Teachers, would you encourage your children, or other young people,

[HockeyMom]

to become a teacher? I worked with a woman whose daughter was thinking of getting an Education degree. She told her own daughter, "Are you crazy?". When the young woman came into school, ALL the staff said the same thing to her, including the TA's.

They want to end Public Education, and replace it with vouchers to Charter, Private, and Religous schools. I put my 2 cents in on this. After 4 years of college, state certification tests, do you want to make $13/hour at a For Profit Charter school? Do you want to work for a Parochial School with MORALITY contracts where you can be FIRED for getting divorced, using BC, or getting IFV treatments? Do you want to run your own life, or let them?

Back in the 80s and 90s, my Programmer husband would tell ANY young person who was going to major in IT, DO NOT DO IT. Now, it's the same with Teachers.

Is this the future of Republican controlled Education?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/school_ceo_tax_cheat_vOOYtQ8ZyoG5whylK14QYP

[MichiganVote]

1. Why should they go into teaching when they are not respected, not protected, and not paid?

[Ilsa]

2. A shortage of teachers over several years

might bring salaries up, just as it did for nurses many years ago.

[Orlandodem]

3. No no no no.

The pay is low. No respect. Society hates teachers. Stress level is through the roof. Salary is not even nearly commensurate with expectations. There is no good reason for someone to go into education today. None. Tell her to run as far from the College of Education as possible.

[surrealAmerican]

4. Who will be teaching this young woman's children ...

... in another fifteen or twenty years? It is worrying, isn't it?


Financially, it is a bad choice, but there are people who care about other things.