re: Being/becoming a public school teacher in America is the worst career possible

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-locked down 8 hours 5 days a week with other peoples kids… no way out

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I get a 90 minute break from kids daily. Grow up.

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-germs, sickness, viruses everywhere

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Should translate to killer immunity. I’ve called in sick maybe 4 times in 8 years.

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-no lunch hour

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Grow up. Also, the way it sounds, you can’t afford lunch.

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-$20-$45k a year

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That’s a lie. I make mid 50s. I could be content with that but I now work on breaks and any day off, including this week

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-insurance and benefits are gone

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I get $500 every year deposited in my hsa, retirement pension isn’t bad

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-it’s basically become a daycare

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Find it within yourself to lay down the law on Day one and stay disciplined. This is possible.

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Warn your kids before they get an degree in education.

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Ha. I actually agree with this. Majored in history and got certified while teaching within 6 mo.

What’s there really to complain about? You either like sharing knowledge and like the interaction, or, ya don’t!
I’ve intentionally not sought other higher paying jobs in education because I like the classroom and think I’d be bored and unfulfilled in an office.

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I dated a teacher once. She didn't understand how the moon worked. Like she thought it physically changed shape from crescent to half to full. She was very confused when I explained the lunar cycle. Pretty sure she still has no idea how it works.

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You sound like the real problem in this scenario. First date: So let me tell you about moon phases. She dodged a bullet.

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I had a class of kids adamantly tell me that I could not subtract 19 from 27 because the '9' was larger than the '7'.

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Bro, you were the math teacher. They didn't know because you didn't teach them.

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The administrators would never berate the students about their lack of care about education or about their low IQs.

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Bruh, you think it would go over well if a principal started yelling at students for having low IQs?

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It pisses me off the amount of kids I get in Algebra 2 that couldn't give 2 shits about it and I can't blame them because they'll honestly never need it.

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There’s a high school within the geographical confines of East Baton Rouge Parish that is very close to fully integrating all of the complaints regarding “one size fits all”. It’s incredible the number of pathways available.

Also, for saying amount of kids.

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Cool anecdotal evidence

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You too

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Private schools allocate much less money per student that public schools in Louisiana and have exponentially better outcomes.

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Link?

Are those private schools providing free breakfast, lunch, and after school care?

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I hope you are not a math teacher, because I'm not sure you know what "exponentially" means. It is virtually impossible to measure relative school outcomes that way.

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Link?

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I'm not sure you know what "exponentially" means. It is virtually impossible to measure relative school outcomes that way.

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He's right but it has to do with the demographics of those students than the strategies used. My school spent about 3k less per year per student but our ACT average and college acceptance rate was much higher than any other school in the parish. We usually came from middle class families where the parents had average to higher natural IQ's.

My daughter (no pics) is a teacher.

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-no lunch hour

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False

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-$20-$45k a year

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False

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-insurance and benefits are gone

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False

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-it’s basically become a daycare

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For some teachers and parents it has. Not all of them.

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Especially for it to be your top figure

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Yeha, that's not close to median for top pay in the profession across the country.

Wife is a public school teacher in Terrebonne Parish. I believe she made around $37k last year. This is her 9th year teaching. Private schools here are significantly less.

This year, because of Ida, the only full week holiday break they got was Christmas. The others were reduced to 1 or 2 days. This year they will not get out until the 1st week of June. The "reduced breaks" are hard on teachers because it is extremely hard on kids to focus and produce in school for that long without a real mental break.

Even without the hurricane, she has about 10-15 min to each lunch, and half of that is spent tending to the kids opening drinks and food containers. Most days she doesn't get her planning period for a myriad of reasons. And several times a week, she has extra kids in her class because another teacher had to leave early to handle personal business so they split the kids between the other 4 classes.

Her job sucks arse, but she loves summers off with our kids (especially because I work from home), so she sticks with it. She started teaching after 2011, so the retirement requirements and benefits are significantly changed/reduced for her, as opposed to the older group.