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Toon: Become a California Teacher! (Original Post) n2doc Feb 2014 OP
k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t Laelth Feb 2014 #1
I don't know why anyone goes into education nowadays. JDPriestly Feb 2014 #2
The idea is to make education sulphurdunn Feb 2014 #4
It once was that people told you, "If you want to be a writer . . . another_liberal Feb 2014 #3

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
2. I don't know why anyone goes into education nowadays.
Sat Feb 8, 2014, 09:18 AM
Feb 2014

If the Los Angeles Times spent as much of its ink on articles about how parents should raise their children to succeed in life and in school as they do on bashing teachers because the children of negligent parents don't do well in school, teaching might be a rewarding profession.

But since the ink (and air time) spent not just by the LA Times but by most of the media on teacher critiques way outweighs the ink and air time spent on parent education, the teaching profession is less and less rewarding and hardly worth preparing for.

I would counsel any young person choosing a profession to think about 20 times before going into education. Hey! Nursing is hard work, but rewarding, I hear.

 

sulphurdunn

(6,891 posts)
4. The idea is to make education
Sat Feb 8, 2014, 11:52 AM
Feb 2014

attractive to pliant people who are just passing through on their way to other things, like TFA folks. Since they burn out after a year or two, the pipeline never backs up, wages never go up, the profession is deprofessionalized, teacher quality tanks and all of the above are used as excuses to accelerate the privatization of the system. It's a winner all around for everyone but kids, teachers, parents and taxpayers.

 

another_liberal

(8,821 posts)
3. It once was that people told you, "If you want to be a writer . . .
Sat Feb 8, 2014, 11:51 AM
Feb 2014

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. . you'd better learn how to go hungry."

These days, I imagine, that's what they tell you if you plan to go into education.

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