Why one teacher decided to quit

[Curt James]

Curt you sound disgruntled. I'll bet she's really fat and homely.

Not at all. I'm grateful. Late to teaching (at age 40) and wish I had started sooner! Art education is important.

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[Curt James]

I don't understand how a district administrator with no teaching experience and no knowledge of the curriculum in place, much less the inherent value of studying great literature can possibly make such a decision, but there you have it

Hopefully, for the sake of your students, that district administrator will move on to another distict ASAP. Edit: Better yet, they'll take a job in some other field entirely.

so has anyone seen idiocracy? funny but probably a prophetic movie.

It's pretty funny

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I'm sure there are teachers that are passionate about their job, but most do it for the time off. People constantly complain about their salary, yet they chose the profession and knew the range of pay.

There are plenty of careers with creative scheduling. Always thought that four 10-hour days would be great. My best schedule for hours was 12-9 p.m. Those have to be my peak hours. I'm definitely not a morning person and neither are a lot of my students.

And I can't agree on your "time off" comment as so many of my co-workers have summer jobs outside of education or, yes, teach summer school classes.

I do agree that it doesn't make sense to complain about your salary when they tell you your starting salary and what you can expect to earn in the years to come based on time in service as well as once you've completed additional credits. There's no guesswork or it should come as no surprise when you look at your paycheck.

rep owed curtis james

Thanks, but rep everyone who has participated in this thread instead, ceazur!

there is a direct link between the household income and scholastic achievement in OECD countries.

I've heard that as well. Higher income translates to more gizmos a child can be entertained and informed by, additional family trips, comfort so far as food and clothing and shelter are concerned, along with a bajillion other things. Money won't automatically bring happiness (or top grades), but poverty is probably not going to be a big boost either.

 

[ceazur]

Guess I just get sick of hearing people complain about salary when often they could be grateful instead. She could stay in education and get paid more simply by moving to another area. Perhaps she's already investigated that option and chose health care instead.

MDR, I'm not knocking your choices whatsoever. But this woman just rubs me the wrong way for some reason.

I come from the world of retail where 20k is more likely than 100k. I also worked several factory jobs, all three shifts, weekends, overtime, loud conditions, dusty crappy work and at the most made 30k for those efforts.

Teaching has been a true Godsend in that regard with its 33k to start on an abbreviated year of work, all first shift, "overtime" as scheduled by your own choice, days off typical at the sight of a single snowflake, no weekends unless you choose to go in to get caught up, reimbursement for college classes and, most importantly, the true delight at working with children who—for the most part—looooove the subject I teach.

Rep owed curt. So be quiet an accept it