AngelRho wrote:
sly: out of curiosity, why didn't you finish your teaching degree?
People whine and complain as the day is long how teachers are underpaid, but the reality is the teaching profession is a racket. I was making just over $30k gross at my second public school job. That was back when Mississippi suddenly decided legislatively they weren't going to pay their teachers anymore. The so-called "adequate education program" hasn't been fully funded since, which is a joke when you look at just how much money is currently spent (and wasted) on schools and teachers. Those who actually dare to teach in our public schools haven't had a yearly pay raise since, and that guaranteed pay raise was one of the big selling points of getting into the profession.
I got tired of all the bull$#!+ from administrators who were too busy nitpicking young, white teachers and couldn't keep their fingers out of my classroom long enough for me to actually do anything with the kids. Tried teaching in private schools for two years, and the egos and attitudes are even worse there. Their music/art teachers have such a high turnaround you can't accomplish anything there, although if you teach social science, science, language arts, or math, you're pretty much set for life.
Seriously, a starting salary of $30k even in this economy doesn't suck, and I'm appalled by how teachers act when it comes to their pay. If it's all about the money (most teachers genuinely love it and stay on in spite of how government treats them), then put in 5-10 GOOD years and apply your experience to something related to your subject. You really can do a lot worse than a teaching job.
bunch of reasons. 1. my state is firing teachers left and right due to budget cuts, mean while building new schools. its the same store with police. people here will fund building new buildings but not to pay for the people to work in them. then add that theres a lot of people getting teaching degrees, we have two big teaching colleges here.
2. I don't know that i'd bee a good teacher. I have passion for history yes, but i'm probably far too submissive to control a bunch of misbehaving noisy kids.
3. I didn't want to have to do 3 more years of writing,math,science etc, then end up teaching one of those. when i really just wanted to teach history. plus here you end up subbing for years. i remember in school our pe teacher would be a math teacher so he taught math in pe for my sister. its like making a doctor be a mechanic. why would you make someone who knows a bunch about science and loves it teach math for example. teachers without passion for what they teach have a harder time getting kids to learn. I'd been a terrible math teacher i hate it. but my highschool math teacher loved it. he would end up covered in chalk after each day lol.
the whole system is so underfunded and messed up and cares way more about test results then if kids actually learn. theres a bunch of great teachers mind you but they are forced to follow the system.
24 Oct 2014, 5:36 am
