I Am A Teacher

I am a teacher with 34 years experience. I teach High School. I taught three years in middle school and the rest in High School math. I see my students for an average of 3 hours a week for 36 weeks a year. That makes about 108 hours and that is equivalent to having them for 40 hours a week on a job for 2 weeks and 3.5 days. It used to be much more before politicians began to save big bucks on your kids in public school. Of course it was done with smoke and mirrors and the general public didn't know what was happening to them. Claims were made that it would be better this way and kids would get more time to do their work when in fact they would get a lot less. I learned that most people will believe the people who claim to be experts. I have 200 different students for the same amount of time and if you can multiply hours times the total students I teach 21600 individual hours in a year. Now let's figure how much it cost for day care. The average day care is $4.00 an hour or $200 a week for about 50 hours. So without teaching my subjects and just keeping them busy and entertained I would make, 21,600 x 4 and that equals $86,400 per year. Teachers start in many states in the $30,000 range. We have to deal with much larger children, mentally ill, paranoid, schizo, bipolar, low IQ, High IQ, poverty stricken, very wealthy, spoiled, abused and everything in between. Most of the time we have all of this in a class of 30 right in front of us all day. We have to be masters of at least 3 academic subjects and psychiatrist with groups of 30 instead of 5. I have to psyche each one individually, motivate, inspire, cheer up, engage, and keep the attention of each one every minute and every hour they are with me. Sounds like a Fairy Tale huh? It isn't. I was born with magic powers to entertain, be witty, discipline, defuse and entice your child. I do. I am a wizard. I am hated by many now. I am the farmer of great minds. I feed and grow them with my wits and toil. The adults are jealous. I have been asked to do all of this and then I am hated because some of the kids can go home and say great things about me that they wouldn't say about their parents. If you can do the math in this article and you can read it, thank the wizards that were in your life especially the ones who went to battle with you and won you over. Socrates was killed teaching his students to question. Not everyone wants you to figure out their secrets. It is their secrets that fool you. Could it be that one party in this country supports the keepers of secrets and the other party supports the finders of secrets and we don't know who to believe? The only way you can know who tells you a lie is you must first know the truth yourself. That is why we have education. Watering down education awards the keepers of secrets and the merchants of lies. taking away time and people and other resources from education weakens an entire nation and the world. The words of the great speakers of truths are those who spoke what they wrote and put it in a public place to be looked at by the millions so it would be tested over and over again to see if it could pass and pass again the tests of truth. Writers are courageous beings. Learners supply us with the great ones. Education teaches us the time tested truths that we cling to and when one of these is finally proved wrong it can cause huge social, religious and political change. I am a teacher of 34 years. I fight battles with the human minds and speak truths that I dare others to destroy. In that way I am a danger to some. Education isn't for everyone because everyone isn't for education. Research and education find lies as they find truth. Beware. Boredom doesn't survive learning because learning is to discover new and lasting things and we call that discovery. Discovery continually uncovers and marvels us with newness that drives us forward with interest and is the reason we have intrinsic curiosity. These are historical times. These are dangerous times. Education is rearing its head and the truth it uncovers is often brutal. It scares powerful leaders and overthrows tyranny. These things are happening in our days. Does everyone really want us educated or is it like I proclaim. You will be told what you should know and not know. You will teach what your are told to teach and you will not teach what they say not to teach.