Anonymous wrote:You sound evil, op. Sorry!

+1.

And the DD could get AP certified, too. In my area, AP-certified math treachers make $125,000 per year.

Anonymous wrote:My dad told me once that if you try to pick your kid's college and major, you have a 50% risk of them hating their life....and you for making their decision.

Most people don't end up in jobs that are a direct match to their degree. And those that do, often change course at some point.

Let your kids drive their own life and their own happiness.

WTF did you revive a 6-year old post, unless you are the OP and are giving everyone an update on how their kid turned out.

How do people even find these posts?

Anonymous wrote:She can teach for a few years and if she doesn't like it, go to grad school. Your disappointment is understandable but there's not much you can do except support her dreams. It's her life to figure out.

+1 A college sophomore has their whole life ahead of them (god willing). Let her be, and let her pursue her dreams.

My dad told me once that if you try to pick your kid's college and major, you have a 50% risk of them hating their life....and you for making their decision.

Most people don't end up in jobs that are a direct match to their degree. And those that do, often change course at some point.

Let your kids drive their own life and their own happiness.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is so disheartening.

Who do you people want teaching your kids?

+1 Just think of how much better our education system would be if we hired teachers who were the cream of the crop. We still have so much to learn from countries that get this right.

In Greek city state, it was their equivalents of our Ph.Ds who taught their young. Socrates taught Plato. Aristotle taught Alexander the Great.

Teaching in the US, today, is a mess, and a degree in education means pretty much diddly when it comes to actually functioning in a typical US public school classroom. They learn how to create lessons and motivational boards, but not enough about how to work efficiently, truly differentiate, and deal with too many kids.

A degree in early childhood education is ridiculous, and I wouldn't support it either. It's not academically rigorous, it leads to a single set of low-paying job options, and it prepares you not at all for the job it says it prepares you for. I especially wouldn't support it at an expensive university.

I know lots of trust fund kids in education or the arts, go for it!

Anonymous wrote:it is disgusting that there are still men around (and I believe the posters in question are men) who see marriage as a TRANSACTION. They are probably the same ones who have clauses in their pre-nups requiring their wives to maintain a certain weight. People aren't possessions or objects or trophies.

While I have great respect for stay at home PARENTS (just as I do for teachers)....bright women who continue to stay at home when their kids no longer need them full time DO play into this dated stereotype. I wonder what their daughters make of how their talented moms spend their days.

I found out too late that my husband married so he would have someone to take care of him, and everything else going on in life, the house, the kids, the yard, the schedule, etc.
Yuck.