Right, because teachers don’t care one way or the other about their students’ progress, and learning to be a more effective teacher is only worth it if you get higher pay or better benefits.

They want us to find our OWN professional development opportunities?! What? Why won’t our employers do it FOR us?

GRRR. Teachers with that sort of mentality SHOULD leave the classroom, and probably shouldn’t've entered it in the first place.

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From “On Caring”:

This makes for good copy, and
allows us to weave compelling
narratives about the glorious
teacher-martyr, but it is a
flimsy thing, unmeasurable and
unreliable — like so much of
what we do.
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Upon reading school mission
statements, I often find the
term “nurturing” or “nurturing
enviorment” stated.

I find the term repulsive in
the context of education. I
can’t imagine embracing a
child, metaphorically, or to
my chest (bossom, to you
women), amid the cut and dry
facts that I must teach from
the Math or Language Arts
Lesson Plan.

My interest has always been
to appeal to the students’
intellect, as if we belong
to the spiecies with the
greatest ability of thought
on this planet.

I don’t like to be thought
of as a nursing sow.