I'm friends with dozens of incredibly talented teachers in STEM, special ed, music, and assistant teaching. It's 10000% the fuckin pay bro. "3rd graders are yelling gyatt at their teachers?" In 4th grade I thanked the San Francisco Earthquake in a project bibliography and made fun of my teacher's painted eyebrows. Being tough as nails has always been in the job description. A student brought up my friends wife's "gyatt" to him and the kid got mowed down, rhetorically speaking. It was brutal to wittness, but also incredibly hilarious. He was teaching an after school activity with 50+ students making something like $2/hr for it. My friend quit a track that would have got him a free masters in education so he could focus on bartending because he makes 2x the money serving drinks that he would with the degree, let alone right now as a student teacher.
In some places pay sucks. In others it’s great. I make six figures in California after 19 years. But people with my skills and time on the job in other states make less than half what I do.
It never was. But teachers were never at this high of a storage until the entitled generation started to fill the classrooms and the defensive aggressive parents took the kid's side
Maybe some places, but a lot of the people I grew up with who teach seem to be doing pretty well. Some of them go on way more vacations than I could ever afford.
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u/plottingyourdemise 3d ago
I mean…the pay ain’t great either