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Subject: Are teachers shown enough respect?

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In general, not just the class room.

Do you think that teachers (pre-college, or K through 12 in the US) are shown enough respect by the society at large?

  • 12.16.2012 11:08 AM PDT

No.

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No. And everyone thinks their job is easy, while in reality, it's not.

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Why don't we just share the hill?

Certainly not in the class here in Scotland.

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yeah.

  • 12.16.2012 11:09 AM PDT

No. How is this even a question?

  • 12.16.2012 11:10 AM PDT

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By society, no.

Though I've had a couple great teachers, and all of the students and school administration had respected them greatly.

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I don't know about respect, but I'm not sure I agree with everyone that thinks they should be paid a lot more. They have nearly half the year off and while dealing with kids would be annoying it's not exactly a job that requires a very difficult or rare skill set.

  • 12.16.2012 11:10 AM PDT

Studies show that men think about sex every 7 seconds. I do my best to eat hotdogs in under 6, just so things don't get weird.

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Posted by: Alec9224
I don't know about respect, but I'm not sure I agree with everyone that thinks they should be paid a lot more. They have nearly half the year off and while dealing with kids would be annoying it's not exactly a job that requires a very difficult or rare skill set.


Is that all they do? Just deal with kids?

  • 12.16.2012 11:11 AM PDT


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Posted by: Alec9224
I don't know about respect, but I'm not sure I agree with everyone that thinks they should be paid a lot more. They have nearly half the year off and while dealing with kids would be annoying it's not exactly a job that requires a very difficult or rare skill set.


Is that all they do? Just deal with kids?
Don't forget the parents that are very protective and insulting toward those teachers and the job they're doing.

  • 12.16.2012 11:12 AM PDT

We have too many teachers for useless subjects, and many teachers are overpaid. Teachers also achieve tenure too easily.

  • 12.16.2012 11:14 AM PDT

hell no.

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It depends on the teachers, if they are strict then no. But if the teacher can have a laugh with the students then yes.

I wasn't a teacher but I was an IT tech in a school and a lot of the teachers could have a laugh with the kids, once class going as far as calling their pregnant teacher a MILF and her laughing.

I also had a laugh with the students because I was around the same age as them, also the other 2 guys I worked with where called horrible and scary so I ended up being the nice one.

However when I went school I had few strict teachers but they knew when to have a joke which everybody appreciated.

  • 12.16.2012 11:14 AM PDT

No. That's part of why we can't get the best students to become teachers. Not enough pay and not enough respect. It's not considered a very prestigious job here.

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Call me Stu

In general no

Around where I am yes they are respected.

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No.

If they were allowed to strongly discipline them again, that might change.

  • 12.16.2012 11:15 AM PDT

I hate getting a new teacher who demands my rspect. they have to show me that they are worth the respect by being a good teacher. this doesn't mean I'm distruptive if they're bad, it just annoys me that they want respect they don't deserve.

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Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie

Posted by: Alec9224
I don't know about respect, but I'm not sure I agree with everyone that thinks they should be paid a lot more. They have nearly half the year off and while dealing with kids would be annoying it's not exactly a job that requires a very difficult or rare skill set.


Is that all they do? Just deal with kids?
They say they should be paid more because they are teaching the next generation.

Yet they keep striking and having teacher training days, working in a school you would be surprised how little work they actually do.

Most of them sit in the staff rooms talking about going out for a drink or something, some talking about holidays. 1 or 2 took advantage of the system by coming back into work for a week having 6 months off for being ill and then rinse repeat.

All teachers care about are the next pay check, if they really cared the education would be much higher.

  • 12.16.2012 11:17 AM PDT
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No, and I will admit I was one of those kids that didn't show any respect.
Some teachers I did, the ones that actually treated me like a person and showed me respect in kind. The ones that assumed I should respect them immediately before they even knew my name were the ones I didn't get on with.

Re-reading this, it sounds like I'm blaming the teachers, I'm not. Well okay, maybe a little, but I wasn't a nice kid, so I blame myself too.

  • 12.16.2012 11:18 AM PDT

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Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie

Posted by: Alec9224
I don't know about respect, but I'm not sure I agree with everyone that thinks they should be paid a lot more. They have nearly half the year off and while dealing with kids would be annoying it's not exactly a job that requires a very difficult or rare skill set.


Is that all they do? Just deal with kids?
They say they should be paid more because they are teaching the next generation.

Yet they keep striking and having teacher training days, working in a school you would be surprised how little work they actually do.

Most of them sit in the staff rooms talking about going out for a drink or something, some talking about holidays. 1 or 2 took advantage of the system by coming back into work for a week having 6 months off for being ill and then rinse repeat.

All teachers care about are the next pay check, if they really cared the education would be much higher.


Thanks man, I just got cancer.

  • 12.16.2012 11:18 AM PDT


Posted by: Graver18
No. And everyone thinks their job is easy, while in reality, it's not.

  • 12.16.2012 11:19 AM PDT

Nope. Especially not by students mostly because they don't do anything to earn respect, they just demand it, which doesn't work.

  • 12.16.2012 11:20 AM PDT
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Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie

Posted by: Alec9224
I don't know about respect, but I'm not sure I agree with everyone that thinks they should be paid a lot more. They have nearly half the year off and while dealing with kids would be annoying it's not exactly a job that requires a very difficult or rare skill set.


Is that all they do? Just deal with kids?

I never said it was all they do, I was just pointing out a single aspect that would be admittedly annoying. What do they do that requires an extensive skill set that the average person couldn't do? What do they do that requires them to get paid more even though they work half the year?

Put it this way, go to any college campus and most people you stop could probably teach a class at high school level or lower with at least some proficiency. Now stop a random person and ask them to write a program, most won't even know where to start. The point is that jobs that should make a lot of money are those with a highly specialized skill set, and I just don't see what teachers do as skillful enough to warrant what people think they should make. Not to mention they generally have pretty good benefits.

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Posted by: DatDudeBV
We have too many teachers for useless subjects, and many teachers are overpaid. Teachers also achieve tenure too easily.

  • 12.16.2012 11:22 AM PDT

As people in the business of educating people? No, they don't.

By their own merits as people? That's something you have to look at case-by-case. There are a lot of teachers I've had that I'm ashamed to have been in the same room as.

  • 12.16.2012 11:23 AM PDT

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