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Originally Posted by Bleeding Red
- Is kindergarten teacher a $100k job?
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Why would Kindergarten teacher not be a 100k job? This is another example of parents/public thinking they know what teachers do but clearly do not. Kindergarten teacher is as hard if not harder than any other teaching job. It is a job that takes incredible amounts of time to prepare for and if you think that all they do is let kids play without a spending time thinking about the activities they put out and how they promote development then again you are clueless.
As for some of the other questions I would say they are good teachers and bad teachers, just like there are good police men, good accountants, good lawyers and bad versions of all those.
In my time working in schools and outside of schools I would say the ratio of good teachers/bad teachers is much higher in the good category compared to other places I have worked. It seems many want to paint the picture is way more to the side of bad teachers. It always makes me laugh that the people who are constantly railing against teachers have all these anecdotal from their "friends" who are teachers about how they do no work. It is possible I guess but having worked in schools for 5+ years and been married to a teacher for 20 years with other teachers in the family, I have never seen the level of laziness these stories portray as being normal.
The vacation timing and child care is also a double edged sword often overrated as well. I have been much more involved in child care for our kids because I can be flexible in when I start/finish my job, much easier to take time off as well if needed. My wife has to be in her class the same time everyday, she has no flexibility. When we want to go to Disneyland the times we get to go are the busiest dates in the year.
This doesn't mean that there aren't perks, this isn't meant to be complaining that teachers have it so much harder. But it is frustrating (and silly) when so many myths and flat out lies are spread about teachers, that anytime these are corrected it is portrayed as whining and that people seem to always make the vast minority of bad teachers out to be the norm.