Opus 2014-6: Rejoining the Working Classes

I had to go back to work yesterday. 

Don’t feel sorry for me, or for any other teacher.

Next time a teacher complains about being underpaid, just give them three words:  Christmas, Easter, Summer.  From my reading, most Americans don’t even take the two weeks vacation that is traditional.  Teachers get that just at Christmas, or, as they say in the trade, Winter break.

I am quite willing to take more money.  I can always use it.  I don’t feel like I am getting rich.  At the same time I don’t feel like I am living on starvation wages either. 

We need to get a handle on the economy.  The government is spending too much.  We teachers are lined up at the government trough just like all those regulators in the IRS.  Hold our feet to the fire.  Don’t make exceptions for education.  We have shown that when you throw throw money at us we just develop a thirst for more.  We spent the whole day in meetings to deal with the new Common Core Curriculum (CCC) I have written about.  They raved about the lady who planned the meeting and her staff of five.  It was shared that this was all being paid for with money from the federal government, money earmarked for this new thing from the elitists.  I made the point several times during the day that with the money they spent on this training they could have restored the librarians to all the middle schools on the district.

But no one was listening.

homo unius libri