timiscott wrote: ↑Fri Feb 14, 2025 2:28 am
Thanks for clarifying - I appreciate it. Teachers get so much grief that I tend to be a bit touchy on that subject. Total respect to anyone who can survive in that system, let along thrive in it.
You got it! Teachers work so much harder than anybody gives them credit for and the American education system massively undervalues them. It's truly infuriating, and I get frustrated when a teacher tells me that they spent their own money on something that should be something purchased through the business office. I always try to direct them to an admin that has a budget that applies to the thing. Unfortunately, I only have purview over technology and digital services, and even then I'm not actually an administrator in the district sense, just the technology sense, so I can't handle purchasing myself.
My best friend is a high school art teacher (as I said above) and she often says that the only reason she got the job is because she's a native Spanish speaker (she's a Peruvian, and an immigrant at that). I often remind her that she's an amazing teacher that puts herself into her profession and gets results out of students that others have given up on, often helping them find their way to success. This is my tenth year in the district and I always point out that I've never seen any other teacher have as many graduated students come back to visit as she does.
There are some teachers that give the fantastic ones a bad name and they're thankfully a tiny minority. Unfortunately, though, they end up being the focus. Also, unfortunately, those are the few that I'm
still battling with to correctly enter grades into our SIS, which isn't rocket surgery!
