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re: What are the benefits of being a high-school teacher?
Posted on 12/20/24 at 10:59 pm to offshoretrash
Posted on 12/20/24 at 10:59 pm to offshoretrash
Get his doctorate and work at a university. Much better pay.
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Posted on 12/20/24 at 11:33 pm to offshoretrash
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How do I talk him out of being a teacher?
Have them work as a sub teacher in the nearest public middle school
This post was edited on 12/20/24 at 11:37 pm
Posted on 12/20/24 at 11:53 pm to offshoretrash
He should consider teaching English internationally. Go teach English in Korea and bang the students.
Posted on 12/21/24 at 12:11 am to PabloSmash
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Every engineer makes the job harder than it has to be. They are also entitled cry babies
says the operator that thinks he designed and built the plant
Posted on 12/21/24 at 12:13 am to BeerMoney
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Benefits are all the poon
In all my years of 4-H Club there was a serious shortage of poon.
Posted on 12/21/24 at 3:45 am to TexasTiger08
quote:absolutely
So you sabotaged yourself.
Manufactured a bit of adversity, helped toughen me up
Would have sucked had I turned up soft and had my ol lady run off with my best friend ya know
Posted on 12/21/24 at 3:58 am to offshoretrash
Making him watch Breaking Bad and that take note of that old janky car that Walter White has to drive as a teacher. Then show him pictures of ugly rich guys and the hot girls that flock to them. The lesson there is to learn how to cook meth and be the best at it.
Posted on 12/21/24 at 4:01 am to offshoretrash
I think teaching is best done by people with real experience in the real world. Book-learning can never be the only basis for true teaching credentials.
Teaching was the last of my three professions and I started when I was 68, with my NASA and Photography eras already done.
Teaching was the last of my three professions and I started when I was 68, with my NASA and Photography eras already done.
Posted on 12/21/24 at 5:03 am to offshoretrash
Tell him that while he is in college to work as a sub on the days he doesn't go to class. He will get to experience teaching, how schools run, and get to hear from people who are currently doing it.
Posted on 12/21/24 at 5:27 am to ChineseBandit58
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I think teaching is best done by people with real experience in the real world. Book-learning can never be the only basis for true teaching credentials.
Teaching was the last of my three professions and I started when I was 68, with my NASA and Photography eras already done.
What did you teach and how did real world experience help you?
Posted on 12/21/24 at 5:30 am to offshoretrash
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How do I talk him out of being a teacher?
Somebody has to live in a small apartment in the hood and drive a 12-year-old Altima.
Bad choices are still choices.
Posted on 12/21/24 at 5:31 am to offshoretrash
You only work about 157 days a year. AIG.
Posted on 12/21/24 at 5:56 am to offshoretrash
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My son is an A student. He's very outgoing and in every organization in high school he can get in. He loves Ag and is VP of their FFA. He wants to be an Ag teacher. I think he's too smart for that and should go in engineering or something like that.
How do I talk him out of being a teacher?
Really? You have a kid who knows what he wants to do in an admirable profession and you wanna talk him out of it? Man let him figure it out.
Posted on 12/21/24 at 5:56 am to offshoretrash
Hard to complain about a job with that much time off and early retirement
Posted on 12/21/24 at 6:13 am to LegendInMyMind
quote:thanks baw
LegendInMyMind
things are going well. Just fighting off the occasional bug every two weeks still 
dealing with the fact that my daughter is almost one somehow. Hope stuffs good with yall as well!
Posted on 12/21/24 at 6:34 am to offshoretrash
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What are the benefits of being a high-school teacher?
Job security. Excellent health insurance and retirement benefits (depending on what state). Lots of time off.
You also have the freedom to engage in your own personal intellectual pursuits. If he likes learning and teaching, then he has the ability to do that with application in his profession. While many teachers lament the micromanagement of modern education, it’s really not that bad if you have tenure. You can do what you want as long as you can connect your ideas with the state standards. I find that to be a pretty fun perk of the job.
Your salary is set and 100% known. Your raises are defined and you can guarantee pay increases that contribute to your pension. Every time you get a higher degree, your salary goes up. In Alabama, it’s in $4000/year increments. So getting a PhD or EdD will lead to a $12k raise on top of your base salary. Get into a better school system with a stipend and you can make decent money. There are often programs available for getting degrees cheap. Friend of mine got her MA in ESL for free from UAB with a grant because we had a dearth of ESL teachers. She paid for her EdS but now is finishing her EdD online with a special program that is covering her tuition.
My wife and I are teachers and we make $144k/year. Family health insurance costs $200/month and covers everything for cheap. Defined pension plan. Literally cannot be fired without seriously fricking up in life or with the law. Plenty of time off to enjoy each other, our kids, and our lives.
This is state and school dependent. I highly recommend working in Alabama because we actually pay teachers pretty well and COL is low. Avoid “save the world” schools like in inner cities or too rural. Specializing in a content area can be good too. Not enough quality physics or calculus teachers around, for instance.
But there are plenty of cons to being a teacher as well, but I’m sure you’re aware of those.
This post was edited on 12/21/24 at 6:39 am
Posted on 12/21/24 at 6:43 am to TexasTiger08
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Damn, we are up to 6 months off
He said "half the year off", so if you want to be technical, he's close.
This post was edited on 12/21/24 at 6:44 am
Posted on 12/21/24 at 6:52 am to offshoretrash
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He wants to be an Ag teacher. I think he's too smart for that and should go in engineering or something like that.
One thing parents need to figure out is that capability doesn't equal being happy or even being good at certain jobs. I wouldn't recommend teaching to anyone, but if he actually has a plan and a realistic way to execute it, he's ahead of about 90% of kids these days.
Posted on 12/21/24 at 7:11 am to offshoretrash
Life is way more than money. Teaching has many non-salary benefits as compensation.
If he’s passionate about it and clearly would be truly content being a teacher I wouldn’t dissuade him but do your fatherly duty and be transparent about pros/cons.
I believe teaching could be a backup plan.
If he’s passionate about it and clearly would be truly content being a teacher I wouldn’t dissuade him but do your fatherly duty and be transparent about pros/cons.
I believe teaching could be a backup plan.
Posted on 12/21/24 at 7:25 am to lsu xman
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Go teach English in Korea
Teaching in Korea or Japan is not a bad job. Teachers there are well paid and highly respected.
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