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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It used to be that teaching was one of the best jobs around — decent pay, good work–life balance, and a fulfilling career with three months of paid vacation. Yet when I talk to current teachers, they don’t seem to feel that way anymore in any of these areas.

What exactly has changed in recent years that turned teaching from a dream job into such a difficult one? Do you think teachers now see students, administrators, and parents as ungrateful?[/quote]

Lack of autonomy in the classroom. 
Lack of discipline and not being able to discipline problem students.
Federal funding addiction creating problem students who destroy classrooms and schools since they won't kick them out.
Political Correctness stifling a creative learning environment.
Mandatory "continuing education" bs during summer vacations.
[b]Summer vacations cut from 3 months to barely 2 now. [/b]
Teacher's unions in many states sucking up their paychecks.

The list goes on. [/quote]

cry me a river, lol[/quote]

[b]One of the main reasons people go into teaching is the summers off with the kids. It be what it be. [/b]

Pay more and the shorter summer vacation wouldn't be such a thing. Teachers get around $15 per hour as it is. $20-25 per hour average if you work at an inner city school like in The Substitute movies where you deal with stabbings and gang fights. [/quote]

Yep, summers off with their kids. Plus all the breaks, extra holidays, snow days etc. [/quote]

When a friend (who was a teacher) and I (who worked in an office) retired, I calculated that I had worked in essence 7 more years - based on her summer's off.  You can't put a price on those 2 months off, every single year.[/quote]

But you were paid for 12 months of work. She was paid for 10.

And when you work 60 hour weeks as a teacher, you work more hours in 10 months than many work in a full 12. My husband works 50 weeks a year; I pull more hours in 40 weeks than he does in 50 weeks.

So that unpaid summer is a perk on one way: it gives teachers the chance to breathe after a 10-month marathon of overstimulating days, exhausted nights, and weekend work. [/quote]

She was paid for 10 months because she worked for 10 months. She also didn’t have to pay for childcare over the summer. [/quote]

And you are paid for 12 months because you work for 12 months. I’m guessing you got paid considerably more, too.

And, as a teacher who has worked most summers of my career, I still pay for childcare for the summer.

There are misconceptions about teaching are all over this thread. There seems to be this thought that we have 7.5 hour, relaxing days and then some glorious paid summer where we sit around with margaritas.

The reality for many of us is 10-12 hour days as well as unpaid trainings and work sessions over the summer. [/quote]

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