I am not complaining. I love my job with the students, helping them become young adults.<\/p>\n
People can say I make too much money, which\u00a0 apparently they are, but I drive a 1999 car, don’t go on trips unless it is part of my husband’s business expense, still have $4,000 in\u00a0 student loans from four years ago,\u00a0 have worked 2 hours on school activities today (Sunday), and I leave school most days after nine hours at school with a half hour lunch break. When I go to the grocery store, I am careful of my behavior because I know I am a role model\u00a0 for students.<\/p>\n
Summer does involve 6 weeks that can <\/em>be school free, some years. In that time, I plan carefully how best to catch up on\u00a0 chores around the house, reading, visiting family and friends. Me and most every other teacher I know live like this, or with more hours and\u00a0 more debt. We all <\/em>have put in the time and training to earn <\/em>a bachelor’s degree, and most of us have far more education than that.<\/p>\n I am very grateful and appreciative of the educators who have cared for, nurtured, directed and helped me raise my children. The Public Schools are some of the best things this country has going for it. The system\u00a0 is not flawless, but it does work. Thoughtful speech is important in any public debate, because words do matter. The teachers being degraded in the media are real people who care for our precious resource – the children.<\/p>\n Just my thoughts. I am not complaining. I love my job with the students, helping them become young adults. People can say I make too much money, which\u00a0 apparently they are, but I drive a 1999 car, don’t go on trips unless it is part of my husband’s business expense, still have $4,000 in\u00a0 student loans from four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,347,46,89],"tags":[737,739,4,616],"class_list":["post-16154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-education-reform","category-k-12-related","category-teachers","tag-education","tag-education-reform","tag-k-12","tag-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16158,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154\/revisions\/16158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJulie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"