Teaching in 2012 - Teachers...Is It Worth It?

[erinlough]

2. Smarminess, we are in exactly the same place and your post is right on the mark.

For the first time in my life I have advised friends to discourage their children from going into education. There is not much of a future in my opinion and who wants to go into arofession where
you start off being the bad guy?

That is what has happened in education and one of the reasons I left it. It is a hard enough job without being criticized for it constantly.

By the way I loved teaching for 30 of my 38 years in it and still love the kids, it s just impossible to do what is being asked of teachers now. On top of that my passion was Special Education, and I was good at it. Those kids are now not wanted in classes by anyone, when the teachers job depends on test scores. I couldn't watch it happen anymore.