It's a lousy day today. I have a test tommorrow and I'm dreading it. I also have so much work at work to do I'm seriously considering dropping a class.. or two. I think three classes is optimal, four is simply pushing it too far. More importantly though, I think I have to decide what I want to do with all these degrees. I don't know that the Ed.D is worth getting... or if that's what I want at all. I love the process of learning, but not necessarily the end result. What am I going to do with it? I don't know. Life is only so short... I don't know that I want to fill it up with all this studying and bullshit. I don't know that I want to spend this much time only to find myself at the mercy of tenure tracked positions and the shitty low wages that education pays.
I saw this bumper sticker on a door the other day and it says something like, "I relish the day the army has to organize a bake sale to raise funds for equipment"... Amen to that. How come companies get to hold galas, and balls to raise money, while we have to rely on the generosity of others just to bake cookies so we can sell it? Why don't teachers get bonuses? Why do teachers have to work two jobs just to make ends meet?
How can the most fundamental tenet of society, education that is, be valued so low monetarily speaking? No wonder we have shitty teachers. No wonder we have low test scores. No wonder no one wants to spend the money to get credentialed and to learn to teach. Why should educators have to give up high wages and a better quality of life just so others can have it?
That's just downright unfair.