Comments for John Walkup http://blogs.standardsco.com/wpmu/jwalkup Standards and Rigor Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:33:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 Comment on We Need More Science Teachers: A Proposed Solution by R Gannon http://blogs.standardsco.com/wpmu/jwalkup/2009/10/11/we-need-more-science-teachers-a-proposed-solution/#comment-1353 R Gannon Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:59:29 +0000 http://blogs.standardsco.com/wpmu/jwalkup/?p=175#comment-1353 valuable. Not sure how this helps the situation, however. Some folks (you and I) GIVE and LIKE to give a lot and put up with low salaries because of some mystical, religious, mysterious commitment we have. Maybe we are OCD!!! (joke...partly) But how is such a blog of use? Who will it change? Us? Change needs to be SYSTEMIC and in corporations/families/society/politics. At this point it irks me to teach an executives kids and "s/he" is paying me less than he pays the secretary in the office. Doesn't make sense. Who does he value? What are his values? VALUE SYSTEM CHANGE is what is needed or China, India, and other countries will soon eat the wallets out of our pants. valuable. Not sure how this helps the situation, however.
Some folks (you and I) GIVE and LIKE to give a lot and put up with low salaries because of some mystical, religious, mysterious commitment we have. Maybe we are OCD!!! (joke…partly) But how is such a blog of use? Who will it change? Us?

Change needs to be SYSTEMIC and in corporations/families/society/politics. At this point it irks me to teach an executives kids and “s/he” is paying me less than he pays the secretary in the office. Doesn’t make sense. Who does he value? What are his values? VALUE SYSTEM CHANGE is what is needed or China, India, and other countries will soon eat the wallets out of our pants.

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