LETTER: In defense of local teachers

Victor Joecks has made repeated attacks connected our section nationalist schoolhouse system. This clip it’s teachers (Dec. 10 Review-Journal).

Mr. Joecks bases his rant connected the premise that the 2015 taxation summation for acquisition didn’t lick the teacher shortage. He makes a bully point. But past it was ne'er meant to lick that problem. The wealth was a constitution for 10 years of small to nary increases successful wage oregon per-pupil expenditures and nary alteration successful people sizes — adjacent though the territory continued to grow.

Mr. Joecks besides makes immoderate ludicrous comments astir teachers that indispensable beryllium unchallenged. He includes sick leave, status and wellness attraction successful the teacher’s hourly wage. That is intelligibly deceitful. No 1 I person ever known includes those successful their hourly wage. The presumption that teachers enactment lone 7 hours and 11 minutes a time is absurd. In summation to teaching students, teachers indispensable people papers, hole lessons on with aggregate administrative tasks and meetings. If helium wanted to cognize wherefore we person a teacher shortage, asking a teacher would beryllium a bully start.

As for the nonrecreational improvement strategy for teacher advancement, teachers indispensable wage with their ain funds, and they bash not person clip to bash this astatine school. That assertion is insulting to the hard-working teachers successful this district.

I person a thought for Mr. Joecks the adjacent clip helium writes astir education: people size astatine each levels. They are mode excessively high. There is simply a occupation everyone would similar to spot tackled.