While teaching during school hours, of course. Such as "War budget leaves every child behind" How about Anti-war handouts and papers on why you shouldn't join the military, on their front desk, planely visible to all who enter the room? I'd be curious to see where this thread may lead....if it leads anywhere
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I can't do a lot of things , the idea is to prevent us from useing the power of our office to benefit a party or intimidate a client public.
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I'm with Henny and Mikey on this one. I do wonder - and perhaps XO can answer this - doesn't a teacher's contract contain a dress code that would specifically prohibit them from wearing clothing that reflects their personal opinions?
I would expand on Henny's statement a bit: a teacher's job is not only to teach, but to teach students to think for themselves. Inserting one's personal opinion, whether vocally or via a t-shirt slogan, would hinder that process.
Kids go to school to learn math, english, science, etc. They go to College to learn what occupational pursuit they need to absorb themselves in. They don't go to be told how evil Bush is, or how fantastic Bush is. They don't go there to be told how terrible war is. That's not what teachers are payed to do. If they wish to press their 1st amendment right to dissent, by all means do it on THEIR time, not the tax payers. We tell students they're not allowed to wear pro-Christian shirts, or anti-abortion shirts, or the dreaded implied anti-gay t-shirt, despite they aren't being payed, so should have more a right to wear them than teachers.
It is often paid in peanuts,
Kids go to school to learn. There is more to learning than what is written in a math book. There is more to university than an occupational pursuit to absorb onself in.
Why can't children wear pro-Christian shirts or anti-abortion shirts (in many places they can)?
I completely disagree with your compartmentalized view of education. Dull students and dull teachers won't get students anywhere. They need to be challenged. They need to learn and read from people who will challenge their safe middle class notions.
To embrace the ideology of the teacher?? I think not. Especially in Public tax payer schools & universites
Kids go to school to learn. There is more to learning than what is written in a math book. There is more to university than an occupational pursuit to absorb onself in.
Because they're told not to by school administraters and parents threatening to sue the school for being offended. (In most, if not nearly all places, they can't. In many, they have uniforms)
I agree IF they were presented EQUAL education on the issues, EQUAL reference to the props and cons, EQUAL representation of what's being taught.
The whole theme of this thread is related to that point. Teachers wearing Bush Sucks T-shirts, and War budgets leave every child behind is not challenging students to learn, it's propoganda pure & simple
Kids go to school to learn math, english, science, etc. They go to College to learn what occupational pursuit they need to absorb themselves in.
If you can't think for yourself by High School then you're going to embrace some idiots ideology anyway. Seriously, how many people do that? By university if you are embracing ideology so easily then why are you there?
I completely concur (amazing!). Students go to college to learn to learn; occupational preparation is an additional benefit perhaps. This whole idea of going to college to learn a skill is not appropriate. College should develop higher order critical thinking skills. If you want to learn a skill, then that is why there are "technical schools, colleges, institutes". Just be careful; few of those credits will transfer, at least here in Georgia. Why? The technical colleges do not concentrate on developing higher order critical thinking skills. They deal in the "hows", we deal in the "whys".QuoteKids go to school to learn math, English, science, etc. They go to College to learn what occupational pursuit they need to absorb themselves in. They don't go to be told how evil Bush is, or how fantastic Bush is. They don't go there to be told how terrible war is. That's not what teachers are payed to do. If they wish to press their 1st amendment right to dissent, by all means do it on THEIR time, not the tax payers. We tell students they're not allowed to wear pro-Christian shirts, or anti-abortion shirts, or the dreaded implied anti-gay t-shirt, despite they aren't being payed, so should have more a right to wear them than teachers.
Kids go to school to learn. There is more to learning than what is written in a math book.
There is more to university than an occupational pursuit to absorb onself in.
The past tense of "pay" is "paid" not "payed."
Education is more than rote memorization and basic studies Sirs. Why can't children wear pro-Christian shirts or anti-abortion shirts (in many places they can)?
I completely disagree with your compartmentalized view of education. Dull students and dull teachers won't get students anywhere. They need to be challenged. They need to learn and read from people who will challenge their safe middle class notions.
I`m not even sure teacher don`t work in the summer time.
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Most teachers have the option of working in the summer. It is often paid in peanuts, and NEVER time and a half for overtime. Most often it is less than the per diem paid during the rest of the year.
At my university, I can teach two classes for $4000, four days per week. The full teaching loads during the rest of the year is a starting salary of $32000 (plus medical benefits and a vested 403b) for ten classes. $4000 for two classes is the equivalent of $20K per year, with zero benefits. This amount has been the same for the past ten years.
Being as I have a limited number of summers, I have chosen to not teach in the summer. If I were worse at investing my money, I suppose I'd need to teach in the summers, but luckily, I have a choice.