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Gym teacher seems like a good gig. If a kid’s annoying just play dodgeball and put him/her on the bad team.
They can bitch all they want. Just don't listen to them. I don't listen to nurses whining. I always tell teachers to stop complaining about pay though. You knew the deal when you signed up.
The workload is heavily dependent on what you do. My wife puts in tons of hours outside of what she is actually paid for. She probably does legit work close to 60 hours a week. But it is what it is. Neither of us are the type to complain. Most of the changes in education (like more testing, NCLB, etc...) over the years hurts the kids more than anything.
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Teaching is the one profession where tons of clueless people think they know what they are talking about because they could color well in Kindergarten and were so so at fractions. So while teachers complaining is an issue it is largely dwarfed by other people whining about education in general.
I had a grad project about stats and test scores and despite what people think America tests well if you really understand the numbers. Other countries look to the way we teach in terms of actual critical thinking and learning. That doesn't get clicks though.
I had a grad project about stats and test scores and despite what people think America tests well if you really understand the numbers. Other countries look to the way we teach in terms of actual critical thinking and learning. That doesn't get clicks though.
How do teachers make time for all of that political talk I hear about that’s totally real and not made up?
I'm sure there are a few isolated cases of something inappropriate going down but in real life it generally happens the way I described earlier. But once people here something the outrage takes precedence over reason. Generally people are looking to be outraged though.
Same here....LOve history. When I first attended college, I wanted to be a cardiologist...Pre-med. FOund out real quick a much, much different major was needed....
We don't get summer pay. We are simply a contracted employee so can choose whether to have our salary split up into 10 months or 12 months. Just is x divided by 12 instead of 10 and paid out that way. We just spread our salary out so we have a check every month. That may be what you mean though.
Yeah, working 60 hours a week on a teachers salary is something I’m glad I avoided. I’m thankful there are people willing to do that but I’m too lazy for that ****.
Yeah, I can't imagine doing the 10 month deal. I could do it now but not when I was a young teacher starting out and didn't really know how to budget. I would have been screwed in the summer.
Between nurses and teachers those are two union professions that complain more than anyone. Wouldnt care for either job tbh.
Yeah, just like them. But I get it. There are definitely teachers who whine too much.
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Anecdotally, there isn’t another profession that comes close to those two with people I know
No chance I could do it. I wouldn't even want to be responsible for them much less try and teach them something. There's no telling how much Mom spent back into her class.
Trucker drivers is another profession I couldn't do but super thankful for. I could technically do it, but I couldn't mentally.
I was just wondering if you had tried to verify the number.Dang if it's not another Memphis number. sigh.
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