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Originally Posted by ma-skis.com
Maybe you should be a teacher if it's so cushy. Your real world job sounds awfully tough and teachers got it pretty easy with the 6 hoursa day, 3 months off a year and free cake.
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Unfortunately, I bought into the teacher/union spin machine during my university years that told me teachers are underpaid and overworked. When I was in the real world with my two weeks off a year and started working out what teachers
actually earn per hour worked, it was really too late.
To be a teacher, it is ideal to start when you're young and fresh out of university to capitalize on the best possible pension with the earliest possible retirement. If I had gone back to get a Masters of Education when I was say 28, then graduated at 30, I would be putting off retirement too long. Plus it's difficult to go back to university when you already have a mortgage, etc. I know people who have done that, but they typically come from wealthy families and can afford to not work for a couple years while they get re-educated.
I certainly plan to encourage my kids to be teachers. Sweetest gig ever.
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Originally Posted by ma-skis.com
Knowing all that, explain to me why after 5 years, 1/2 of new teachers have quit, can't be the free cake could it?
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As if you didn't completely make that up. There is no way possible 50% of teachers quit after five years lol.
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Originally Posted by ma-skis.com
I get that everyone has a "valid" opinion on education since we all were in the system, but what you see as a student or what you see from that guy you know is radically different from what you see when you're actually doing it.
let me ask you this, do you ever have a few drinks when you go for your out of town meetings, kickback when they day is done? the teachers I know go out of town with a dozen kids in a hotel for an out of town basketball tournament watching hallways at midnight and making sure NOBODY is having a drink.
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I've seen teachers on field trips and it looks very stressful and difficult. I totally concede that - a very tough part of the job. The business trips I've been on have been way more fun than a field trip with a bunch of kids, and that's coming from a guy that hates business trips.
But, again, teachers have three months off a year. It way more than makes up for the three (ish?) days of field trips they take a year.