StephenHero
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No, I don't. But I also don't see you or other professional attacked constantly with comments about how little teachers work.
It's pretty self explanatory. Teachers commonly use three tactics to justify their job performance and compensation, all of which have appeared in the last few posts. 1. "It's such a stressful job. You have no idea." 2. "I spend so much time out of the classroom working. That counts." 3. "I inspire kids and that is so much more important than just grades. It's just too important for you to neglect." Great. All of these have an important thing in common. They can't be quantitatively measured and are thus prone to absurd hyperbole. I can't figure out how many lives a teacher has changed. I can't figure out if the number of hours they say they work outside the classroom is even remotely accurate and I can't figure out how much stress teachers are really under. Subsequently, why would a teacher ever pass up an opportunity to use exaggerations that I can't disprove? So I'm never going to really put much stock in those claims. On the other hand, I can go to google and within two minutes find out about NYC's 20th Public School District, which is where Ranger lives. So unless he teaches in another district.... -48% of students do not graduate high school. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/...tes/index.html -15% of students attend a four year college. http://www.newyorkschools.com/distri...strict-20.html -The average SAT score of those 15 out of 100 students that actually go to college is 1295 (23rd percentile). http://schools.nyc.gov/Accountabilit...ts/default.htm -48.6% of Grade 3-8 students are rated unsatisfactory in English by NY DoE standards. -53.2% of Grade 8 students are rated unsatisfactory in English by NY DoE standards. http://schools.nyc.gov/Accountabilit...athTestResults -31.5% of Grade 3-8 students are rated unsatisfactory in Math by NY DoE standards. -36.1% of Grade 8 students are rated unsatisfactory in Math by NY DoE standards. http://schools.nyc.gov/Accountabilit...athTestResults That's embarrassing. Why do I have to listen about how valuable he and his colleagues are?