re: What type of people go into the teaching profession currently?

Teachers at my kids’ Catholic schools are:
1. White women who actually enjoy teaching and helping children. Most of their husbands are in oil and gas and machinery sales and insurance sales and project managers and engineers and pharmacists and doctors and such. The teachers don’t need the teaching income but do it because they want to.
2. White men who want to coach championship caliber sports.

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those who cannot do, teach.

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To quote a pedophile

I went into teaching in 2002 after moving back to Leesville following my 2nd retirement (NASA, Photo Studio) and found myself with not much to do.

In the spirit of "giving back" I started substitute teaching and soon they wanted me to 'get certified' to teach math full time. I jumped at the chance because I really loved interacting with the students - and they seemed to respond to my 'method' - which was nothing more than teaching the BASICs - not of these stupid acronyms - they had to teach ME what things like PEMDAS, FOIL, etc meant.

It was AMAZING to watch them completely absorb the most basic elements of math, after struggling to memorize acronyms and what the letters meant, and when they were applicable. Everything to me was just pure LOGIC that was easy to follow.

HOWEVER - once I got my certification and started teaching full time, the wrath of the supervisory state in the form of "Common Core Standards" started hitting below the belt.

I reviewed the 'standards' and for math they were perfectly ok - if not logical.

It was the IMPLEMENTATION of the 'standards' that became the nightmare - every supervisory position from the POTUS on down had to have their OWN 'proof' that 'they' were doing 'their' jobs!!!

SO - then became the tsunamis of Review Meetings where we presented our "progress' in meeting the standards - and every one of them had a different 'comparison chart' to show the 'improvement' from the testing that had been done years before and today's testing results.

SO - the LABOR began in having to review 4 year old student 'achievement' in the form of charts showing how much more they had learned following the 'new standards' (never mind that now 3/4 of our time was required researching past data and preparing charts, and writing reports on how individuals were 'progressing' and attending meetings where high priced 'experts' from who-knows-where came in to show us new ways of folding paper into interesting forms so that we could present a new 'way to learn'

After a couple of years of that and some significant health problems, I called it quits in early 2013 - just could not attend even one more of those idiotic meetings.

I still miss the basic elements of teaching - but that 'new' crap was a loser for everyone except the supervisory class.

That’s not the hard part anymore.

The hard part is you have two fent babies and two shitheads in a classroom. Disregulated kids who almost cannot control their emotions and who will be triggered by almost unidentifiable actions. They will make learning close to impossible for the rest of the class at unpredictable times and intervals.

They will be sent to office and, because they have an IEP that says it’s just in their nature to be a piece of shite kid, they will be returned to the classroom to repeat the cycle until they behave so egregiously that they get a 3-5 day suspension. The class gets a brief respite and the process begin again.

What I have witnessed are the "teachers" are taking a lot of days off and the very incompetent "substitutes" are filling in. Hence, students are held back and do not get me started on the "special needs" students that wreak havoc on the stable classroom environment.

Do not get me wrong, there are incredible teachers out there. But the school administrations do not care about the students. The school administrators only care about how they "look" to the government officials in charge.

We must get the federal government out of the school environment.

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If I were king I’d make teachers income the same as doctors, but the requirements also just as strict as doctors.

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That won’t work. Ever. The economics don’t support the idea.

Teachers in Missouri are, for the most part, compensated completely adequately if the students were disciplined properly. The benefit of summers off, matching schedules to your kids and good health insurance and amazing pension benefits only work if a teacher isn’t scared of being beaten up in the classroom.

Fix the discipline situation and you’ll largely fix the teacher shortage issue.

You're an idiot.

My wife and I have made solid financial decisions up to this point and are well on track to be able to retire in our 50's if we wanted to. If things keep goin this way for the next 10-15 years I think teaching for prolly a decade or so instead of retiring out right for a change of pace and to stay in the workforce while having a schedule synced with potential grandkids is something I am considering and is the reason i have started working toward my master's and teaching requirements to make this an option should I choose it.

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My wife and I have made solid financial decisions up to this point and are well on track to be able to retire in our 50's if we wanted to.

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I've known some people with interesting motivations to teach and do well financially.
One was an engineer who turned 30 and realized that he didn't enjoy the job even though he made good money for 8 years. He was invited to build a house on his wealthy dad's large rural property and he got a job teaching HS science classes. They were so scarce of science teachers that they allowed him to work full time while he took some classes for the stupid teacher's certificate. He and his nurse wife also had free child care with his parents living very close by.
Another case was a couple who both taught HS science. They moved to Alaska for 10 years where teachers made much more money than La. They lived like paupers since stuff is expensive is Alaska. They saved enough to move back here and buy a nice house after 10 years of saving. Then they went back to teaching here until retirement.