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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Considering there are over 3M teachers and 5M nurses in the US that is going to limit the salary. I know most don’t want to believe it but they are common jobs that many many millions could do with some standard training.

What jobs with that type of quantity pay a high salary? Big tech is likely under 100k jobs that pay the big bucks.  How many high paid executives are there, likely under 1M. Who would pay these high salaries for 8M workers, the median wage is in the 60-70k range.[/quote]

Sorry, but that’s simply not true. If teaching really were a job that many millions could do with some standard training, it wouldn’t have such an incredibly high burnout rate in the first 5 years. The truth is, training only gets you so far. You can understand content, but you need to have a collection of personal and interpersonal skills to actually succeed in a classroom. Unfortunately, people who haven’t taught don’t grasp the emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual demands each day brings.

To be a good teacher, you need to be a strong communicator, listener, and collaborator. You need to be adaptable yet organized, patient yet timely, and understanding yet demanding. You need strong presentation skills that can successfully reach a wide variety of audiences. You need to be very good with data, including how to create opportunities to gather accurate data you can subsequently track and organize. You need time management and the ability to hold your hunger and bladder. You need the ability to be at your 100% A game each day, regardless of what is happening in your personal life. You need to be ready to be around (and responsible for) many other people each day without a moment to yourself. Teaching is a 180 day sprint with no real chance to relax until the summer hits. That type of endurance can’t be taught. You have the ability or you don’t.[/quote]

None of this can be true. How do I know this?
Because during the pandemic all we heard from teachers is that weren’t going to risk getting sick to be a babysitter. Nope, anyone can teach and if students flailed and experienced learning loss, it was because the parents weren’t doing their jobs i.e, being a teacher. In essence teachers convinced struggling parents and students that anyone can teach and being in a classroom was mere babysitting services. 
That is the house you built. 
Nurses showed up, police showed up, firefighters showed up, hell retail workers saved the day. But teachers? Nope they don’t “babysit “. Own that. [/quote]

PP, why do you keep trying to compare teachers to cops and retail workers?[/quote]

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