[chicagoblackhawks77]

I am a special ed teacher in an Outreach School where kids who get kicked out of regular schools go. I have kids who have been abused in ways you would never want to know, kids who are hooked on hard drugs, kids born of mothers who abused themselves with drugs and alcohol while pregnant. I took this job because I want to do something positive with my life. I wanted to be a teacher all my life and never once bitched about the money. I owe 40000 in student loans that I try to pay off by working 6 weeks of the 8 week summer I get. I teach basketball camps the other two weeks. that leaves me two weeks off at christmas and 1 week off at easter, which is a fair number of holidays for most people starting a job.

I work in a high risk area with extremely difficult kids and I have to listen to the shit and abuse of people who only remember the lazy teacher or the jerk who screwed them over in English class. Don't believe every stereotype you hear, some of us 1) love our jobs, 2) do it because we know the positive influence our position can have on the world and 3) are quite happy with our pay

Oh and one more thing, I hate being in a union and I hate taking things away from kids when we are on strike. One of my favorite things about teaching is coaching and I coach basketball for 7 months of the year for zero dollars...and I love it. If it were up to me, we would never take away sports due to labour conflict.

Most of these posts are perfect examples of the crap I am sick of listening to...I don't want more money, I am happy with the three weeks of holidays I get, I give up plenty of my own time to coach basketball, I hate being in a union and striking and I care a great deal about one thing -- the kids.

Get off teachers, you offend the hell out of me

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