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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not cool to say this but look - not everyone is going to be a dr, lawyer, or banker. There are people who end up as teachers or managers at your local retail bank, or insurance agents and have perfectly respectable families and lives. Went to high school with many such guys and there’s nothing wrong with their lives. It’s just that they aren’t worrying about their promotion to equity partner or jetting off to London for a few days. More like a week at the jersey shore in the summer and a hope for a raise. Maybe start accepting that he’ll have a “regular” life.[/quote]

You're comparing teachers to bank managers and insurance agents?  Most of the teachers I know have Master's degrees.

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Teachers in the northeast can make good money too, especially considering the amount of time they get off.

I’d be happy if one of my kids wanted to be a teacher. It’s a very respectable profession imo.[/quote]

I know teacher defense is rampant here, but be honest with yourself about the kind of kid who goes into teaching.  IME it’s the B and C students in high school who are really jazzed about having an easy job (since you teach the same shit for 40 straight yrs) with summers off where they can still make decent money esp in the northeast.  Let’s be real – it is not the high school valedictorian who is headed to the ivys after high school that is desiring to come back to his school and teach 9th grade history for the next 40 years.[/quote]

It's also the students who went to college and got silly degrees that they couldn't use to make a living. I can't tell you the # of friends I had with English, Women's Studies, Art History, and 'Insert' Studies who are now teachers after they spent a good 2-4 years making now head-way in the career they wanted. [/quote]

THIS. And in my family, there a bunch of cousins who went into teaching bc they went to college to get the MRS degree majoring in some random subject. Mr. Right with money didn't come along (this is down south where people are more apt to marry about college graduation), so then they moved back home and continued to wait it out. Until age 24-25 where they and their parents became worried that they'd have to [gasp] support themselves one day. Every single one of them became teachers. And mediocre does not begin to describe them. These aren't the types that are worried about your kid's academic development -- all they care about it -- how long until the next school vacation. They bitch and complain if they have to go 4 straight weeks without any kind of day off. So yeah -- let's not put teachers up on a pedestal.[/quote]

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