OKAY....so yesterday was the bummer of all bummers. It was officially "teacher appreciation" day here at school, which generally consists of yummy ice cream being ruined by all the teachers complaining about how this is really wrecking their diets--yet going back for seconds, anyway. Then we were entertained with a completely depressing video that consisted of 30 minutes worth of charts and graphs, and 30 minutes of letting us know how terrible we are as teachers and how we are failing the students. Nothing like a big dose of warm fuzzies at the end of the day!
The video was nothing more than propaganda for KIPS charter schools and what I learned from my wasted hour was this:
1) According to the chart in slide 3, I currently make as much as people who were classified as having a 'high school diploma with some college'. Even though I have a Masters Degree in a content area (which according to the chart means that I should be making on average $25,000 more than I am).
2) The problem starts in the 4th grade with reading, so we have to focus our changes there.
3) Statistics are still boring.
Trudging through the mud...
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At first I was tempted to comment and say something about how statistics & math are not boring.
But then I thought about it some more.
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