Must be great to be a teacher these days. You get to crowdfund your supplies, get covid three times a year, and every time you read a book someone calls 911.
A Texas middle school teacher has been fired after reading an illustrated version of Anne Frank's Diary to her eighth-grade class chron.com/news/houston...
Can't beat the work environment.
Smelling a new set of 30 prepubescent kids every 45 minutes & living among the joys those hormones release upon the world.
I'm super jelly.
Hah---I started out with a tenure track position at a state college in the 2000s before moving on to the HS I work at now---I was paid more when I started than as an asst prof.
I remember graduating college with a CS degree and immediately making more money than my dad and his 25+ years of teaching experience
and that's BEFORE I got into big tech
I find once you can internalize that everyone ... EVERYONE ... who is decent or better feels like an imposter just like you, then it means you belong there, you just trick your brain into changing the set rule. Still feel like an imposter though, BUT.
I feel I should clarify: absolutely no bullying was going on. My coworkers were actually great and very helpful. It was just the crushing reality of how much I didn’t know yet.
For me (decades ago) learning by myself but peeking over friends' shoulders in the university's terminal room. I could see that they knew things I didn't but could learn them without exposing myself.
Teachers don’t get paid enough in blue states, either.
“Look I understand it’s annoying that Mrs. Clockpuncher will not answer emails, but she has a second job so that she can afford to live relatively close by. That’s why we got you a tutor”
Yeah, my mom's a retired HS teacher and is so glad to be done. Sis and bro-in-law are in the classroom.
The other 1/2 of family are RW nuts, but in education. I don't get that.
Oh, and don't forget... if crowdfunding doesn't provide enough money, you can participate in degrading activities such as "Dash for Cash"
www.today.com/parents/pare...
It ain’t always fun but staying focused on the kids and their needs helps.
Realizing your community will turn on you in a New York minute is disheartening when you would, quite literally, die for their children.
One of my private harp students is teaching in a middle school. Every week she has a new horror story. And it’s not the kids. It’s the parents and the administration. I don’t know how much longer she will last. Which is a shame cause her students adore her. And they are thriving under her guidance
Add to that being forced to use educational curricula that are not, unfunded mandates, and salaries that rival minimum wage workers in some places.
It’s why we have so many graduates beating down the doors for jobs.
/sarcasm
let's not forget the school board meetings where there's a possibility of a concealed carry bulging from someone's pocket at the mention of a Ta-Nahessi Coates book for discussion, or unruly kids trying to endanger themselves for a TikTok.
I used to be an adjunct instructor of Psychology and Political Science. I loved teaching college freshman.
There is no way I could do it in this current world.
Teaching was already such a hard job. The fact that there are now these layers on top. I really worry for the future of public education (and I say this as a teacher and someone that LOVES teaching)
