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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]There are still many women who go into teaching as a job to help raise their own children. They leave after a few years or switch to even more part time positions. [b]They have chosen the profession for it's part time status [/b]and you have to realize their needs as well. They can be good teachers, but are probably more interested in the working conditions than the salary raise every year.[/quote]

This is happening less and less (the choice to teach because a person has children).  Back in the day, you had the "old maid" schoolteacher or the nuns.  It was not something you did when you had kids because it is hard to be in front of kids all day and then go home and deal with your own kids.

I don't know what gives you the idea that teaching is part time.  It is very much full time (and more) for the "on" 10 months (typically work is taken home and teachers plan and correct on weekends).  There are meetings and emails, etc.  Yes, there is a summer break, but I would not characterize this job as one for "women who want to raise their children".  [/quote]

Perhaps not for the actual job, but the homeschooling forums are filled with people who got their teaching license or teachers who left their professions to teach their children. The teachers who end up staying for the long term though are not typically like this especially in the general ed classrooms.[/quote]

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