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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]to the former teachers:

When I read your advice to a struggling teacher, I question why you left.

Can you share your reasons?  Were there certain obstacles you couldn't overcome, for example?  Or did you decide that the money wasn't worth it once you had to factor in childcare costs?  (I know that's the reason many of my colleagues opted out.)

just curious

I am in my 19th year - second career, btw - and I'm still hanging in there despite the many obstacles I face daily.  But I do have a masters plus 30.  So the money is more than enough to cover our morning care - and was enough to cover nanny costs when our kids were younger.

FWIW, husband teaches, too.  So summers are easy, as we don't need childcare.

again, just curious[/quote]

I left to go back to graduate school and get a Ph.D.  I liked many aspects of teaching, but found that other parts of the job were really tedious (grading, dealing with discipline issues, unhelpful parents, teaching to standardized tests, poor administrators at the building level, etc.) I taught high school in an urban environment so the amount of time devoted to discipline issues was really tiring.  If I taught elementary school in the suburbs I might have felt differently.  I now make less money teaching at the college level, but I have more freedom over my classroom and don't have to deal with students who don't want to be there.  At the college level, if someone wants to fail that is their business not mine. [/quote]

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