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[quote=Anonymous]If I could do it again, just retired:

1. Wouldn't go into this field at all. I would have gone into speech therapy or OT back in the day. It absolutely was the worst adult decision I made as an 18 year old going to college. I taught for 37 years, public 17 years, private 14, some years overseas as well-  all grades, multiple degees and certifications, and I was good in my job. 
2. I never made enough money anywhere at any time -and it cost me long term, and my family, as well. If an 18 year old women is deciding on a career in private school, she is assuming she will be married and that spouse will be her source of income. Are we really encouraging young women to do that now?
3. I never had free time for 35 years. This is an all day job.  Physically and psychologically. 
4. In the last 15 years of my job as a specialist,  top of pay scale, supervisory mentor, graduate professor,  I used everything I had to keep  ahead of mental health and behavioral considerations in the classroom.  I mentored hundreds of teachers and watched many of them burn out and  have  one mental health crisis after another of their own. They were in debt, too, and couldn't leave this job because of the $$ they sunk into their education. Most of my colleagues old and young were on meds. Xoloft, Xanax, and sleep meds. 
5. Testing and metrics dominate everything and have turned this arena into a wasteland of piling more and more kids with issues into little boxes that look like something tangible for a spreadsheet.  But it's not real. 
6. Never, never, never,  get an undergrad degree in education . It has no intellectual  or practical generalization into anything else. 
Hope this answers your question. [/quote]

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