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I have a PhD and was offered a position with DCPS a year ago and the salary was 65k. [/quote]

😱 This is tragic. WTF is wrong with this country. [/quote]

My DS just finished his freshman year of college and is majoring in math and secondary education.  He went to a private high school and really wants to be a high school math teacher at his alma mater.  However, he is realistic that there won't be openings every year for a math teacher so he'd  most likely have to work in the public schools.  I love that he has the passion to teach.  But he has very expensive tastes.  I hate squashing his dream but he also has to be realistic about how much money he'll earn as a teacher.  On the plus side, as long as he doesn't do something stupid, he'll probably never have to worry about unemployment and he could easily move to another area of the country and find a job.  There is a huge demand for math teachers.  It is so awful that we pay teachers such low salaries.  [/quote]

He needs to face reality unless you plan to supplement his income. Expensive tastes and being a teacher are a bad combination.
It is smart that he is double majoring though. He could always teach for a few years and then switch to something else. [b]Most people don’t realize that teaching is a very hard job.[/b] It is very draining and the the hours are completely rigid and inflexible. [/quote]

The job is no harder than any other job and you get every holiday and all summer off. The flexibility is similar to any other job that expects you to actually. do. your. job.  Try working your ass off for 20+ years in a 60hr. a week pressure cooker big law firm.  Teaching is not a hard job. [/quote]

That's the view if you don't have to do everything teachers have to do.  How many jobs make you the sole host and director of 25-30 hours of meetings every week? How many office workers have to prepare that much original content EVERY WEEK? How often does a lawyer have to figure out or even care if his colleagues know what he is talking about and alter his presentations for those who don't get it yet? How many office workers have to deal with their coworkers' parents complaining about their kids' experience with your firm? Do you have to notice or care if someone in your staff is bullying someone else? How about drugs in the workplace?

That just scratches the surface of what teachers face.[/quote]

And one more, if your coworkers fail at your workplace, it's YOUR FAULT.[/quote]

Um, I get that you are on a diatribe, but yes, I am responsible for running 20 hours of meetings a week. And yes, I am responsible for my mistakes and for complaints from my clients. And, well, if the people who report to me fail, it is my fault.  So yeah, teaching is pretty much like a lot of other jobs.  Just with more vaca.[/quote]

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