Toon: Become a California Teacher!

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[Laelth]

1. k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t

-Laelth

[JDPriestly]

2. I don't know why anyone goes into education nowadays.

If the Los Angeles Times spent as much of its ink on articles about how parents should raise their children to succeed in life and in school as they do on bashing teachers because the children of negligent parents don't do well in school, teaching might be a rewarding profession.

But since the ink (and air time) spent not just by the LA Times but by most of the media on teacher critiques way outweighs the ink and air time spent on parent education, the teaching profession is less and less rewarding and hardly worth preparing for.

I would counsel any young person choosing a profession to think about 20 times before going into education. Hey! Nursing is hard work, but rewarding, I hear.

[sulphurdunn]

4. The idea is to make education

attractive to pliant people who are just passing through on their way to other things, like TFA folks. Since they burn out after a year or two, the pipeline never backs up, wages never go up, the profession is deprofessionalized, teacher quality tanks and all of the above are used as excuses to accelerate the privatization of the system. It's a winner all around for everyone but kids, teachers, parents and taxpayers.

[another_liberal]

3. It once was that people told you, "If you want to be a writer . . .

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. . you'd better learn how to go hungry."

These days, I imagine, that's what they tell you if you plan to go into education.