Blog Post #10

For my final project, the assemblage I will be focusing on the issue of the treatment of public school teachers in Florida, and it’s effects on the future. The problem at hand is that teachers are not being treated or paid how they deserved to be. As a daughter of a public school teacher, I have seen first hand the amount of effort, patience, experience, and intelligence that goes into being a teacher. I have also seen the lack of respect, and mistreatment towards my mother in her profession. Nowadays, teaching is looked down on as a career. Due to the lack of pay teachers receive, people who are experts in their fields of study are now deciding that becoming a teacher isn’t a good idea, and they are taking their expertise elsewhere. With this in mind, more and more people who are not experts in their fields are becoming teachers since it is an “easier” route (when in fact it may be one of the most challenging careers). The government is also attempting to unfairly judge and determine their salaries on factors that are sometimes out of their control. I believe in order to correct these issues, teachers’ salaries need to increase drastically, and people need to begin giving teachers more respect in society. My audience I’m addressing is the government, and public school teachers across the country. I plan on addressing my issue in a professional and formal tone. The constraints would be the government officials who decide and determine teachers’ salaries.