Back when I was a single,childless, young teacher, I used to party with some charter school teachers. They all had trust funds, because otherwise they couldn't afford to do their jobs. They even wore long underwear to work in the winter because there was some "trouble" getting the heating bill paid.
Are you able to reveal the name of this Charter School?
It would be interesting to write a letter to Klein/Bloomberg referring to this question and asking if Charter Schools are able to "cut costs through independent thinking" on any other things that the "bloated bureacracy" of the current schools system contains, like health insurance.
Sorry, but I don't want to get the teachers in trouble, as they have no job protection whatsoever.
Forgive this rambling comment,
So I am talking to my friend who has this great gig at an EFL/ESL school in Manhattan in a "nice" building... Sounds great until he realized that the faculty was going through a revolving door and the part time gig created a part time attitude...teachers didnt even bother wiping their boards and marker stains were on the walls etc.
It occurs to me that that kind of factory attitude is what happens when teachers are viewed as pegs, replaceable parts of a machine. Seems like the charter schools and public schools in NYC are heading toward that kind of mentality. No security, and no respect. In certain Asian Countries they celebrate "Teacher day".. wonder if the same thing could be celebrated with the same reverance and seriousness in the USA. I am seriously contemplating another profession.
Quijota, in most other places, it's not like this. My God, just look at Connecticutt. It's actually a decently paying job over there. The treatment of teachers is just another form of the inequality our students face.
Don't change careers, change school systems.
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