I’m a teacher, influencing teens (for the better I hope) everyday. I could be earning more dough doing something else but this job means more than just that
[quote]deanosumo wrote:
I’m a teacher, influencing teens (for the better I hope) everyday. I could be earning more dough doing something else but this job means more than just that[/quote]
True…it means you only have to work 185 days per year.
[quote]ZEB wrote:
deanosumo wrote:
I’m a teacher, influencing teens (for the better I hope) everyday. I could be earning more dough doing something else but this job means more than just that
True…it means you only have to work 185 days per year. :)[/quote]
I think the school year in Japan is quite a bit longer than ours. 220 days or so…
[quote]pookie wrote:
ZEB wrote:
deanosumo wrote:
I’m a teacher, influencing teens (for the better I hope) everyday. I could be earning more dough doing something else but this job means more than just that
True…it means you only have to work 185 days per year.
I think the school year in Japan is quite a bit longer than ours. 220 days or so…[/quote]
Wow! Only 145 days off per year…unbearable conditions I don’t know how anyone can do it…
[quote]KevinKovach wrote:
We have some pretty heated discussions on this board and I think they stem from the fact that everyone here really cares about this (or their) country and the world in general. But what are we as individuals actually doing to improve it, specifically when it comes to terror. Has anyone here with a big mouth actually volunteered or started anything?
If you support the war in Iraq did you join the military, send money, food, or music to troops or did you just paste a yellow “support the troops” ribbon on your car.
If you don’t think the war in Iraq is helping fight terror, what have you done? Have you volunteered to help your State, Local or National government plan and prepare for attacks. I know 100% that the state of Michigan is looking for volunteers to help with different projects.
So, other than bitching about how bad Micheal Moore/Rush Limbaugh is, what have you done?[/quote]
Your question has a bias to it in that it implies that the current system we have (In the US) is not enough or somehow flawed in terms of moving one’s agenda forward to make a difference. In other words, this is what we pay taxes for and why we vote; to change the country we live in or push forward our agenda or ideal of how things should be. The fact is that all these “extracurricular” activities that you mentioned really have little effect in the larger view of the process.
So the correct answer is that if you support the war and want to make sure the solders are taken care of, you write your congressman (or woman) and tell them so. You vote for people who support your views to ensure the money you pay the government goes where it should.
In case anyone hasn’t realized, the government has thousands of social programs and other projects for just about everything you can think of. That is why our taxes are so high.
The point is that the best and most effective way to get you agenda moved forward is not by giving some money to the local charity, holding a food drive, or holding hands and singing around an oak tree with a yellow ribbing on it. It is by working the system we already have in place. In the big picture all those other activities are just feel-good things that really don’t fix anything.
So the question should be; do you write your congressman or woman? Do you vote? Do you pay your share of taxes?
[quote]ZEB wrote:
pookie wrote:
ZEB wrote:
deanosumo wrote:
I’m a teacher, influencing teens (for the better I hope) everyday. I could be earning more dough doing something else but this job means more than just that
True…it means you only have to work 185 days per year.
I think the school year in Japan is quite a bit longer than ours. 220 days or so…
Wow! Only 145 days off per year…unbearable conditions I don’t know how anyone can do it…
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One could only strive to be as hardworking and holy as you devine zeb.
[quote]ZEB wrote:
pookie wrote:
ZEB wrote:
deanosumo wrote:
I’m a teacher, influencing teens (for the better I hope) everyday. I could be earning more dough doing something else but this job means more than just that
True…it means you only have to work 185 days per year.
I think the school year in Japan is quite a bit longer than ours. 220 days or so…
Wow! Only 145 days off per year…unbearable conditions I don’t know how anyone can do it…
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Zeb My girlfriend retired from teaching last year That 145 days a year sounds great until you consider the 3 hours a night homework, grading tests, mandatory continuing education classes. After school functions, parent conferences and that is a list with out giving it to much thought. I would not do the job for even twice the money.
[quote]ZEB wrote:
Wow! Only 145 days off per year…unbearable conditions I don’t know how anyone can do it…
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Well, I work 48 weeks of 5 days, which comes out to 240 days. There are 10 holidays over these 48 weeks, so I actually work 230 days. That means I get 135 days off per year, only 10 less than a Japanese teacher.
Oddly, I don’t find that I get that many days off.
How’bout you? Do you work 340 days or something to be so underwhelmed by 220 days of work?
“I swear by my life and my love for it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
-Ayn Rand, ATLAS SHRUGGED
[quote]ZEB wrote:
pookie wrote:
ZEB wrote:
deanosumo wrote:
I’m a teacher, influencing teens (for the better I hope) everyday. I could be earning more dough doing something else but this job means more than just that
True…it means you only have to work 185 days per year.
I think the school year in Japan is quite a bit longer than ours. 220 days or so…
Wow! Only 145 days off per year…unbearable conditions I don’t know how anyone can do it…
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It’s a struggle.
[quote]pittbulll wrote:
Zeb My girlfriend retired from teaching last year That 145 days a year sounds great until you consider the 3 hours a night homework, grading tests, mandatory continuing education classes. After school functions, parent conferences and that is a list with out giving it to much thought. I would not do the job for even twice the money.
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There is no denying that some teachers do indeed take quite a lot of work home with them.
Then again what about the teachers who give out an assignment in class and spend the next two hours instant messaging their friends on the school computer?
Teachers are good…teachers are bad…
[quote]deanosumo wrote:
It’s a struggle.[/quote]
LOL-
Thanks for taking the comment in the spirit in which it was meant!
In addition to having served as a firefighter in the air force for six years, being deployed twice and (hopefully) melding some younger individuals into better people, just today I volunteered on my day off to cover for some fellow firefighters at another airbase nearby so they could participate in a memorial service for a couple of their own that recently died in an auto accident.