Re: How is Teaching in SC Right Now?

Right now, I'd say teaching in SC is lousy. We are expected
to do more and more with fewer and fewer resources. Just
when you think they can't throw one more thing at you, here
it comes.

A prime example is the new Power School/Power Teacher
program. How is it that there are funds to purchase this
when we have a budget crisis and are being forced to take
furlough days? (Strange that there were funds for this yet
some new textbook adoptions can't be funded.) The teachers at
my school had to spend HOURS of their own time figuring out
the program since NO training was provided.

On 10/10/09, Wondering wrote:
> I'm in GA and have been reading all the posts on their
> teachers' net and there is a vast difference from that site
> to this one. I'm just trying to figure out if SC is in
> slightly better shape than GA as far as the teaching front
> goes, and... trying to figure out whether to add SC
> certification to my existing GA one. To better compare and
> set the stage, teachers in GA have already taken several
> furlough days and many more may be set after Christmas -
> some teachers are saying their districts may make them take
> as many as 5, but most districts' admin. hasn't taken any
> furlough days. In fact, there are some GA districts who
> have coughed up money to add to the admin supplements.
> Also, most districts in GA are claiming not to have enough
> money to get subs when teachers are absent. Therefore,
> teachers (even in elem) have to cover an absent teacher's
> class during their planning period, and they keep swapping
> out different teachers to cover dependent upon their
> planning period. There are also many other various things,
> but not enough time to get into. Are the SC teachers in the
> same shape and just not venting about it on here? The GA
> site is full of teachers who are fed up - and rightly so -
> mostly because there is no union to stand up for us.