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Originally Posted by eDave
What draws one to being a teacher?
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At one time it was a respected job. Today it can give great benefits-if you can stand the BS.
Today, I can not tell anyone to go into education. No one respects teachers. We are constantly under fire. Funds suck. Job security is low unless you are tenured and experienced like me. But I still worry. The pay and summers off are not always the greatest when you can make more money somewhere else.
I can't wait for the Millennial generation educate the FU generation.
Kids would rather be entertained than educated. My student teacher supervisor said "You are not up there to be Johnny Carson" Today, we are expected to be Jimmy Fallon.
We are not allowed to look at kids wrong. Discipline is non existent. Students do not need self responsibility.
I am a white male. I feel like I am consistently called racist by kids, some admin etc. Some believe that hiring more teachers of color would help students of color. But that would mean people like me would have to retire or be fired. Fire for race??? Yup. That's legal.
http://www.startribune.com/bipartisa.../?refresh=true One author is a teacher in my building. There is no evidence that teachers of color raise grades of students of color. The day of more TOC will come, it is just not now. Maybe 10 years from now when kids in school get to college.
I act like more of a dad to some of the kids than their own dads. I do not talk to them like kids. I talk to them like people. In a mature way.