Friday, May 22, 2009
SO I haven't blogged in a while, and I feel bad cuz I feel like I've abandoned you guys, but I still luv all of ya. 
So, on Tuesday, there was a teacher strike for every teacher in the union for Queensland (Horrah!). They want better pay, because they are the lowest paid teachers in Australia. When one of my teachers started, she said she was lucky to be earning $40 000 a year, and now, a few years later, she said that she earns about $50 000, but loses half of it on tax, and gets MORE taken out of her pay for Uni expenses. So, she gets paid something like $500 a week, which is unbelievable. The miners in this town get something like $100 000 for leaving school at year 10, whereas teachers had to finish school, go to Uni, PAY for Uni, and get abused everytime they come to work! So, they're going for a 21% pay increase, which would bring that teacher I was talking about up to $61 000, which in my opinion, is honestly still not enough, but its definately an improvement. And there's school. I was nearly crying today because I had so much school work, but I haven't been doing it because its SO F&CKING BORING! I did something like 20 textbook pages for biology in a week, and I've got a Home Ec assignment, maths assignment, legal studies assignment, and a chemistry assignment, and I think I'm supposed to be getting an EEI for biology! Not to mention exams for all the subjects listed above! But it's so unfair how they expect us to do all this homework for every subject, and on top of normal homework, do assignments! And then they wonder why we don't get both done, when we were working on either the homework or the assignment, or another subjects that was due that day! It just doesn't make ANY SENSE!
Anyway, I feel a little better now. I haven't ranted in a while. Peace!
So, on Tuesday, there was a teacher strike for every teacher in the union for Queensland (Horrah!). They want better pay, because they are the lowest paid teachers in Australia. When one of my teachers started, she said she was lucky to be earning $40 000 a year, and now, a few years later, she said that she earns about $50 000, but loses half of it on tax, and gets MORE taken out of her pay for Uni expenses. So, she gets paid something like $500 a week, which is unbelievable. The miners in this town get something like $100 000 for leaving school at year 10, whereas teachers had to finish school, go to Uni, PAY for Uni, and get abused everytime they come to work! So, they're going for a 21% pay increase, which would bring that teacher I was talking about up to $61 000, which in my opinion, is honestly still not enough, but its definately an improvement. And there's school. I was nearly crying today because I had so much school work, but I haven't been doing it because its SO F&CKING BORING! I did something like 20 textbook pages for biology in a week, and I've got a Home Ec assignment, maths assignment, legal studies assignment, and a chemistry assignment, and I think I'm supposed to be getting an EEI for biology! Not to mention exams for all the subjects listed above! But it's so unfair how they expect us to do all this homework for every subject, and on top of normal homework, do assignments! And then they wonder why we don't get both done, when we were working on either the homework or the assignment, or another subjects that was due that day! It just doesn't make ANY SENSE!
Anyway, I feel a little better now.
I haven't ranted in a while. Peace!
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