Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young America: What do you want to be when you grow up? How about being a teacher [June 16]? After a B.S., an M.S. and 20 years' experience, you can make $18,000 a year, teach five classes a day, grade homework for 150 students at night, do bus and early-morning duty and attend extracurricular events after school. Plus you get to read, at least once a month, articles telling you how incompetent you are and what a lousy job you are doing...
...have had it with verbal abuse, disobedience, cheating, apathy, and stealing of and damage to personal property on the part of those I tried to teach. You won't see me in September...
When I first glanced at your cover illustration with its title "Help! Teachers Can't Teach," I thought, "Oh, no, here we go again-another damning article on education." But I was pleasantly surprised. As a teacher, I want to thank you. You spelled out many of the existing problems of education very well...
...suspenders in Harley colors," and a three-record set of "War Songs of the Third Reich." You can order a handcrafted, bone china beer mug in the shape of a human skull, skull, or a part of your motorcycle plated in gold, or an eight-track tape that will teach you how to "make your dog a real man-stopper...
Beyond their prismatic gift for tint and shading the editors of Time have a real talent for discovering anguish. the illustrating example abounds--a teaser for the cover story on "Help--Teachers Can't Teach" tells of one teacher who "suffered a literal case of 'teacher burnout." Returning from lunch one day, he found flames leaping from his classroom window." Another mother despairs, "How do you tell your chid that contrary to what the teacher says, pin and pen are not homonyms?" But virtue lives on in some corners. One teacher "scrubs the desks in her classroom herself and sweeps...