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In reply to the discussion: Teacher’s resignation letter: ‘My profession … no longer exists’ [View all]AnneD
(15,774 posts)37. Tavalon...
You are spot on. I use to say I had the best of both worlds as a School Nurse. Now I really can't claim that. I actually can retire and think I soon will. I won't retire because I cannot do the job but because I cannot stand what it has become.
I am deeply concerned for both the new Nurses and new teachers coming into their professions. It is all managed by bean counters who don't give a rat's arse about anything more that how cheaply one can make a widget (student) or repair a widget (patient).
If I had to educate my daughter in today's enviroment, I would tinker with my work schedual and home shcool my child.
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Now that is a very good option... "good teachers to start their own schools"
Sekhmets Daughter
Apr 2013
#19
Great idea. Teachers should start cooperative schools just as workers have taken over factories.
AdHocSolver
Apr 2013
#24
The ill-conceived education policies are exactly what our power elite want.
AdHocSolver
Apr 2013
#23
The computer can be programmed to look for special phrases and "buzz" words.
AdHocSolver
Apr 2013
#22
We keep doing this, and keep complaining about the intellectual stagnation of our kids
Scootaloo
Apr 2013
#9
Sounds like a useless, mind-numbing, creativity-destroying, drudge work assignment.
AdHocSolver
Apr 2013
#29