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Originally Posted by lkb0714
I love my job, I like working with teenagers, I like the material, I love the research we do, etc. I hate all of the other stuff. That being said, I would not encourage my own child to becomes a teacher. It is not getting better, the stability which was compensation for the mediocre pay is disappearing, and the "other stuff" is getting to be a larger and larger piece of the average teacher's day.
So no, I would not encourage you to pursue a teaching career.
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Teacher of 26 years, and I'm also encouraging my own children, not to be a teacher. By nature I'm a teacher, and I do enjoy it so...but....it gets worse every year. I know I sound like an old teacher in the teachers lounge chronically complaining, but...
Politics, if you are a right leaning person like myself, social justice, class envy, wealth equality, social programs and welfare, etc, teaching is a nightmare. Think of your most liberal friend, someone who bleeds the aforementioned crap, and you are in education. The things they propose are a direct correlation to failing public schools.
Administration in today's schools. "if you can't teach, administrate" Imagine a teacher who hates working in the classroom and does whatever it takes to become an administrator. Then this same person will do whatever it takes to keep themselves out of the classroom. Follow the dictates of policy, which for the most part is the kid is never wrong it's the teacher's fault.
Add to that; more responsibility less support, more duties less time, more paperwork less meaning. Now throw in questionable pension plans, and a new breed of teachers who are not adequately trained, i.e. (many districts are now allowing teachers with less than a degree in education, less than a BS even, in Nebraska a bill is proposed allowing those with 2 years of college education to become teachers) So what? Just shows you how little the government or the public values the training of teachers. Basically, we can take anyone off the street to do your job, and if you can't cut it, quit and we will just fill in the vacancy. Also, with all these "new" teachers, we can pay them and you less. Ha ha.
NO. I've only 4 years to go, and I'm white knuckling it all the way. New teachers, run, run, run away.
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