Teachers have be arguing about their pay since the late nineteeth century. Teachers play a very important part in the development of our children. Teachers are their to assist parents in the growth of a young child, teachers basically spend alot of time education our kids, making sure that they reach their full potential. From reading this chapter its seem as if teachers are fighting with administrators, the state, and federal goverment in order to treated nicely, get credit for the work that they are doing with our kids and they want to achieve a better pay.
I guess improving salaries and working conditions would always be an on going battle because teachers would make claims that they are working hard and not being credited and society will look at how badly educational system is doing and blame teachers for not working hard enough. Its like all teacher will the get bash when children are failing even though not all teachers are doing terrible job. The say goes one bad apple spoil the whole batch.
It seem as through that the school administators are not doing their jobs as best as they could because when the state get down on them, they get down on their teachers just to make sure that requirement are met so that they can get the funding that they need and the rewards for doing a good job. But I think that we need to lesser the amount of rewards we are giving administators and start look at our teachers and acknowledging them for the good work they are doing.
I also like the section on propaganda and Free speech in the schools. It is stated in the book that the educational Polices Commission was a joint venture started in 1953 by the NEA and american association of school administrators to improve education for democratic citizenship. That section also spoke about students study public issues in order to protect themselves from government schemes. It also say that one of things that are being debated in classrooms is freedom of speech. Student having the ability to express their feeling on how government or running/managing things in society or for society.
From this chapter the question that I have is: Should teacher pay be increase solely on the fact that we see results? Should government have majority of the control of the educational systems? Should government politics be a major part of schools curriculum? Do you thing that Haley vision of an organization controlled by and operated for the benefit of teachers can still be organize and carried out in today’s society?
