My wife and I are both high school teachers. Driving home after work today we had a discussion about the weak men who are the fathers of our students. We have students who fall apart over little things that in our day, we handled matter of factly because we were taught how do deal with adversity, not run from it. Nearly every student we have that is doing well in school and life come from intact families with fathers who actually are involved raising their children with high standards.
We also see this in the younger teachers. We did not become teachers to get rich. We did it because we want to do something worthwhile and helping others. We both have a love of science and enjoy sharing that with our students. We actually spend time planning our lessons, developing our curriculum to meet the needs of our students. We get to school an hour early so we can be ready when the bell rings. It gives time to help students who drop by before school. At this time of year, we have students just hang out in our rooms because it is cold outside. We stay about an hour after school to do what needs to be done and to be available to students and parents who want to meet with us.
The younger teachers, especially maies, arrive to school a minute or two before the bell rings and are racing the students out of the parking lot at the end of the school day. They just give students worksheet after worksheet and tell them if you need help, looking it up on the Internet. They avoid all parent meetings an at times an administrator has to drop by just as the bell rings at the end of the day with the parent and say, we are having this meeting now. They are there just for the paycheck and complain it is not enough. We are likely not paid what we are worth. I could get a higher paying job in the private sector. We are paid by taxpayers and most of our students come from families that have a household income less than half of teachers. That is just the nature of the job. So it sends a bad message to say students are first and then complain the pay is too low, they are worth more. I have told a few, if you are worth more then get a job that pays what you think you are worth. The newer teachers mostly do not show professionalism.
If we were raising our son right now, he would be in private school.
God bless you both; sounds like you are part of the solution. Just want to add two issues that are corroding the ability of people like you to educate our kids. One, the negative influence of teacher's unions, two, progressive politics. By every measure of performance, students are doing worse each year. Instead of focusing on core subjects, our kids are subjected to Socio-Emotional Learning, which means teaching modules on racism, LGBTQI, and gender, instead of the three "R's". When questioned, our unions say, more money! When we point out the fact that we are already spending 50 percent more on each student- now at $18/K each year in WI- they blame parochial and charter schools. WI Dept of Public Instruction's modules were supposed to raise test scores for black students, instead they have dropped everyone's scores. White kids' reading proficiency scores: 31 percent at grade level, black kids', 4 percent!! By any measure DEI initiatives have failed us all and put our nation's future at risk. My father was a teacher for 30 years, is a hard left progressive, and was a union bargaining negotiator...
How fortunate we are to have someone like you to take the time to research and analyze a situation in our society, turn it upside down, and offer solutions. But separating those weak ones from the dems/libs is the difficult part of the solution. Again, a sharable treatise of a subject. Thanks for doing the work, John.
This is the real struggle of our times as it pertains to our future. The Doug Imhoff's, Tim Walz's and the Will Ferrells and their protestations and angst about "toxic" masculinity disgust me and move me to scorn. Our culture wants to elevate only beta males, and attack alphas to punish "those chauvinists who degrade and underpay" women. Trump's election is a positive event for our nation; yet beta males like Jonah Goldberg moan that "Trump has gelded the GOP," and "it's better to have a dissident member of your own party in office than someone from the other party." Apparently Jonah missed the corrosive effect of party traitors like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinsinger being used to label the Jan 6 hearings as "bi-partisan." Weak men are sneaky and hard to fix; they are best off ignored.
My wife and I are both high school teachers. Driving home after work today we had a discussion about the weak men who are the fathers of our students. We have students who fall apart over little things that in our day, we handled matter of factly because we were taught how do deal with adversity, not run from it. Nearly every student we have that is doing well in school and life come from intact families with fathers who actually are involved raising their children with high standards.
We also see this in the younger teachers. We did not become teachers to get rich. We did it because we want to do something worthwhile and helping others. We both have a love of science and enjoy sharing that with our students. We actually spend time planning our lessons, developing our curriculum to meet the needs of our students. We get to school an hour early so we can be ready when the bell rings. It gives time to help students who drop by before school. At this time of year, we have students just hang out in our rooms because it is cold outside. We stay about an hour after school to do what needs to be done and to be available to students and parents who want to meet with us.
The younger teachers, especially maies, arrive to school a minute or two before the bell rings and are racing the students out of the parking lot at the end of the school day. They just give students worksheet after worksheet and tell them if you need help, looking it up on the Internet. They avoid all parent meetings an at times an administrator has to drop by just as the bell rings at the end of the day with the parent and say, we are having this meeting now. They are there just for the paycheck and complain it is not enough. We are likely not paid what we are worth. I could get a higher paying job in the private sector. We are paid by taxpayers and most of our students come from families that have a household income less than half of teachers. That is just the nature of the job. So it sends a bad message to say students are first and then complain the pay is too low, they are worth more. I have told a few, if you are worth more then get a job that pays what you think you are worth. The newer teachers mostly do not show professionalism.
If we were raising our son right now, he would be in private school.
God bless you both; sounds like you are part of the solution. Just want to add two issues that are corroding the ability of people like you to educate our kids. One, the negative influence of teacher's unions, two, progressive politics. By every measure of performance, students are doing worse each year. Instead of focusing on core subjects, our kids are subjected to Socio-Emotional Learning, which means teaching modules on racism, LGBTQI, and gender, instead of the three "R's". When questioned, our unions say, more money! When we point out the fact that we are already spending 50 percent more on each student- now at $18/K each year in WI- they blame parochial and charter schools. WI Dept of Public Instruction's modules were supposed to raise test scores for black students, instead they have dropped everyone's scores. White kids' reading proficiency scores: 31 percent at grade level, black kids', 4 percent!! By any measure DEI initiatives have failed us all and put our nation's future at risk. My father was a teacher for 30 years, is a hard left progressive, and was a union bargaining negotiator...
How fortunate we are to have someone like you to take the time to research and analyze a situation in our society, turn it upside down, and offer solutions. But separating those weak ones from the dems/libs is the difficult part of the solution. Again, a sharable treatise of a subject. Thanks for doing the work, John.
This is the real struggle of our times as it pertains to our future. The Doug Imhoff's, Tim Walz's and the Will Ferrells and their protestations and angst about "toxic" masculinity disgust me and move me to scorn. Our culture wants to elevate only beta males, and attack alphas to punish "those chauvinists who degrade and underpay" women. Trump's election is a positive event for our nation; yet beta males like Jonah Goldberg moan that "Trump has gelded the GOP," and "it's better to have a dissident member of your own party in office than someone from the other party." Apparently Jonah missed the corrosive effect of party traitors like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinsinger being used to label the Jan 6 hearings as "bi-partisan." Weak men are sneaky and hard to fix; they are best off ignored.