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The teacher that insists on politically correct thought from their students or approves of trendy immorality is not really a teacher but a state sponsored propagandist or an irresponsible parent. If the teacher has a classroom of students without “receptive minds,” the function they are performing is not “education.” It is called “daycare,” which seems to be enough for a high percentage of students and their parents.
How does all of that lead up to the issue of teacher pay? Well, the successful home school teacher doesn’t get paid, yet their students perform very well on standardized tests and in life. Private school teachers, such as in Christian schools, are paid but a pittance — with few if any benefits — compared to the current levels of government school teachers; however, it is an easy thing to make a case that their students excel in national testing and in life. Sunday school teachers don’t get paid and the students who learn for the love of it don’t get paid — yet become some of the most accomplished individuals we know.
So when we talk about teacher pay, we are not talking about education.
Via Kenneth, Crystal Coast Tea Party Patriots
This is an excellent post Brock. It is only now when I think back to the education I received in my youth, that I realize how lucky I was.
ReplyDeleteTeachers, who taught for the love of teaching, as well as nurturing the minds of their students.
That most certainly was their reward, for it was not wages, of that I am sure of.
I base that on the fact that most of my teachers, if their age allowed either farmed, worked as mechanics, or in the oil fields when summer break came around.
I can not recall any of them laying on the beach in Aruba, or the French Riviera as I over heard a couple teachers in their 30's recently telling each other of their summer plans.
I feel for the children of tomorrow in public schools.
T
Exactly. I remember one teacher who taught at a public school and then worked on the highways laying asphalt in the summer.
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