Tuesday is National Teacher Day, part of Teacher Appreciation Week, which has taken on special resonance in recent years as many teachers feel increasingly dishonored by policymakers who have put them at the center of controversial reforms.
So what do teachers get during this commemoration? Some companies offer discounts to teachers for various items, and messages of thanks and appreciation to teachers — including from some of the very policymakers who have upset teachers — are posted on social media.
Dunno about you, but I could do without the platitudes and lip service we get during Teacher Appreciatino Week from the very same policymakers and politicians who spend the rest of the year teacher-bashing.
Thoughts?
Do you like the 20% off coupons we get during Teacher Appreciation Week or could you too live without Teacher Appreciation Week?
This is a phony bs excuse to sell merchandise just like everything else is. Teachers do not want any rah rah because rah rah and 50 cents does not get you on the subway. Rather, teachers are getting discounts to "shop" at stores and spend money...this is just another money generating made up day for the love of money and hardly the love of teachers.
ReplyDeleteJust ask the creators of daylight savings. This was created so that people would spend more money during the "daylight" hours on golf balls, base balls and bats, golf clubs and other sporting goods activities that require purchasing and spending money. Daylight savings is about nothing other than money.
They should replace Teachers Appreciation Week with Educational Bloggers Appreciation Week.
ReplyDeleteI agree with anon 2:49 pm.
ReplyDeleteRBE, NYCE, Ednotes, Chaz, AccountableTalk, to name a few deserve the recognition of EDUCTIONAL BLOGGERS APPRECIATION WEEK!
I don't like Teacher Appreciation Week. I am a parent and not a teacher. Our PTA asks us for money to buy presents and treats for teachers. This seems infantalizing to me. Teachers are professionals, right? I don't buy treats for my doctor/dentist/lawyer.
ReplyDeleteCarmen Farina can take her Teacher Appreciation week letter and shove it up her ass. The same phony Carmen Farina who rants " Fire more teachers! " to her zombie administrators. Shove it up your ass Carmen Farina!
ReplyDeleteYeah shove a baseball bat sideways up your rectum. To make the process aligned with Danielson it should be more rigorous by wrapping razor wire around said bat. To be kind the lube should be naval jelly mixed with hydrochloride acid.
ReplyDeleteCheers
A fan of applying the standards to your wrinkled senile ass!
I for one would enjoy watching her be drawn and quartered slowly but that would come after two years of bullying by teachers who would like to give as good as what they have received at the hands of her hench creatures.
ReplyDeleteSenile cow
More like Teacher Appreciation? WEAK
ReplyDeleteGranted Carmen Farina is a complete venal stooge. However her senility does not prevent her for ranting against teachers and the teaching profession. Her mantra "Fire More Teachers!" has advanced her as the Marie Antoinette of school administration. The old Farina hag should arm wrestle with Meryl Tisch for most the title of MOST INCOMPETENT !
ReplyDeleteSend out the Flying Monkeys . It is teacher firing week!
ReplyDeleteNo one is applying to teacher education programs. Why is that? Teacher morale is at all time low as result of the bullying and the bullshit they face everyday from the school administrators. No shit Sherlock! Holy flying monkeys Batman!
ReplyDeleteFlying monkeys are coming for an informal observation this week.
ReplyDeleteBullshit appreciation week. "Step into the gas chamber, please"
ReplyDeletesaid the Nazi soldier to the jewish child.
More venom to the NY City DOE and DeBlasio from teachers. When the shit hits the fan duck fast, Bill DeBlasio.
ReplyDeleteThe DOE and it administrator are shit farts. They all suck and neck.
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