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Location: Southeastern Idaho | I had to chime in here....saw this on Yahoo News this morning. Secondary teachers made the list of the Top 5 Jobs people most regret having. As a secondary teacher my self much of this is true.
Secondary School Teacher
With an average yearly salary of $43,800, the highest in the the top 5, secondary school teachers rank third in regret with 43%. They problem is that would-be teachers often don’t fully understand what the job involves until after they have started, McLeod says. “I had a friend who was a secondary school teacher and realized on day two she had made an enormous mistake. She was awash in the paperwork required of an educator, as well as the unending parent interventions and the reluctance of students to do the work. She didn’t realize the politics of working in a secondary school system.”
Parker says the challenges that face teachers are daunting. “Although teachers are responsible for preparing the next generation to lead our nation, the education profession is often marred by a lack of resources, dwindling support, and modest salaries,” she says. “Instead of simply teaching children, teachers must simultaneously parent and counsel all while navigating the stressful terrain often found in the bureaucracy of school districts. It takes a remarkable human being to become a teacher but it takes a golden human being to stay one.” | |
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Location: Southeastern Idaho | bennie1 - 2014-01-22 7:37 AM
komet. - 2014-01-22 8:27 AM horsegirl - 2014-01-22 7:59 AM komet. - 2014-01-21 11:03 PM I'm not a teacher... But I was blessed by spending 7th and 8 grades in a 3 room school-house with a teacher that taught those two grades plus 6th grade in all subjects... Greatest and most intelligent person I ever met in my life. Alexander O'Day... And he was supporting 9 of 11 children and a wife at the time.. Teachers today do not impress me. Well then. Thanks for that stab. Until you know the teachers you are grouping into that big generalization, it is not fair to make that comment. Fair has nothing to do with it... I look around and see what is graduating from high school... Kids that can't read their way out of a wet paper bag.... Can't make change out a cash register without it telling them how much to give back... Private schools are still getting the job done but public schools are not.
In general, if you are sending your children to private school, you value education and are engaged with your child's learning process.
Plenty of parents who's children go to public school value education and are involved and those children are successful.
Unfortunately, many children have parents who are not involved or even interested in their children's success at school. They don't care if their child behaves, or does their homework, or disrespects the teachers, or even goes to school, much less gets an education while they are there.
You will have children that have good parents that fail, and you will have children with no support that succeed, but they aren't the general rule.
BINGO! Education MUST be valued in the home to be valued by the student at school and sadly that isn't the norm anymore. | |
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| This is my 29th year in the classroom. Chose the profession because it was one of those "safe" jobs. Thirty years ago, a certified teacher could get a job. Period! Now, we are a dime a dozen. The only way you are guaranteed a job is if you are fluent in both English and Spanish. Medical insurance for educators was UNBEATABLE 30 years ago. It was fully pd by the districts (inTX). The middle plan for an individual now runs $500 plus a month, and if you have a district that pays half you are lucky.
I taught high school and jr high for 20 of those years. There's one reason I would refuse to now. Cell phones! | |
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| komet. - 2014-01-22 8:40 AM
magic gunsmoke - 2014-01-22 8:33 AM
Komet, I welcome you to come sub in my classroom for a week.
Then we will have a conversation about education, and "what it takes."
I'm not a teacher... I know I'm not... But I got a good education a long time ago in a public school and I don't have to go sit in a classroom to see what is coming out of schools today with a diploma. You can squawk all you want but the facts are the facts. Kids today are coming out of school unable to read or work numbers and don't know Madagascar from Tierra del Fuego...
I'm glad you got a good education. I assume you value that education and have put it to good use since high school graduation. I also assume you are out there sharing your education and knowledge with others and trying to make the world a better place while doing it. | |
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