Ok, i admit that I’m still bitchin mad about all the usual reasons why PD day is so wrong. Like for example, doctors and nurses manage to have PD days without closing the f#$king hospital and sending patients home.
This PD day is only 1 week after they closed the schools because there was a power failure that didn’t actually affect the schools because the power was restored by 6:30 am which was long before even the early arrival staffers were warming up their cars.
Furthermore, I am disgusted at what gets passed off as PD. While my child’s teacher is coloring pieces of paper and stapling posters to the wall, my son”s “PD Daycare” does stuff with my that is more PD like than her teacher. —Pissed off? I?
This article appears in Sep 25 – Oct 1, 2014.
WTF does PD mean?
PD= Personal Development. In other words, Your Kryptonite.
ANOTHER STUPID REDNECK SPEAKS OUT
“Ok, i admit that I’m still bitchin mad about all the usual reasons why PD day is so wrong.” Pissed off? I?
As one might expect the “reasons” the redneck gives for being so mad about teacher “Professional Days” indicates not only that he is in total ignorance of their purpose but clearly has no idea what education is all about in the first place. His “reasons,” as one might expect, are inter-related.
The fact that hospitals don’t close and “send patients home” is irrelevant to teacher “Professional Days” since the purpose of schools and hospitals are completely distinct. How are they distinct? They are distinct because teaching involves the cultivation of reflective intelligence, imagination and proper habits in students, not just the maintenance of physical health. To cultivate reflective intelligence requires a time away from the classroom, a time for teachers to reflect privatrely and among themselves on current pedagogical theory and practice. However, I realize that the stupid redneck will never understand this.
The second “reason” the stupid redneck gives is not just irrelevant but,as might be expected, simply stupid. He yobbers about a power failure in the school which he then attempts to use as a stick to beat the teachers with. A typically stupid redneck reaction. The fact is that the stupid redneck doesn’t realize that the school has to inform the parents about a possible closing in plenty of time. This is so obvious that one would think that even the stupid redneck would be able to grasp it but sadly one is mistaken. Incoherently, the stupid redneck states that long before that time “the early arriveral staffers were warning up their cars.” If they had already arrived, you stupid redneck, then their cars would already been warmed up. You buffoon.
The third “reason” the sytupid redneck gives relates to “what gets passed off as PD.” How does the stupid redneck know what “gets passed off” as PD? The reason he doesn’t know is that the stupid redneck doesn;t understand the meaning of the phrase “Professional Development.” How does he know what his child’s teacher is doing? How does he know what her purpose is? No, teaching and daycare, like teaching and hospital care, are two different things but the stupid redneck, of course, will never understand that.
It is not so much his ignorance of the things he criticizes but rather the fact that he blurts out his baseless accusations of teachers that brands him as a stupid redneck. Sadly however, the redneck is not alone. There are many others like him. Indeed, one does not have far to lookl.
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I agree, they have 9 weeks in the summer, three weeks at Christmas, 10 days in march, 25 sick days, 4 personal days, snow days, etc…for personal development. How much time do you fucking need to develope personally? Oh, right, you fought hard on the picket line for those days cause only working 6 months of the year for 70,000/year is too stressful to come up with a lesson plan. It just seems so unfair to use one of the 180 days a year you don’t work for PD.
It’s Professional Development.
But, let’s just let our teachers’ knowledge become obsolete. Yeah, because parents wouldn’t bitch when teachers are crappy at their jobs.
By the way: many teachers participate in PD days over the summer as well. If they don’t receive grants to take the PD courses offered, they pay out of their own pockets. Sometimes these courses are at the other end of the province and they pay for accommodations. PD days are important and ensure our kids are getting the best possible advantage from teachers who are continually learning in order to pass this onto their students. Furthermore, PD days consist of all kinds of activities and can even include special presentations and workshops from experts in all subject matters, and there’s much more to it than ‘colouring’ and ‘stapling posters to walls.’
OB’s just mad she/he has to ante up for a sitter.
OB needs to sit down and talk WITH a teacher, not at them; hear what they have to do during the day; and that includes babysitting and dealing with all kinds of screwed up kids; and attitudes brought along from their homelife.
Teachers have to learn as they go too; and PD days allow time to get help with new issues as they arise in class.
They’ll find out that 99% of the teachers wish they could do more for the kids that are there to learn and reach those that aren’t. And what the system AND the PARENT might do to help instead of blaming them for their kids lack of good grades.
I doubt that anyone in the job JUST for summers off would last very long.
I would not want to be a teacher nowadays. The main reason is that i couldn’t deal with the sizable number of wacko parents who fly off the handle at every perceived grievance no matter how slight.
I’m guessing that the real issue that lead to this bitch is not the OB’s scepticism as to the value of PD days but really just the personal inconvenience. The fact that they felt so agrieved by a power failure tells me that they are over-stressed by the parental responsibility they have taken on. They have a hard time dealing with any disruption to their schedule or, possibly, additional costs for child care.
Maybe the bitcher should recognize this, if it is indeed the case, and develop their own coping skills rather than blaming the system for their personal struggles.
Know’m sayin’?
I just think its awesome the amount of effort some mom’s when to make sure their kids could go to school dressed as skanks. Yep, I’d want to be a teacher today.
Yeah, that’s right, I referred to skantily clad tweens as skanks. Unleash the hounds.
Of course teachers have the toughest job in the world. What is it with teachers and nurses going on about how rough they have it. There are a lot more people out there with tougher jobs with less pay. Many wonder if they can afford rent or food or pay their bills. These union complainers should be grateful how good they really have it (very good pay, vacation, sick time, and many other benefits).
Sounds like Survivor’s been submitting bitches, again.
This Is why you should avoid having children…
And I agree with Cranky on the skankiness, especially of young women…
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: Stephen Harper (10/01, 9:26AM)
The (incorrectly) cited number of teacher holidays is not only irrelevant to the justification of Professional Days but is irrelevant to the entire topic of teaching itself. Can you define “teaching” itself? Would you try?
: BreakfastSandwich (9:37AM)
A teacher’s knowledge never becomes “obsolete.” This is to confuse technique with understanding. Teaching is a vocation, not a routine performance that might become “obsolete” one day.
: Umma Gumma (9:54AM)
PD days don’t help teachers to get help with new issues as they arise in class, whatever they might be but rather, it is hoped, to cultivate a deeper understanding of the activity of teaching itself.
: Full of Beans (10:18AM)
Dealing with “wacko parents” is just part of the job. An unpleasant part of the job, perhaps, but nontheless still a part. One must never be cowed by “wacko parents.”
: Cranky (10:55AM)
It is very unprofessional to refer to scantily clad tweens as “skanks.” Can you think of another word?
: Dim Bro Tim (12:10PM)
It depends on how you define “tough.” Would you try? Try to avoid empty generalizations.
: BreakfastSandwich (12:52PM)
Was “Survivor” as stupid as “Pissed off?” Could you explain? Take your time.
: Mr. Meaty (2:23PM)
Why should one avoid having children? That is incoherent.
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How much development is it really when kids these days aren’t even taught basic math because… ohay, every phone and tablet and computer already has a calculator on it.
If I see another TEENAGER who can’t add two numbers together without using their god damn fingers, I’m gonna explode.
They’d better stay off my god damn lawn…
and pull up their friggin pants while they’re at it.
Gentlemen, Gentlemen. I object most fulsomely to your description of children as “skanks”
Everyone knows, the proper term is “prostitots”
People get riled up when they hear of a teacher making the princely salary of –gasp!– $70,000 a year. (That’s a very modest salary for a skilled, educated middle-class professional, by the way.)
I was a teacher for 2 years and would not go back to it for DOUBLE that amount. That’s right, a salary of $140,000 a year would not be enough to drag me back.
I changed careers, I now make nowhere near $70,000, and am as happy as can be.
Anyone who thinks teachers have it easy should try it and then report back about how “easy” it is. Most people wouldn’t last a day.
How wrong am I? Pease write back sooooooon!!!!
Also, this “their job is so hard” shit is just lame. If your job is “hard”, you suck at your job.
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: Stephen Harper (10/01, 8:00PM)
Read my reply over again. You are totally wrong because your initial comment was irrelevant to the issue of teachers’ Professional Development days. Your current comment, on the other hand, lacking as it does any substantive content, is not so much totally wrong but simply vacuous which, I suppose, adds up to the same thing.
I never said that “their job is so hard.” You must discuss this with the person who said it, not me. Now I see that the hour grows late. You must go to bed.
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**YAWN** you bore me!!!
Not nearly as much as you m bore me.
First you must prove how bored I am. You must then prove how bored YOU are. Then you must prove that the level of boredom you feel for me outweighs the level of boredom I feel for you, before making a statement like that. Please attach a graph showing the levels of boredom and the formula you used to arrive at your theory. Remember to show your work as no points will be given for answers with no work shown!! Please write back soon.
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THE BLOWHARD (10/03, 9:38AM)
I can never “prove” how bored I am with you since boredom is an emotion and so cannot be objectively quantified. However, I can say that its origin is to be found in the fact that you are completely mindless, a condition that immediately gives rise to boredom in those possessed of even a minimal degree of intelligence which you clearly lack.
Now, you must go away. Shoo!
A pleasure as always.
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^^ You two are so cute 🙂
SHITMD and MM bicker like an old married couple.
imagine the dinner convo between a married couple consisting of a nurse and teacher. Oh my, it would be a whining pissing contest of epic magnitudes!