BTDT? Rather than retire, shift to teaching part-time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I retired after 30 years in an ES and now substitute. I wouldn’t have been able to afford to only teach part time.

Subbing has been good so far. I’ve enjoyed it. I get my pensions (state was full, district pension is slightly reduced), and I sub on my own schedule. No meetings, planning or grading plus I don’t work in the evenings or over the weekends.

This. And if you pick up some long-term assignments, you can get a pay bump and sick days (here at MCPS).

MS and HS are usually fine with 1/2 subs, just let them know your availability. Its harder in ES to do this.

But just so you know, there is absolutely no teaching in subbing. All of the work is posted online by the teacher and the students complete it while you sit there and stare at them. Its boring as hell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I retired after 30 years in an ES and now substitute. I wouldn’t have been able to afford to only teach part time.

Subbing has been good so far. I’ve enjoyed it. I get my pensions (state was full, district pension is slightly reduced), and I sub on my own schedule. No meetings, planning or grading plus I don’t work in the evenings or over the weekends.

This. And if you pick up some long-term assignments, you can get a pay bump and sick days (here at MCPS).

MS and HS are usually fine with 1/2 subs, just let them know your availability. Its harder in ES to do this.

But just so you know, there is absolutely no teaching in subbing. All of the work is posted online by the teacher and the students complete it while you sit there and stare at them. It’s boring as hell.

DP
Not for ES though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please just retire. Make room for new educators.

What new educators? My neighbor works with a local university's teacher prep program. She said this year's graduating cohort started with appr. 45 students back in their freshman/sophomore year. They are down to 8 seniors and 3 of them aren't planning to go into teaching when they graduate. She said they used to have 50+ students graduate every year and nearly all of them went straight into teaching jobs. Not anymore.

This needs to be blasted. People don’t realize just how drastically the numbers of graduating teachers have dropped. And that doesn’t even include the predictably large amount who will leave the field in their first five years.

[Anonymous]

Retired teachers I know mostly substitute or tutor..the school has created part time jobs for a few, like part time teacher aide. I think at some point it allows them to wriggle out of benefits too.... So they love it. Tutoring is probably the most lucrative depending on the rate in your area or if you join a reputable organization . They often let you set your own schedule - independent school

[Anonymous]

Become a parent advocate and tutor. You will be working with a set of parents that are active parents and you will get paid better.

Better clients, better pay- what more can you ask for?

[Anonymous]

So if fulltime equals unpaid overtime for teachers, does that mean partime equals unpaid full-time for teachers. I do t recommend this profession to my students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if fulltime equals unpaid overtime for teachers, does that mean partime equals unpaid full-time for teachers. I do t recommend this profession to my students.

One of my teachers discouraged me from going into the profession, and that was in 1998. I actively discourage my students now, and I hope they do a better job listening.

I’ve graded 10 hours this weekend already and I’m on track for a 70 hour work week. I work with a part-timer. She says she regularly works 40-45.