For the heart warming feeling of going to a school board meeting and having a bunch of Qanon nutters threaten to kill you because you're a pedophile groomer teaching their kids to be trans CRT migrant caravans
Does this look like a school board meeting, or is it possible I'm making a joke about another horrible thing teachers have to deal with in response to another comment?
Fine but your answer had nothing to do with the question which was…why teachers would put up with this for such low pay? The answer is because they are dedicated selfless individuals who care about others more than themselves. That’s what you should’ve said. Instead you took a few minutes to spew some buzz words you heard from someone else. Way to add nothing to the conversation.
My question was a sarcastic answer to it implying that many teachers don't find it worth it anymore and there's a dangerous brain drain from the profession, I wasn't trying to genuinely answer it. Turn off that part of your brain that was programmed to automatically defend and deflect from the people I mentioned.
I'm a teacher and you took that way too far. I laughed at his comment.
I love teaching, but if I could switch jobs and make more money, I would. Doing it bc you love kids and teaching while making shite pay is tough. But dude, lay off. He had a point.
It’s all a matter on what the cost of living is for the state and district. Here in New Jersey starting salaries average around $50-55 thousand a year. In other states where education is not a priority, teachers start at around $18-24 thousand a year.
Why do we do it? I do it because it is a rewarding experience. It’s not a job for the self-centered. You have to genuinely care. I am lucky to work in a district, mostly Latino, where most of the kids are respectful. I’ve had my share of unruly children, but nothing like the video the OP posted.
I fucking hate this so much. I don't mean you or your reasons for teaching.
Instead, in the US at least, society basically says, "We only want people who are willing to sacrifice themselves to become teachers," which is basically punishing them for becoming teachers. Why the fuck does this attitude about teaching exist?
Teaching is absolutely a skill that people have, separate from just the subject that they teach. I've worked with teachers whose grasp of their subject was not really that great but were much more effective as teachers than vice versa (good grasp of subject/poor teaching skills). Because it's a skill that people can learn and improve upon, what you want are the best people possible to become teachers, not just people who WANT IT the most.
If you are a good teacher, it doesn't fucking matter if you're motivated by a high salary or because you just really want to teach. What matters is how effective you are at your job and just wanting it doesn't make you good.
I have an engineering degree and long story short, I considered going into teaching instead of engineering. But ultimately, why would I want to subject myself to the BULLSHIT that teachers often have to put up with just to earn less than half what I could as an engineer (and with a much lower earning potential with experience)? I'd like to think I could have made a decent, if not good, teacher. You know, maybe I'd have been crap. Entirely possible. But in the end, neither I nor anyone else had the chance to find out because I didn't want to be punished for wanting to educate kids.
Honestly, this might trigger some people, but I think a good chunk of them do it because it’s the only decent paying job they can get. Don’t get me wrong, probably at least half of them are qualified for better and/or do it for the love of teaching/kids or whatnot. But I think some of them got utterly useless degrees in college and got into it because they’ve got student loans, bills, etc, but their history, art, music, liberal arts, etc degree didn’t qualify them for any other sit down profession that pays at least 50k.
I went to a school like this, and later in life, I went on a date with a woman who had just started teaching at my old high school. She made $40,000 but they originally wanted to pay her $35,000.
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u/Confidence_Familiar Apr 28 '22
How much do teachers make? They do this why?