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NEWSBOY : DELIVERING NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

If you want to join the teaching profession and have the job security, step raises--such as they are, and benefit/pension plan--such as they are, long summer vacation, and the promise of early retirement--which comes with a financial penalty, start applying; you might find yourself a teaching job somewhere. But if you have chosen not to prepare yourself for this particular profession, then why don't you stop judging? Until you perform this not so thankless--teachers get lots of thanks--but certainly not profitable job, you have no qualifications to speak on the subject of teacher frustration. And, no, unless you manage a classroom, grading, planning, meetings, and endless beauracracy, the three teachers in your family do not qualify you to speak on this subject. Along with pay cuts, supply budgets are nonexistent this year; teachers are having to innovate from scratch, and scratch takes time, effort, and sometimes the teacher's money. Furthermore, class sizes have increased considerably; some high school teachers have as many as 140 students--and they're not all well behaved and eager to learn. Moreover, the cuts keep coming. So please, Newsboy, get yourself a teaching job and reap the rewards you so clearly envy. You can enjoy the low pay while you kill yourself to produce test scores and celebrate your secure employment.

Most Fayette teachers are grateful to have jobs, but they wish their job quality wasn't diminishing in front of them.

Get over your ignorance, your arrogance, and your lack of reading comprehension skills already!

I thought what she said was positive, considering. When you do your best it is always a bitter pill when you take a pay cut and the ones responsible, are hardly scathed.

True,the economy is bad and everyone is suffering. But part of the problem with the teachers are bad decisions by some on the BOE.

Many people said don't build those extra schools, we don't need them. But the teachers and taxpayers watched helplessly as they went ahead anyway. Elections were coming up and extra jobs with the schools just seem to flower. And of course, all working at the schools were told to vote for SPLOST. There has been way to much political stuff going on and the teachers and kids have taken a back seat.

People have to wake up and hold these people accountable. Until then, there is no hope. When something this important is happening, the most emotionally damaging thing is to do nothing. If you guys would just take some action, you would feel better, and help your cause.

Considering she just took the biggest pay cut of any teacher in the state (AJC), despite already being on of the lowest paid teachers in the state (AJC), and she was thanking all of the parents who make teaching worthwhile, I would say you are crass, dull and in serious need of improving your reading comprehension.

Read this newsdolt:

Cuts Hit Fayette Teachers Hardest

JMartinez,

Do you have an email address you will share? If not, could you email me at soundof@yahoo.com. I would love to correspond with you. We agree on much . . . would like to discuss more.