Let it go
I'm really tired. I'm not exhausted, but tired. I work Monday-Friday teaching, then Friday nights and Saturdays I have certification class. On top of that I have hours of lesson planning, then lesson modification each night. I have grading, attendance, homework myself for my cert. classes, and I think about my job constantly. How I can get better, how I can get this one student or that other student to do what I need and make class just a little easier to teach. When my students take a test, the first thing I do is grade it because I am so anxious to know if they all passed, if they were well-enough prepared and what I can do better next time.
I worry about my students - because I am a worrier - and when I'm not worrying or telling stories about the crazy shit they do, I'm working. I work 24/7. And yet, I love going to work.
I go into work with a smile on my face. I get germs coughed all over me, kids running up to me to hug me or ask me how to say a certain word, kids who want to share their English stories with me or tell me that I'm their favorite teacher and they don't want to take Social Studies next semester instead of Spanish. My day is great, even if it's never-ending.
So please explain to me how teachers are underworked and overpaid. Please, please explain to me why I'm less deserving of a decent salary than someone who *drops their kid off* with me and goes off to tinker around with computers, or sits behind a desk and draws up wills. I am more or less raising your kids for you, thanks to many many many new laws which fuck the school, and therefore, the teachers, up the ass dry.
How I am I possibly worth less?
Sometimes people suck.
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I worry about my students - because I am a worrier - and when I'm not worrying or telling stories about the crazy shit they do, I'm working. I work 24/7. And yet, I love going to work.
I go into work with a smile on my face. I get germs coughed all over me, kids running up to me to hug me or ask me how to say a certain word, kids who want to share their English stories with me or tell me that I'm their favorite teacher and they don't want to take Social Studies next semester instead of Spanish. My day is great, even if it's never-ending.
So please explain to me how teachers are underworked and overpaid. Please, please explain to me why I'm less deserving of a decent salary than someone who *drops their kid off* with me and goes off to tinker around with computers, or sits behind a desk and draws up wills. I am more or less raising your kids for you, thanks to many many many new laws which fuck the school, and therefore, the teachers, up the ass dry.
How I am I possibly worth less?
Sometimes people suck.
This entry was originally posted at http://foursweatervests.dreamwidth.org/43758.html. Please comment there using OpenID.