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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question - WHY don't people who go into teaching know all of this?  It's one of the only professions I know where spending a semester in the profession (aka student teaching) is required.  You have an entire semester or more working in a school.  Are you not talking to the full-time teachers, the administrators, learning about what it takes?

I'm the child of a teacher and yes it is a highly stressful job, but for goodness sakes I see no reason why in this day and age anyone should be surprised by this.  Big law associates may complain but they know what they're signing up for.  Same with teachers, complain all you want but this shouldn't be a shock.  You did your student teaching.  Hopefully you engaged in thorough and in-depth interviews to get the job.

I agree we should compensate teachers more than we do, but I don't get the rest of it.[/quote]

Yep.  This thread is full of reasons that teaching is hard.  I agree with every single one of them.  That is why I am not a teacher.  I respect the people who are, and I think we should do better for them, but I don't understand culture of complaining or the apparent surprise about conditions and pay.

A friend of mine (late 30s) is on her fourth career change within the education field, this time from classroom teaching to curriculum development for state government.  Each new job pays less than the one before.  She seems surprised about the salary [i]every time[/i].  Her mom has always been a teacher, working hard for little money, but my friend repeatedly brings up how surprising it is that she is paid so little.  We were just on the phone last week and she was describing how her new job rewards tenure (it takes over a year to get in and get established, but once you're in you have good benefits and a pension and so on).  She says she'll likely quit within the year because getting in was such a pain that she's over the whole thing.  It's to the point I no longer want to see her, because she constantly complains about work as if it's something being done to her instead of something she is doing to herself.

Another teacher friend finds ways to bring up her low salary in any conversation.  She recently told me her salary was like being furloughed.  I [i]am [/i]furloughed and she didn't even know because I don't complain constantly.[/quote]

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