I love teaching, but the job of being a schoolteacher scares the heck out of me. Trying to earn the respect of 30 kids, while working from some standardized lesson plan, it sounds awful. I wouldn’t last a month.
Plus there’s the problem of having to relearn subjects to such a level of mastery that you can teach them effectively. Like 2nd grade math isn’t hard at all obviously but it’s really hard to synthesize and break down all material in a way that a developing mind can grasp it.
I took classes which would qualify me to be a teacher. The biggest thing that scared me out of it were the unions and the fact they’re not even legally questionable sometimes. I didn’t want to become that. In the United States, the occupation has so much control that the head of the teachers’ union is considered the most dangerous individual in the nation according to a poll/ranking. Not sure if anyone would be willing to accept that as context for my answer though.
I love teaching, but the job of being a schoolteacher scares the heck out of me. Trying to earn the respect of 30 kids, while working from some standardized lesson plan, it sounds awful. I wouldn’t last a month.
Plus there’s the problem of having to relearn subjects to such a level of mastery that you can teach them effectively. Like 2nd grade math isn’t hard at all obviously but it’s really hard to synthesize and break down all material in a way that a developing mind can grasp it.
I took classes which would qualify me to be a teacher. The biggest thing that scared me out of it were the unions and the fact they’re not even legally questionable sometimes. I didn’t want to become that. In the United States, the occupation has so much control that the head of the teachers’ union is considered the most dangerous individual in the nation according to a poll/ranking. Not sure if anyone would be willing to accept that as context for my answer though.