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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our HS teachers are overall higher quality than our elementary and MS teachers. They do grade in a timely fashion. The only 2 that don’t are the ones who put toms of thought and effort into each essay they grade. One teaches English and AP Lit. The other teaches History and AP History. They are both exceptional teachers and warn the students that it will take several weeks. They don’t assign another writing assignment during that time.

I work at an elementary school. Those teachers spend a huge amount of their plan time chatting and hanging out. Then they complain on fb about having to take papers home to grade, and they talk about how that stack just sits there for days because they get distracted by Netflix.

The best and happiest teachers tend to be second career teachers. They have worked jobs with similar salaries where they did not get summer/winter/spring break in addition to many personal days. They had to work until 5 or 6. They had to go to work on snow days. They don’t complain about having to grade papers at home because they know that most professionals have to bring work home. They don’t complain about how teachers are under appreciated because at their last job they didn’t get 20+ gifts for their birthday/Christmas/End-of-year. They also didn’t get an entire Appreciation Week where they could go around town enjoying discounts and free food/drinks. Or have groups of volunteers come in to their work all week to bring them catered meals and other surprise gifts. [/quote]

Not my experience with career changers. Most of them earned more at their former jobs because nearly every professional job with the same educational requirements pays more than teaching. Read the threads about people who switch to teaching and they admit that they thought it wouldn’t be as hard as it is.  [/quote]

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