OT: High school teacher calls it quits

[Coronita]

[quote=walterwhite]hmmm. I was just mentioning to my teen that i thought high school science teacher would be a great job for him. he was concerned about the money, maybe the status, and I said, hey, come on man, you’d make enough to live off of, and you’d have all summer to do all the various intense hobbies he’s into, and you get home early every day. and you like hanging out with people and explaining various things to people. i think it could be a very cool occupation for the right fit of person who values lots of time off and is not a superhard worker and who happens to find the work easy. not that teaching (or any job) would necessarily be easy for anyone. it’s the same with all jobs; the purpose of lfie should be to find a job that doesn’t rub you the wrong way, to find a fit where you ar enot bitching and moaning the whole way. any job could be easy or hard, it all depends on the personality of the worker.

it honestly struck me that my older kid would probably fit in as a hs teacher.[/quote]

Maybe it would be better at a private school…..

[svelte]

[quote=captcha]The body of knowledge available to Isaac Newton was not as large, but I doubt he was finding any excitement in linear functions. Also, the person discussed is a teacher, not a student. And I did offer Euclidean geometry as an option 🙂

I assume high-level math at high school includes topics like infinitesimal calculus and numbers theory and I would expect good teachers to get excited about Newton vs. Leibniz controversy or Fermat’s last theorem. I suppose I should assume less.[/quote]

There are people out there who get excited about accounting and program management, two subjects that I find extremely boring. Everybody has their own topic of fascination…just because it isn’t our cup of tea doesn’t mean we should poo-poo what lights someone else’s fire.

[svelte]

[quote=captcha]The body of knowledge available to Isaac Newton was not as large, but I doubt he was finding any excitement in linear functions. Also, the person discussed is a teacher, not a student. And I did offer Euclidean geometry as an option 🙂

I assume high-level math at high school includes topics like infinitesimal calculus and numbers theory and I would expect good teachers to get excited about Newton vs. Leibniz controversy or Fermat’s last theorem. I suppose I should assume less.[/quote]

There are people out there who get excited about accounting and program management, two subjects that I find extremely boring. Everybody has their own topic of fascination…just because it isn’t our cup of tea doesn’t mean we should poo-poo what lights someone else’s fire.

[svelte]

[quote=captcha]The body of knowledge available to Isaac Newton was not as large, but I doubt he was finding any excitement in linear functions. Also, the person discussed is a teacher, not a student. And I did offer Euclidean geometry as an option 🙂

I assume high-level math at high school includes topics like infinitesimal calculus and numbers theory and I would expect good teachers to get excited about Newton vs. Leibniz controversy or Fermat’s last theorem. I suppose I should assume less.[/quote]

There are people out there who get excited about accounting and program management, two subjects that I find extremely boring. Everybody has their own topic of fascination…just because it isn’t our cup of tea doesn’t mean we should poo-poo what lights someone else’s fire.

[svelte]

[quote=captcha]The body of knowledge available to Isaac Newton was not as large, but I doubt he was finding any excitement in linear functions. Also, the person discussed is a teacher, not a student. And I did offer Euclidean geometry as an option 🙂

I assume high-level math at high school includes topics like infinitesimal calculus and numbers theory and I would expect good teachers to get excited about Newton vs. Leibniz controversy or Fermat’s last theorem. I suppose I should assume less.[/quote]

There are people out there who get excited about accounting and program management, two subjects that I find extremely boring. Everybody has their own topic of fascination…just because it isn’t our cup of tea doesn’t mean we should poo-poo what lights someone else’s fire.

[svelte]

[quote=captcha]The body of knowledge available to Isaac Newton was not as large, but I doubt he was finding any excitement in linear functions. Also, the person discussed is a teacher, not a student. And I did offer Euclidean geometry as an option 🙂

I assume high-level math at high school includes topics like infinitesimal calculus and numbers theory and I would expect good teachers to get excited about Newton vs. Leibniz controversy or Fermat’s last theorem. I suppose I should assume less.[/quote]

There are people out there who get excited about accounting and program management, two subjects that I find extremely boring. Everybody has their own topic of fascination…just because it isn’t our cup of tea doesn’t mean we should poo-poo what lights someone else’s fire.

[pemeliza]

“I knew that math was an area where I would never, ever worry about getting a job as a teacher. If you’re in math or physics or chemistry, you can write your own ticket.”

If you go into teaching for the money and job security you are going to be tremendously disappointed … which it sounds like this lady is.

If you can tell yourself that you love teaching so much that you would gladly do it for free then you might be a good teaching candidate. Then you still have to find out if you are any good at it. Being a good teacher is a difficult and under appreciated grind. If you are not good at it, you will find that it can be a humbling and sometimes even humiliating career choice.

[pemeliza]

“I knew that math was an area where I would never, ever worry about getting a job as a teacher. If you’re in math or physics or chemistry, you can write your own ticket.”

If you go into teaching for the money and job security you are going to be tremendously disappointed … which it sounds like this lady is.

If you can tell yourself that you love teaching so much that you would gladly do it for free then you might be a good teaching candidate. Then you still have to find out if you are any good at it. Being a good teacher is a difficult and under appreciated grind. If you are not good at it, you will find that it can be a humbling and sometimes even humiliating career choice.

[pemeliza]

“I knew that math was an area where I would never, ever worry about getting a job as a teacher. If you’re in math or physics or chemistry, you can write your own ticket.”

If you go into teaching for the money and job security you are going to be tremendously disappointed … which it sounds like this lady is.

If you can tell yourself that you love teaching so much that you would gladly do it for free then you might be a good teaching candidate. Then you still have to find out if you are any good at it. Being a good teacher is a difficult and under appreciated grind. If you are not good at it, you will find that it can be a humbling and sometimes even humiliating career choice.

[pemeliza]

“I knew that math was an area where I would never, ever worry about getting a job as a teacher. If you’re in math or physics or chemistry, you can write your own ticket.”

If you go into teaching for the money and job security you are going to be tremendously disappointed … which it sounds like this lady is.

If you can tell yourself that you love teaching so much that you would gladly do it for free then you might be a good teaching candidate. Then you still have to find out if you are any good at it. Being a good teacher is a difficult and under appreciated grind. If you are not good at it, you will find that it can be a humbling and sometimes even humiliating career choice.

[pemeliza]

“I knew that math was an area where I would never, ever worry about getting a job as a teacher. If you’re in math or physics or chemistry, you can write your own ticket.”

If you go into teaching for the money and job security you are going to be tremendously disappointed … which it sounds like this lady is.

If you can tell yourself that you love teaching so much that you would gladly do it for free then you might be a good teaching candidate. Then you still have to find out if you are any good at it. Being a good teacher is a difficult and under appreciated grind. If you are not good at it, you will find that it can be a humbling and sometimes even humiliating career choice.

[all]

[quote=eavesdropper]
Given your interest in the situation, and your high level of mathematics literacy, perhaps you can volunteer your time to your local public school system, either providing support to overworked teachers there, or tutoring struggling students. [/quote]

Here is an idea – take some of the money spent on TSA and pay skilled and educated people to teach. If you depend on volunteers you’ll get people like Ms. DeRegnaucourt. It is not her fault, it is the system.

[all]

[quote=eavesdropper]
Given your interest in the situation, and your high level of mathematics literacy, perhaps you can volunteer your time to your local public school system, either providing support to overworked teachers there, or tutoring struggling students. [/quote]

Here is an idea – take some of the money spent on TSA and pay skilled and educated people to teach. If you depend on volunteers you’ll get people like Ms. DeRegnaucourt. It is not her fault, it is the system.

[all]

[quote=eavesdropper]
Given your interest in the situation, and your high level of mathematics literacy, perhaps you can volunteer your time to your local public school system, either providing support to overworked teachers there, or tutoring struggling students. [/quote]

Here is an idea – take some of the money spent on TSA and pay skilled and educated people to teach. If you depend on volunteers you’ll get people like Ms. DeRegnaucourt. It is not her fault, it is the system.

[all]

[quote=eavesdropper]
Given your interest in the situation, and your high level of mathematics literacy, perhaps you can volunteer your time to your local public school system, either providing support to overworked teachers there, or tutoring struggling students. [/quote]

Here is an idea – take some of the money spent on TSA and pay skilled and educated people to teach. If you depend on volunteers you’ll get people like Ms. DeRegnaucourt. It is not her fault, it is the system.

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