tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post32412666315501382..comments2023-10-23T09:23:22.051-04:00Comments on Your Schools: CarolinaCAN targets N.C. teacher pay, tenureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-52634785955141071812013-07-10T15:42:58.053-04:002013-07-10T15:42:58.053-04:00Treated like a professional dont pay the mortgage ...Treated like a professional dont pay the mortgage young teacher.<br /><br />I need to be paid a fair wage for my services. Losing tens of thousands these last 5 years, doing the work of 1.75 teachers and the total lack of respect from administration has left my little to no options.<br /><br />I agree that protests and "sick outs" could have an effect. Fifteen years ago all teachers wanted was smaller class size. Now you have almost twice the class size with salary and benefits taken away never to return.<br /><br />All political factions of teachers should unite in this "common goal of our common cores"<br /><br />STRIKE !!!!!!!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-15837344652144518852013-07-10T15:22:58.590-04:002013-07-10T15:22:58.590-04:00Teachers , Hold your board and super accountable. ...Teachers , Hold your board and super accountable. Any sane tax payer would. The current crew must be voted out as they have managed POORLY for the last 4 years. Joyce, Richard , Eric and Rhonda must be given walking papers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-6408368195239557062013-07-10T12:47:02.369-04:002013-07-10T12:47:02.369-04:00When I left the private sector 5 years ago to purs...When I left the private sector 5 years ago to pursue teaching I thought I knew what I was getting into. My parents are teachers so I never expected to become wealthy but what I do recall was the general respect teachers were given for their service. I'm not interested in pay increases or bonuses. I can live with my salary but I have no tolerance for those who wish to attack the teaching profession. People like Julie Kowal attack teacher in states like NC because they are easy targets with little to no legislative support. Julie is not interested in supporting students or our community but instead hope to forge a political career or work for private corporations that sell tests, textbooks and consulting to States wasting mass amounts of public funding.<br /><br />Educrats and Law makers want to blame our ills of society on someone so they have found the perfect scapegoat: teachers. The only problem is that in contemporary education teachers are not the ones making major decisions and our input is rarely considered. When the people who are actually educating your children become the ones who create education policy then feel free to blame them. <br /><br />As a teacher, I don't want your money, awards or recognition. I simply want to be treated like the educated professional that I am and allowed to do the work that I am trained and fully capable to perform.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-32944584739871286472013-07-10T12:29:56.558-04:002013-07-10T12:29:56.558-04:00with a common goal, sorrywith a common goal, sorryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-25545451451482704002013-07-10T12:07:38.218-04:002013-07-10T12:07:38.218-04:00I think it is time to start organizing. We can hav...I think it is time to start organizing. We can have “sick outs” march on Raleigh and protest during nationally televised events, like panther games, NASCAR hall of fame inductees’ ext… With social media, Blogs and post like this a movement can be started. I am a conservative by nature but I believe in the constitution and we have a right to protest and be heard. I am tired, I have student loans and a family to support. My degree does not lend itself to the privets sector. I am out of options and ready for Change. Look at the protest all over the world. If they can do it we can do it. <br />Good Idea!!!!!!! We can have “teach NC Tuesday”!! No political affiliations, all teachers of all stripes with the common a goal. Tea Party teachers with occupy teachers and everything in between.... <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-77254543786523517822013-07-10T11:52:12.222-04:002013-07-10T11:52:12.222-04:00CarolinaCAN another reason teacher should stay awa...CarolinaCAN another reason teacher should stay away from NC…..<br />Good luck teachers :(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-52385244776640089512013-07-10T11:14:41.871-04:002013-07-10T11:14:41.871-04:00STRIKE!!!!!!!!!!STRIKE!!!!!!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-24799529596355501452013-07-10T10:58:43.082-04:002013-07-10T10:58:43.082-04:00NC public employees are not allowed to strike acco...NC public employees are not allowed to strike according to some law that was created during segregation. The powers to be in NC where scared that public employees (especially teachers) would join the civil rights moment and protest. <br />I think it is time to start organizing. We can have “sick outs” march on Raleigh and protest during nationally televised events, like panther games, NASCAR hall of fame inductees’ ext… With social media, Blogs and post like this a movement can be started. I am a conservative by nature but I believe in the constitution and we have a right to protest and be heard. I am tired, I have student loans and a family to support. My degree does not lend itself to the privets sector. I am out of options and ready for Change. Look at the protest all over the world. If they can do it we can do it. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-81431664548190324512013-07-10T10:43:01.638-04:002013-07-10T10:43:01.638-04:00Principals and Administrators HAVE been getting bo...Principals and Administrators HAVE been getting bonuses on the backs of FRONTLINE teachers for YEARS!<br /><br />Teacher of the Month might receive a $20 gift certificate if that.<br /><br />STRIKE !!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-61753961322783697362013-07-10T07:09:33.459-04:002013-07-10T07:09:33.459-04:00Read The Death and Life of the Great American Scho...Read The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch. You will get where we have gone and what is coming. This book scares me. The sinister agenda of the educrats and their bedfellow corps is ruining education. I am glad to be retired and substituting. At least I can walk away at the end of the day for my pitiful compensaiton.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-27574571257273644882013-07-09T19:09:30.699-04:002013-07-09T19:09:30.699-04:009:28, 4:24,
For all your reasons, I second th...9:28, 4:24,<br /> For all your reasons, I second the emotions and left this year. Nothing changed from 1976 to 2013 except career (Non TFA) teachers walk as pariahs, a target by all political, religious, and "change" organizations. Administration and BOE became obsessed with ladder climbing, unresponsive, unqualified, and bowing to special interest and self serving projects. But you knew that.<br /> I'm truly amazed that another fund sucking organization clone purports to save education from poverty by throwing an inexperienced overzealous<br />"expert' at this system. CMS has indeed killed both public opinion and employee morale. To any teacher considering North Carolina, especially a young person, the new education motto is "46th and sinking fast."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-69000447186192027922013-07-09T16:24:59.844-04:002013-07-09T16:24:59.844-04:00If you dont Like It then Leave It
The BofE and He...If you dont Like It then Leave It<br /><br />The BofE and Heath MOrrison do not give a damn about teachers. They care ONLY about the Federal Funds that they can get to come into CMS. Everything else is a sham!<br /><br />Get another job, STRIKE, or shut up.<br /><br />Your salary and benefits will NEVER change in this county and state.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-72589360759091614612013-07-09T15:28:37.211-04:002013-07-09T15:28:37.211-04:00I, for one, am tired of the witch hunt! I was goin...I, for one, am tired of the witch hunt! I was going to teach 5-6 more years, well past my ability to retire. But the current "anti-teacher" atmosphere has pretty much made me decide to teach two more years and then leave. I will either apply to teach in another state and move, or find another job where my skills and my abilities are appreciated.<br /><br />Low salary is one thing. I never thought I'd get rich in the teaching profession. Teaching is something I always wanted to do and have enjoyed. There's nothing more rewarding than seeing that "Aha moment!" on a students face when they get something.<br /><br />And I, and a great number of teachers, have been loyal to NC. That's it Raleigh. Do you hear me? Loyal to the state that we live in! Loyal to our communities, loyal to our schools and to our students.<br /><br />Loyalty no longer pays off.<br /><br />To constantly hear people who have never set foot in a classroom bash and denigrate teachers, it has gotten to be too much.<br /><br />When you have:<br />Taught a classroom of 40-45 students, trying to reach them day in and day out, then I'll consider you worthy to criticize my profession.<br /><br />When you've spend $500 or more per year of your personal income on supplies and equipment for you classroom, then I'll consider you worthy to criticize my profession.<br /><br />When you've stayed after school for meetings, school events or parent conferences while missing your daughter's dance recital or your son's band performance, then I'll consider you worthy to criticize my profession.<br /><br />When you've been cursed by both students and parents alike with language that would make a sailor blush, then I'll consider you worthy to criticize my profession.<br /><br />When you get to the school building in the dark and leave well after dark and realize you've put in 13 straight hours everyday that week, then I'll consider you worthy to criticize my profession.<br /><br />When you've held a crying student in your arms because she's afraid to go home because home is a scary place, then I'll consider you worthy to criticize my profession.<br /><br />When you understand the instinct to protect a classroom of students just like the teachers in Newtown CT did, then I'll consider you worthy to criticize my profession.<br /><br />Add to that the ability to write a coherent lesson plan, deliver it in a meaningful and creative way, grade the papers of some 200 students that you see over the course of two days, write PEP's, IEP's, schedule conferences, take constant inservice training to be a better teacher, and manage all sorts of other record keeping then I'll consider you worthy to criticize my profession.<br /><br />Oh, and add on another full-time summer job to make ends meet.<br /><br />Then I'll consider you worthy to criticize my profession.<br /><br />Two years. Then I'm out. Replace me with a Teach for American person. You'll get 5 years from that person. Then they'll be gone too.<br /><br />But remember, you got more than 25 years from me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-11954979520824874632013-07-09T15:26:16.594-04:002013-07-09T15:26:16.594-04:00So your last comment on buying into a school board...So your last comment on buying into a school board race is interesting. Might be better for them to join the Chamber and have influence via that avenue. Since they are already working with P-LIFT I will have to punt on this one. They are not really linked to CMS yet. I am sure they will be soon. I bet Bill Anderson is watching as they may take his Gorman money in the future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-33471944235737128692013-07-09T13:36:33.905-04:002013-07-09T13:36:33.905-04:00Julie Kowal, is an unwilling (she only knows what ...Julie Kowal, is an unwilling (she only knows what she has been told) hack for the privatization of schools, the same thing is happening in Brittan. Anything for a buck!! The global elite are now taking control of schools. Keep schools local!!! Local people with local control, Not county, not sate and sure as hell not country. Good luck America.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-75821575892557836792013-07-09T12:19:54.337-04:002013-07-09T12:19:54.337-04:00States, sorry.. Eating lunch :)States, sorry.. Eating lunch :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-83300368089794963862013-07-09T12:17:55.223-04:002013-07-09T12:17:55.223-04:00There is not tenure in CMS. Please look at the sa...There is not tenure in CMS. Please look at the sates policy (It is on line) There is no argument here. This is not a big city with teacher unions. Please educate yourselves….Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-84950116715009719992013-07-09T12:02:40.754-04:002013-07-09T12:02:40.754-04:00North Carolina and Charlotte Mecklenburg schools i...North Carolina and Charlotte Mecklenburg schools is and always will be a place for teachers to come, get experience and move back to where they came from. The better paying sates usually want teachers to gain two years of experience before hiring. This smart, teachers usually do not stay in the profession for long. 5 years is the average, I think. I had a friend who graduated from a good school in Pennsylvania and wanted to stay and teach in Pennsylvania. A principal told her to move back to charlotte, teach for a couple of years and then re-apply. <br />Even if the top 10% of teacher where given a bonus in CMS, teachers would leave. The base salaries are too low.<br />11:32 AM, <br />Teachers have been feeling the pain across the country. There have been teacher layoffs, pay cuts. CMS has a pay freeze, 200 dollars was taken off teacher’s last check during the initial phase of the crises and benefits have been cut. A “government employee” is a broad term. If you look at the statics nationally, all people with degrees have been doing better “great recession”. Do not just read headlines…..<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-7834432930530026802013-07-09T11:56:52.412-04:002013-07-09T11:56:52.412-04:00Heath Morrison is not going to like the reform pro...Heath Morrison is not going to like the reform proposals of this group, except the idea of higher teacher pay. <br /><br />Heath is against merit pay and tenure reform. This may be because he realizes the BOE is against education reform, and the BOE will decide Heath's fate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-62619956215630545602013-07-09T11:50:21.788-04:002013-07-09T11:50:21.788-04:00Follow the money folks. Nothing new to see here e...Follow the money folks. Nothing new to see here except another front for the usual education "reformers" and those who make a buck off charters, etc. But Teapublicans while gladly soak up their advise and campaign bucks to screw the teachers.Bobby Padgetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00972824497488672541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-43828442216030367282013-07-09T11:33:16.366-04:002013-07-09T11:33:16.366-04:0010,000 dollars a year less and crummy benefits, th...10,000 dollars a year less and crummy benefits, this group does not need to waist there efforts hear. Teachers are already brokenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-24219079159459033812013-07-09T11:32:10.799-04:002013-07-09T11:32:10.799-04:00News flash!!
EVERYONE in America is now doing mor...News flash!!<br /><br />EVERYONE in America is now doing more work for less pay than they were before the economic meltdown. <br /><br />And as if that wasn't enough, companies have started telling their full time employees that they are now part time with no benefits. (Thank you Obamacare)In addition companies are doing every thing they can to not hire new full time employees. <br /><br />Any one who doubts this should look at the Gallup numbers on U6 unemployment and compare them to the Governemnt's bogus U6 numbers.<br /><br />It is about time that government employees started feeling the pain. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-58842828439791979192013-07-09T11:29:02.336-04:002013-07-09T11:29:02.336-04:00Golly. I wish you guys were in charge. As a teache...Golly. I wish you guys were in charge. As a teacher all I would have to do is make sure my students score better on a test at the end of the year than the beginning of the year? <br /><br />I can quit taking attendance? I don't have to keep records and do grades? I don't have to attend any teacher meetings after school? If you get scheduled in my 7:15 AM class I will tell you to show up at 2:15 after school. If you can't make it, then get your schedule changed and get out of my 7:15 class. No more IEPs? No more PEPs? No more advising clubs? No more field trips? No more coaching necessary to keep my job? No more bus duty? No more lunch duty? No more duties? No more recovery? No more reporting of recovery hours? No more mind-numbing training on whatever absurd thing is mandated by NCDPI, CMS, or judge? The only thing that matters is the score on the test at the end of the year? <br /><br />It sounds too good to be true. Oh, it is not true. Oh, well. See you next August. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-75268814974218934702013-07-09T11:28:28.774-04:002013-07-09T11:28:28.774-04:00Its sad when a two-teacher household where both pa...Its sad when a two-teacher household where both parties hold masters degrees need to search around for side jobs just to make ends meet. NC is literally driving their best and brightest away. A good friend of mine who taught here for 10 years moved back to Ohio. There she is treated like a professional rather than us teachers here who are treated like whipped dogs. $38K a year here versus $67K in Ohio. You want to know where NC's best and brightest are going??? Now that sounds like a wonderful math problem that the Gates foundation can put on a standardized test.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-15834831373079811952013-07-09T11:22:32.918-04:002013-07-09T11:22:32.918-04:00CMS is a bad market for teachers.
CMS is a bad market for teachers.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com