Comments on: Nearly 1,300 Idaho teachers left profession in 2011, up from 700 in the previous year http://idahobusinessreview.com/2012/02/15/nearly-1300-idaho-teachers-left-profession-in-2011-up-from-700-in-the-previous-year/ IBR Wed, 22 May 2013 04:03:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bill http://idahobusinessreview.com/2012/02/15/nearly-1300-idaho-teachers-left-profession-in-2011-up-from-700-in-the-previous-year/comment-page-1/#comment-102664 Bill Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:28:35 +0000 http://idahobusinessreview.com/?p=59340#comment-102664 It's also (as of 2/25) interesting that... "Half of all Idaho students qualified for the federal free and reduced lunch programs in 2011, the State Department of Education reports. That’s up from 37 percent in 2008. In the Boise School District, 47 percent of students now have family incomes low enough to qualify for free and reduced lunch." Maybe the guys at Dolan Media are wussies, which I doubt, but the journalistic implications are clear, re: the good ship "Idaho's Economy". It's taking on water rapidly and listing badly to port. If a business publication can't take on the corrupt and stupid state political gang that's responsible for all this (100%), that publication's not going to be around much longer. It’s also (as of 2/25) interesting that…

“Half of all Idaho students qualified for the federal free and reduced lunch programs in 2011, the State Department of Education reports. That’s up from 37 percent in 2008. In the Boise School District, 47 percent of students now have family incomes low enough to qualify for free and reduced lunch.”

Maybe the guys at Dolan Media are wussies, which I doubt, but the journalistic implications are clear, re: the good ship “Idaho’s Economy”. It’s taking on water rapidly and listing badly to port. If a business publication can’t take on the corrupt and stupid state political gang that’s responsible for all this (100%), that publication’s not going to be around much longer.

]]> By: Bill http://idahobusinessreview.com/2012/02/15/nearly-1300-idaho-teachers-left-profession-in-2011-up-from-700-in-the-previous-year/comment-page-1/#comment-102283 Bill Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:41:17 +0000 http://idahobusinessreview.com/?p=59340#comment-102283 The only thing that puzzles me about this story, is why anybody in Idaho might actually be mystified by it. The only thing that puzzles me about this story, is why anybody in Idaho might actually be mystified by it.

]]> By: Janine Bastian http://idahobusinessreview.com/2012/02/15/nearly-1300-idaho-teachers-left-profession-in-2011-up-from-700-in-the-previous-year/comment-page-1/#comment-102262 Janine Bastian Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:04:23 +0000 http://idahobusinessreview.com/?p=59340#comment-102262 I was about 5 years away from "making it to Rule of 90" -- full retirement. I retired early, I left a profession I loved and worked hard at for 25 years. I left because of administration at the local and state level. I never required much from administrators over my tenure and actually with the exception of one phenomenal building administrator, Dr. Kathleen McCurdy, I didn't have much contact with administrators. I never once saw a Legislator or any type of lawmaker, State Department personnel or other policy maker in the buildings in which I worked. I left because I couldn't take the politics, the ineptness, and the laziness I witnessed in administrators. I paid my association dues for 25 years and never one second of any day of any year did I ever think I wouldn't do my absolute best because I was "protected" by my tenure. I worked tirelessly for my students. Year after year I was part of the Sunday afternoon crowd you can find in any building preparing for the upcoming week. My last year I felt so beaten down that I couldn't take it any more. I now volunteer teach in various capacities, in public schools, in private settings and in a local hospital. Now, I can just teach and not be bothered with the deflating, depressing, and debilitating politics. Teachers are not the problem . . . I was about 5 years away from “making it to Rule of 90″ — full retirement. I retired early, I left a profession I loved and worked hard at for 25 years. I left because of administration at the local and state level. I never required much from administrators over my tenure and actually with the exception of one phenomenal building administrator, Dr. Kathleen McCurdy, I didn’t have much contact with administrators. I never once saw a Legislator or any type of lawmaker, State Department personnel or other policy maker in the buildings in which I worked. I left because I couldn’t take the politics, the ineptness, and the laziness I witnessed in administrators. I paid my association dues for 25 years and never one second of any day of any year did I ever think I wouldn’t do my absolute best because I was “protected” by my tenure. I worked tirelessly for my students. Year after year I was part of the Sunday afternoon crowd you can find in any building preparing for the upcoming week. My last year I felt so beaten down that I couldn’t take it any more. I now volunteer teach in various capacities, in public schools, in private settings and in a local hospital. Now, I can just teach and not be bothered with the deflating, depressing, and debilitating politics. Teachers are not the problem . . .

]]> By: Walt Cook http://idahobusinessreview.com/2012/02/15/nearly-1300-idaho-teachers-left-profession-in-2011-up-from-700-in-the-previous-year/comment-page-1/#comment-102254 Walt Cook Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:47:23 +0000 http://idahobusinessreview.com/?p=59340#comment-102254 Until we replace Luna our education system will be one of the worst in the country. We are losing teachers to places like Wyoming that will pay them almost twice what we are paying our teachers in Idaho. We have more school districts in Idaho then both Wyoming and Utah together (a waste of money). We want to get new business in the state, but when your education system is so bad, why would someone want to bring their family here. Until we replace Luna our education system will be one of the worst in the country. We are losing teachers to places like Wyoming that will pay them almost twice what we are paying our teachers in Idaho. We have more school districts in Idaho then both Wyoming and Utah together (a waste of money). We want to get new business in the state, but when your education system is so bad, why would someone want to bring their family here.

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