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I still would become a teacher. It's my lifelong joy, and it has been really memorable for me. However I would stick to a certain grade band of students.
I'm a paraprofessional who was planning to go back to school to get a teaching degree, but I'm not so sure I want to anymore. Between the pay and the amount of stuff teachers have to deal with from administrators, parents, etc., I'm not sure I want even to bother.
Agree with all of the above. Between a lot of the public begrudging our salaries, limited resources, administrative bull manure, right wing book banning attempts, and mandated high stakes testing it’s not the career I retired from around 2020. Considering the college kids having experienced the stress of the damn mandated testing while in school and the stress on the staff who didn’t swallow the toxic purple juice of it I totally understand why there is low interest in the career I loved.
I was thinking all the left-wing woke stuff we now have to deal with!!
I have a cute story that some might find relatable , or not. My nephew wanted to be a teacher since he was younger. Anytime someone in the family asked about his plans out of HS, he’d reply college for teaching. Then my sisters (one is a teacher) talked him out of teaching. They listed all of these cons and whatever pro was left over. Lol
He went to college and got a degree in the medical field I think) but couldn’t land a job. He kept applying while working odd jobs. Next I leaned he’s almost done w his teaching degree. He was hired in Ann Arbor . This is his first year and he loves it.
He wasted allot of time and money to get to the place you really want, but I’m so proud of his perseverance .
Honestly, I can’t see anybody that would want to become a teacher as most of the teachers at the school. I work at say they really have to depend on a spouse for the additional income needed to survive as a family. The teachers have a very strict schedule getting time off is usually only for an emergency having an actual vacation time is rough and students are very unruly this day and age I don’t care what grade it is. I’ve noticed elementary seem to be worse than the middle school. I’m at now just kind of a different unruliness, but you could consider going to school gig a degree college wise to become a teacher and the pay is not all that great so I don’t blame the people not wanting to become teachers
I should have never become a teacher in the first place. Administrators with too much power, politics, etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if AI was doing all the teaching by 2030.
I know when I became a teacher they told us that 50% of all new teachers left the profession in the first five years. I think that is still pretty much true. So really you need to be recruiting and training a surplus of teachers if you know you will consistently lose 50%
When I became a teacher, they really were doing that. Not so much, now.
That's what they want! Then, they can just do charter schools and have one teacher (making substandard pay) have 100 kids in a room on a computer. They save money on taxes, when their own kids go to a voucher-run school that prevents the great unwashed from attending.
Thirteen percent of teachers leave the profession every year. I personally love teaching, but I don't know if we convey that attitude to our students. Why would I want to go into a profession where the people in the profession are miserable? Teaching is also portrayed as overworked and underpaid. This may or may not be true. I think I make good money, especially considering the number of days I work per year.