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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My favorite teacher- AP calc- was a former computer programmer. Best math teacher ever. And she opening told us she left a $250k+ job to teach HS math once her kids all were in school (5yo plus).

Maybe she knows she has a trust fund so why strive. [/quote]

If she hated the stress of doing computer programming work in an office and loves teaching AP Calc to HS kids she made a great choice.[/quote]

She liked her programming job for 15 years and then her teaching the other 15 years. Very intelligent, positive woman who never put down difficult disciplines. Hope you don’t talk like that around your kids let alone a classroom of them.

One thing is for sure. If you never try you never really know.  Think about all the nonsense and advice you’ve gotten from others to persuade you to give up or not try. Never be that person w regret of not trying.[/quote]

O.k. she loved both careers.  That's great.  She's the one who had to point out that she left a 250K job to go teach kids, though....[/quote]

She pointed that out if some wise ass wasn’t taking their math homework or class seriously. She wasn’t there for any other reason than to teach us math very well. She was incredibly effective teacher whom we all respected.  And this was in the late 1990s.

Is that Ok with you or do you just like nitpicking everything for no good reason.

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Why are you so defensive?  Nothing I said put down that teacher for making that choice.  10 to 1 she was simply trying to get her work schedule more aligned with her kids' school schedules.  I can see how switching to teaching worked out nicely for her.  Certainly that is an option for the people who like to work with HS kids.  [/quote]

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