Teachers' Bill of Rights

I found a commentary article in the Austin American Statesman called “Teachers need a bill of rights.” The contributor to this commentary article claims that we are too worried about reforming education that we have forgot that teachers too need certain resources to keep working more effectively with students. Therefore, Stevenson from O. Henry Middle School believes that teachers need a bill of rights to help them be more productive when it comes to teaching students. Yet, she gives six issues that should be included in this bill; however, she fails to maintain her claim because she goes off the subject by talking about student’s poverty and how they shouldn’t be categorized as rich just because of their district. Then she goes back to her claim saying that no teacher should have to teach more than five classes per day without getting pay of list other $5000, which I believe is correct because many school teacher don’t get pay much, but still work a lot of hours. They are practically offering more labor than what they are actually getting pay for and that’s not right. Stevenson also states that no teacher should have to teach more than 140 students per day because it is hard for students to maintain a relationship with the teacher, and it's also more difficult for a teacher to control a big crowd of students. Later, Stevenson continuous, but instead of given an other reason she keeps talking about the same issue of class overloaded. Her fifth issue is a bit more convincing because she talks about teachers not having a full-time technology specialist to repair computers that are used for instructional purposes and also provide a satisfactory salary for them. Finally, Stevenson claims in her last issue that the library budget should be increase to buy the necessary books and material for instructional purposes because it’s not enough with a budget of $2 dollars per students to keep the library with the current collation of books. I agreed with most of Stevenson's commentaries because teachers hardly complain about anything, mainly because they loved their work and value their profession. I don't think there is anything wrong by imposing a few rules that not just going to benefit themselves but also students.

http://statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/10/10/10