This is why our teachers need to be paid better and respected. The stories my DD tells me about how rude and disrespectful the kids are to her hard working teachers are pathetic. I hear about the junk everyday. |
The fact that so many people don’t appreciate or understand that you don’t need to go to an “elite school” in order to be properly educated is one of the most disheartening and concerning things about DCUM. |
Incorrect. They offer a minor in education. https://majors.stanford.edu/education |
They charge shit ton of money like the amount of money you can buy a two bed condo you can live in for the rest of your life in DMV area Get real |
Good luck without money |
The stories my kids tell me indicate that many teachers are profoundly stupid and lazy, hence unworthy of respect. These teachers need to be fired not paid more. |
And a Master’s. |
Compared to most other professions - teachers work fewer hours a year. And all the stress I hear about from teachers - you have things that have to get done in a timely way, your clients are demanding (parents and teachers), and the expectations can sometimes seem overwhelming - is just normal work stuff. "Stress" is performing surgery, speaking in front of boards of corporations, flying a plane, negotiating national treaties, leading staffs in the hundreds through a recession. Could it possibly be that the mass exodus is occurring for reasons other than "stress?" Because most of the complaints seem like normal expectations of those with jobs. |
Paying full price for an elite school only for the child to become an elementary school teacher is something for only the wealthy. Period. To those people who said they are doing it or would do it because “the college experience, education, life is not about money, etc”, at least acknowledge your privilege. At least acknowledge that there was someone in your family tree (a spouse, a great-whatever, yourself even) who made a shit-load of money. Enough that descendants didn’t have to worry about money.
Do not criticize a hard working couple who scrimp and save for their child to also attend an elite university and then become an elementary school teacher. For people in those positions, ROI is important because they don’t have family money to fall back on. They are making their way themselves. |
At least they'd be adding value. |
I’m the PP. You’re welcome to join me at work for a week. I think you’ll have more respect for what teachers do when you actually see it. It’s high stress with no breaks. It’s 60+ hour weeks (every week). It’s impossible demands. It’s the reason why 2/3rds of my department has quit in recent years and why we have lost 4 teachers during the year this year. I came from a corporate setting. My teaching job is (easily) 3X harder than my old job. OP, here’s another reason to discourage a child from going into teaching. They’ll work their tails off only to be told they have it easy. |
Sure -- this would be a solid result. You are not sending a kid to private for a certain result. |
Need-based, yes, merit aid less likely. |
If you are full pay at an Ivy on one income, you're doing just fine (especially if you have been able to save over the years). Two incomes help to decrease the financial burden of affording college if you are already passed the full pay threshold. I would've rather let my kid go in-state to major in whatever she wanted (or pursue a double major) than make "sacrifices" and stress my kid out by dictating her academic choices. |
My son has never wanted to be a teacher after listening to me talk about the profession. |