Comments on: Teaching shortage in NO http://www.nicholls.edu/bastiatsbastions/2007/01/25/86/ What is seen and what is unseen. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:26:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Aarion Lyons http://www.nicholls.edu/bastiatsbastions/2007/01/25/86/comment-page-1/#comment-12274 Aarion Lyons Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:38:48 +0000 http://www.nicholls.edu/bastiatsbastions/2007/01/25/86/#comment-12274 Stuff like this makes me kind of angry. I mean, people take jobs that they do not like everyday. From the garbage truck driver, to the mail man who is chased by stray dogs; people do things they don't want to do. I think when people chose to spend time doing something they "love," they should not complain when the conditions are not to their liking. If everything went the way we wanted, we would all be crazy and content all at the same time. Teachers are intelligent enough, obviously, to realize the conditions that they may be face with in pursuing a job in thier choice of profession. I may agree that teachers should get paid more, but not because of the way students act in school. I believe as a person who teaches the leaders of tomorrow, they should be entitled to a raise and a little higher bonuses just like the next guy. I just think that it should be given on merit and not on pity. They can't feel like they deserve it just because they put up with bad children and they are teaching in "rough" neighborhoods. I think more attention should also be drawn to the fact that parents today need to be aware of the fact that they are raising their kids wrong. Everyone knows that behavior starts at home, and there should be more family counseling given and more reports given to parents, and more parent teacher meetings. When we start connecting more with the parents and getting them to care, then we will see results! People won't complain so much about how they put up with kids and how they deserve more money because of it. Stuff like this makes me kind of angry. I mean, people take jobs that they do not like everyday. From the garbage truck driver, to the mail man who is chased by stray dogs; people do things they don’t want to do. I think when people chose to spend time doing something they “love,” they should not complain when the conditions are not to their liking. If everything went the way we wanted, we would all be crazy and content all at the same time. Teachers are intelligent enough, obviously, to realize the conditions that they may be face with in pursuing a job in thier choice of profession. I may agree that teachers should get paid more, but not because of the way students act in school. I believe as a person who teaches the leaders of tomorrow, they should be entitled to a raise and a little higher bonuses just like the next guy. I just think that it should be given on merit and not on pity. They can’t feel like they deserve it just because they put up with bad children and they are teaching in “rough” neighborhoods. I think more attention should also be drawn to the fact that parents today need to be aware of the fact that they are raising their kids wrong. Everyone knows that behavior starts at home, and there should be more family counseling given and more reports given to parents, and more parent teacher meetings. When we start connecting more with the parents and getting them to care, then we will see results! People won’t complain so much about how they put up with kids and how they deserve more money because of it.

]]> By: Steve W http://www.nicholls.edu/bastiatsbastions/2007/01/25/86/comment-page-1/#comment-916 Steve W Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:22:46 +0000 http://www.nicholls.edu/bastiatsbastions/2007/01/25/86/#comment-916 The CNN article and your summation are a quick lesson in textbook free market economics in a nutshell. Crap jobs can be filled in two ways - either add benefits until the nasty aspects are offset making the job attractive, or by accepting a lower level of employee than would otherwise be acceptable. Schools with half of the staff as first year teachers? Roving Guards who are assaulted & beaten by the students? Have the inmates taken over this asylum? Of course the current application of "Public Education" is a perversion of the original free market intent. Somehow over time the ideal that a student WHO WANTED TO ATTEND basic schooling and therefore the State would provide an educational opportunity was socialized into the modern system where students are "ordered" to attend. We should not be in the least bit amazed at the results of compulsory education. NO should return to its free market origins, and if the schools cannot be staffed, close them. If the city cannot support itself, then wind it down - close it, shutter it, brun it to the ground, but do not pour our tax dollars into a loosing proposition. Natural Selection & Free Market activity can correct the NO teacher situation, not tax dollars, mandates or pleading to the goodwill of newbie teachers. The CNN article and your summation are a quick lesson in textbook free market economics in a nutshell.

Crap jobs can be filled in two ways – either add benefits until the nasty aspects are offset making the job attractive, or by accepting a lower level of employee than would otherwise be acceptable.

Schools with half of the staff as first year teachers? Roving Guards who are assaulted & beaten by the students?

Have the inmates taken over this asylum?

Of course the current application of “Public Education” is a perversion of the original free market intent.

Somehow over time the ideal that a student WHO WANTED TO ATTEND basic schooling and therefore the State would provide an educational opportunity was socialized into the modern system where students are “ordered” to attend. We should not be in the least bit amazed at the results of compulsory education.

NO should return to its free market origins, and if the schools cannot be staffed, close them.

If the city cannot support itself, then wind it down – close it, shutter it, brun it to the ground, but do not pour our tax dollars into a loosing proposition.

Natural Selection & Free Market activity can correct the NO teacher situation, not tax dollars, mandates or pleading to the goodwill of newbie teachers.

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