@DanaPalubiak Jen is not the child's mother. Getting the child to school on time is not the teacher's job.
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Just a stupid drummer. Avi is me.
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78 tardies. Jen is outraged.
At least he came. He could have stayed home.
The system isn't broken because kids are late. It's broken because teachers like Jen would rather tweet about it than figure out why and help him overcome.
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@dst6n01 What most people say is "sarcasam" is not actually sarcasam.
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Admin: we know teachers hate xyz event, but we think the kids deserve it, so we're going to do it anyway.
Also admin: why is everyone calling out on the day of xyz?
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@FixingEducation As soon as you start paying different subjects on different scales you immediately create a caste system within the school.
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Teachers:
Should high-demand positions like math, science, and special education receive higher pay because they’re harder to fill?
Or should all teachers stay on the same pay scale regardless of subject?
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@BowTiedKong Teachers love coffee mugs that read stuff like #1 Teacher and 2 Teach is 2 Touch Life 4 Ever.
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My sons school is having teacher appreciation week
Have to get two of them something unique for each day of the week
They are great, happy to, but since when is this a thing?
Usually just give them something nice at the end of the year , do not recall A WEEK
GIF
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@tome835 @BowTiedKong The salary is an exchange of money and health insurance for a teacher's time (7.5 hrs) and expertise.
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@BowTiedKong As a bitter, middle aged, male teacher, I don't want any of the cutesy stuff, or more crap with the school logo on it.
Also, we don't all drink coffee. If you want to give something a gift card to someplace like target or Amazon is the safest bet
Or something practical. G2 pens
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@adamboxer1 Our school tried to implement exit tickets for every class.
Then the union had to explain to them that 30 kids x 3 periods a day (block schedule) x 5 days a week is 450 exit tickets per week for a teacher to look at.
This idea didn't last long.
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Exit Tickets are firmly on my list of "well intentioned but generally bad ideas"
North Landesman@MrLandesman
Exit tickets might be misplaced at the end of lessons. Students shouldn't start independent practice until formative assessment. From @GTavernetti
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@educator4ever36 Not all of them no, but plenty of them are. And this is why ALL educators should be special educated
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Two things are being conflated here- the rigor of education and the blending of special education and non special education students.
1. Quality education is unrelated to this blending. We have crap curriculum and lowered expectations.
The Principal’s Office@educator4ever36
This teacher says what schools won’t tell you. Unless your child is in advanced content or lucky enough not to be in an inclusion class, the rigor of general education has disappeared in favor of the special education students. I do not blame the teachers for this. I do not blame
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DR Horton, Lennar, and the big home builders etc are a *necessary* part of any solution where the goal is to lower the cost of housing.
They’re incomparably good at building that kind of product, inexpensive. And they build more than anyone else. By a LOT.
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That’s exactly what Austin has done. And continues to do
Yes some infill (which developers like @americanhousing are doing) … but a TON of small, inexpensive detached homes outside the City
Hayden@the_transit_guy
“The answer to LA’s housing crisis is to build single family homes in Bakersfield”
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@Act_Forward @JonahDispatch Does the plumbers union put customers first? Union exist for the benefit and protection of its members.
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@JonahDispatch Given how much we spend per pupil compared to every other country in the world - funding is not the problem.
The teachers union exists purely to end any attempt to improve eduction and never puts students first.
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So many of our problems could be fixed by eliminating teachers unions.
John Collins@Logically_JC
So many of our problems could be fixed by properly funding public education.
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@TripperDay @JonahDispatch It’s not the “free market”.
The employEES are the government.
The employERS are the government.
I don’t think any libertarian minded people have a problem with private workers banding together to push for better conditions.
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@sisifomaximo @didier_paul @JonahDispatch Please name a union whose primary focus is not the dues paying members.
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@didier_paul @JonahDispatch Teachers Unions might be useful if their primary interest was students.
We have given in to teachers unions for many decades, and student educational outcomes have not improved.
It's time to eliminate teachers unions.
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@TrustIsEarnd @didier_paul @JonahDispatch No, the City's mismanagement of the pension fund is the problem.
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@didier_paul @JonahDispatch Come to Chicago, where teacher pensions are about to bankrupt the entire city.
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@ArtGary24476 @didier_paul @JonahDispatch It is illegal to use union dues for political purposes. And political funds are raised separately
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@dr_swa6 @didier_paul @JonahDispatch The money un a teacher's pay check is theirs to spend how they see fit. You can no more tell them not to pay you dues than you can tell them which grocery store to shop at.
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@didier_paul @JonahDispatch All public sector unions have a built-in conflict of interest. Citizens forced to pay taxes; taxes pay teachers. Teachers forced to pay unions. Ergo, taxpayers pay unions who use the money to lobby legislators to benefit union members at the expense of taxpayers.
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