A furlough is a temporary leave of absence from employment, duty in the armed services, or from a prison term. It may be voluntary or involuntary.
I've been doing abit of research on this subject and the more I found out the more it pissed me off. At first I didn't know what the word meant, I was aquanted with the word by my mother who is a teacher, the second time from my sister, a teacher, and finally I heard it around my school from various teachers, all in which viewed it in a negative light. So I decided to go and look it up and see why.
In a nutshell board members of various school districts as well as universities implemented "furlough days" in 2009. This made students pay the same rate, if not more for their education while providing fewer educational days by forcing professors to take the day off. This was also put into play to so they wouldn't have to lay teachers off because apparently they don't have the funds to pay them, this to me is bullshit.
To reiterate this from my understanding, we as students pay more for less class days. What the fuck is this? Someone please explain it to me as to why we have to suffer, both students and teachers. Teachers are the hardest working people in the world while we students are just trying to better ourselves. I have a great respect for teachers, they come in to work, they deal with tons of different personalities, some easy to deal with, some not so easy. They teach us everything we know, motivate us, show us the right path in life, council us, discipline us and for what? One of the lowest paying jobs and not even a thank you.
Being shafted as they are today it's a surprise people are still trying to become teachers. We can barely pay teachers, but we can give Lebron James, Lady Gaga, and an assortment of other people tons and tons of money...that's fucking retarded in my opinion. Why are they fuloughing teachers who have an important job to shape the future of the world and making the future generation pay more to better themselves, when they could maybe cut out some of the millions that our athletes, movie stars, and musical artist, which I'm sure they won't miss and give it to our teachers and our educational departments.
Cripes, seriously, why can't we do that? Use logic people, because the way I see it, soon people will stop wanting to be teachers and pursue other careers and then what will happen to the generations of children that come after people decide they don't want to become teachers because of they way they are treated? Think about it, give me comments, I honestly want to know what you think as readers.
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I hear ya, dude. America is screwed up on the behalf of not supporting its teachers enough.
ReplyDeleteIt's not fair that people like Michael Vick earn more money in a year than a teacher does in 11 or 12 years. It's just not right...
No it isn't, teachers do alot more for alot less. Also I find it bullshit that they are making us students pay more for less days of class. I also forgot to mention the fact they don't give out less money for loans even though the system is charging students more.
ReplyDeleteGreat point, would make a very interesting and appealing argument. It would be something that i would love to talk about in politics....if i was a politician.
ReplyDeleteHere's how I see our society today.
ReplyDeleteFamous actresses, actors, singers, and sports people, are the equivalent of Medieval royalty while teachers are the equivalent of Medieval's jesters and traveling entertainment. And to think back then, teachers were very important.
That's how backwards our society is. It also doesn't help that our government REFUSES to look at other societies teaching habits and adapt them here. Only thing is teachers would have to teach more, which means longer hours which means less money for our government to spend money on stupid nonsense.
They are doing the same thing with almost all government jobs and numerous business are practicing what the government is doing.
I find it to be a bunch of BS though. On a serious note, to the furlough atheletes and sings and such? Do they dock their pay? No, they dock the pay of people actually doing something important in the world. A few years from now will anyone care about someone bouncing a ball or singing songs or acting in movies when people can't read, write, or know math because all the teachers have quit?
ReplyDeleteIt just goes to show you how much "they" want the general populous to become more stupid, submissive and dispensible. Besides, it's a lot easier to appeal an audience that has the education level of a 10 year old than a 40 year old.
ReplyDelete10 year old: OOH! Things go boom! Wow, wicked special effects. (Think of the movie 2012...)
40 year old: Okay, so we have this guy who's going to eject a fragment from a brown star from the moon using a device that is going to change the polarity of the moon's core all in a timeframe of 7 hours on the surface of the moon.... (The movie is called Impact)
Which requires more effort? Yeah, we're all lazy here.