As the Chicago school strike enters its second week. Of course, our strike in Round Lake, Illinois, back in 1994 went for 38 school days and was an early attempt by Republicans and their ilk to break our union.
8. Teacher GUIDEBOOKS stress avoiding offending students and their parents. A student is not "lazy." He is "a reluctant scholar." A student isn't spoiled, she "only responds positively to very firm handling." And, the dice you use in math class are "probability cubes" to avoid upsetting parents opposed to gambling.
I used a die in class to pick students to answer the Daily Challenge. First roll picked the row and second one the student.
And you definitely can't say what you really think to the parent of a trouble-maker, "Sir, you child is a little _______."
9. Kiss bassist GENE SIMMONS of the long tongue and funny make-up, was once a 6th-grade teacher in Spanish Harlem and said, "I did it for six months, and I wanted to kill every single kid." In another interview, he said: "Children need to learn to be selfish, to put themselves first and not care what other people think."
I would have loved to see a parent-teacher conference with him in full Kiss regalia as the teacher. And then, stick that tongue out. The parent would have to be taken to the hospital.
10. FEMALE INSTRUCTORS in Chicago became more active in the women's suffrage movement in the 1890s after school board member William Rainey Harper (also president of the University of Chicago) rejected the idea of raises for teachers, noting that they already made more money than his wife's maid. he also sugested a compromise to raise male teacher salary only.
Sadly, his view is one of the reasons teachers had to form unions. The public thought they were great people, but wouldn't pay them a fair salary for their effort.
Another reat job, Jacob and Benzkofer.
It's a Teacher Thing, You Wouldn't Understand. --Cooter
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