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Originally Posted by you&me
Re: the bolded... You really don't see what single factor teachers deal with that differentiates them and their level of job satisfaction?
Other. People's. Kids.
I've got a bunch of my own, and they're all young and they're all busy, so I think I'm probably exposed to more 'other people's kids' than average. And in general, to varying degrees, they suck. And that's just from the perspective of brief, casual interactions... I don't have to be responsible for them for six hour stretches, every day of the week.
Don't get me wrong, the vacation time and pension sound great, but you literally could not pay me enough to be a teacher.
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Totally disagree. I volunteer in a bunch of kid's programs, and so coach/lead/teach a lot of other people's kids. For the most part that's totally fine.
But my wife is a former-teacher (in her 30s, so not retirement age at all). She loved the actual teaching and the kids. She hated the bureaucracy, meetings, and absurd training requirements. Eg, she genuinely dreaded PD days because they were consistently way worse than actually teaching. One principal she worked for had mandatory meetings every Friday afternoon where she'd read aloud all the email she had sent them that week. Every other former-teacher aive met says the same thing - loved the kids, hated the bureaucracy.