAS ONLY A TEACHER
The bullet pierced him,
he was only a teacher,
he would have preferred to live is my guess
instead of providing
a twelve year old a lesson in fire arm death.
© M Durfee
10/26/13
Does your governor blame teachers and their unions for the poor performance and tell the citizens of the state that $38,750 is too much for a beginning teacher like they do in MA? Or the average Nevada salary of $53,450 is ruining the state’s economy? I wonder if Connecticut felt a lifting of financial burden and an and improvement in overall standardized test scores last year? We give oil companies 4 billion per year in subsidies and complain about teacher salaries? Tell a teacher they will only get a raise if their students don’t murder them and the student does well on national standardized testing? We are fucked up, yes WE because we let out politicians entertain the thought of the uselessness of teachers and present their jobs to us as nothing more than financial drain.
thanks Mark...we have just had the most amazing t.v. prog about teachers in a rough area in Yorkshire....very moving!
ReplyDeleteGerry. we don't need a slum school to kill a teacher in. A slum school teacher has abetter chance of making it through the day than does an insructor in a stressed out middle class district.
DeleteThe pharmaceutical and oil industries are our 2 evil big brothers, but we still support them every day. Healthcare and education are our 2 starving sisters, kept to believe in ... Santa ... you guessed it.
ReplyDeleteMeowMomma damn right. As long as we have drugs to numb the life and oil to lube us with we're told it's all about 2nd amendment rights. The old bait and switch for the rich to get more from them who have nothing except a magazine, preferably extended.
Deletethat pretty much is consistent with here...except you make more there for first year teachers....just saying....cucenelli is our dickweed...he better not get elected...he wants the poor to be homeschooled so the rich can have their own place...
ReplyDeletePay wise Brian that was the scale I found in MA. In MI the land of the charter school they may get $20,000 to start and by the time they have 35 years on the job in a union they may be up to $65,000.
DeleteWe have only ourselves to blame as the country drifts into the waters of insanity,
Preach it!
ReplyDeleteJeff I may have isolated myself from most face to face contact but i still keep up, and it seems the more we remain silent the more the vicious take our silence as tacit approval for their insanity and now we pass it to our kids and dare to say "I don't know where my child went wrong." Of course neglect had nothing to do with it did it?
DeleteIt's so clear that our priorities are effed up and yet nothing seems able to be done. I don't know.
ReplyDeleteGo against the grain Charles and write fucked. Yes our prioities are fucked u but remember ever office holder had to win votes or have the Supreme court put them in power. NOW is the time to decide, either we take back our country or we give up freedom, true freedom, you know the kind that comes with sanity or let the radical fringe drag us over the abyss.
DeleteWe used to support war on poverty; now we arm ourselves with blatant lies and wage war on any public servants. The war on teachers is the worst.
ReplyDeleteRosaria it was LBJ's war on poverty that started us on this path if you ask me. That was when we codified a class system and took away the need for education, people learned to work the system instead of just work as a part of having a life. And then we get to today where now them that try to educate the young to be productive are trampled underfoot simply because there are more teachers and public servants than there are poor and wealthy so they are a tree with low hanging easy to pick fruit. After all we serve at the behest of government.
Delete...only a teacher... and only two this week... This is beyond sad.
ReplyDeleteI think "only a teacher" says it all... in this society and time when money means everything and education means nothing.
Vesper, my dear friend, I am going to let your comment stand and speak for itself.
DeleteAmen!
ReplyDeleteCloudia coming from your roots you understand the underlay of the anger we grew up in.
DeleteTeachers work so hard and have to put up with so much BS as well as dangerous circumstances. They are vastly underpaid.
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