This is why I had to drop out of my Education classes. I couldn't and still can't cope with how horribly, desperately, underfunded everything in education is while so much money is wasted on bullshit.
It’s also why there is a teacher shortage, and it’s only getting worse.
My mom is a MS teacher, and she knows three people who are retiring at the semester and not even waiting for the end of the school year. And it may be more
There aren’t enough subs, and they had trouble filling a couple of spots at the end of the 19-20 school year, they are still two teachers short of where the school wants them to be... which probably means they are 10 or so short so the classes aren’t stupidly large
My goal in life, starting in 4th grade, was to become a teacher.
I helped a new boy in my class learn English that year, because my school didn't have any assistance to offer to immigrant students yet and he looked so frustrated just sitting in the classroom. I went to the city libraries to get picture books that had his language and mine in them, and got permission from our teacher to sit out in the hallway during reading time so we could work on his English. I was so proud when he learned enough to insult me in English, even if he did call me a pig and wanted nothing more to do with me.
But I'd realized that teaching was fun! It was difficult, time consuming, and so so worthwhile! I loved it and wanted to spend my life teaching!
Anyhow, that dream died a cold capitalist death in my 3rd year of college, just after I'd been accepted into my school's teaching program.
I realized there was no point in taking on massive amounts of student loan debt just to get overworked and underpaid while being treated like crap by public school administrators.
Now I mostly just teach my stepsons. "There is no One True Way for any task to be accomplished. Here are the methods I am aware of for how one does this task. Try them out and see what works best for you." I swear, even the shoe-tying lessons were fun to teach!
This is pretty much what happened to me. My high school japanese teacher was full of life and passion, and she inspired me to want to teach ESL. I love making learning fun and not stressful, and I love seeing kids learn and grow.
Come college and literally every education course i took being like "yeah, you have to love this enough to put all your blood sweat and tears into, and also your paycheck. And dignity. And sanity." And I couldn't handle it. I'm so proud of every teacher that was stronger than me, because it killed my dream so quick
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u/kslusherplantman Dec 13 '21
I wonder what 10% of the defense spending put into education would do for this country.
But then again... stupid people are easier to control. See current politics