Most education majors teach elementary school. Talk to them about what they actually have to teach; for example, the pedagogy involved in learning to read and the linguistics involved in writing development and spelling.

Same.

So this is insulting in a lot of ways, but FYI many (most?) teachers are not education majors. They have BA degrees in the field in which they teach, and MA degrees in teaching.

I’m so sorry. I really feel for you.  I left the high school classroom in large part because I could not continue to be teacher, social worker, and therapist. I was too exhausted just trying to give a good education to continue to take on the other two roles and there was no one else to do them. I get you. 

You don’t get planning periods plural. If you are working a ‘regular’ schedule you get one 52 minute planning period in middle and high school. That is usually eaten up with administrative tasks. When do you think teachers plan all the lessons for the next day? Grade all the work? Make phone calls to parents? Have…

Can we cut it with the people who teach are actually dumb thing? I, and all the teachers whose SAT/ACT scores I know, did very well indeed. SAT/ACT scores are also not all that likely to reveal much about general intelligence beyond a certain point.

This is not the article for you, friend.

one of my Korean students (I teach college and have quite a few international students) told me that they call teachers “nation builders” in Korea.

I am in my 22nd year of teaching. While raises pay the mortgage, more than anything I would want more support for special education and English Language Learners (our district doesn’t even have an EL department any more and we have a TON of English Learners, we are in SO Cal!). I also really wish there was better and…

If you think the amount of work teachers do outside of school hours is overstated here, you don’t know any teachers.

As someone from a family full of teachers an enormous part of the problem is not just financial but structural. I’ve had two siblings quit teaching jobs in the last few years; both times it was 100% for administrative purposes and not financial.

I’m a teacher. I’ve been a teacher for a long time. My experience is only in an urban setting so I can only speak from that, but here is my two cents:

Allow me to indulge in an unhinged rant:

See but Cardi actually used to be a stripper. It’s how she used to keep herself alive, it’s how many women do. And she’s spoken out about issues that affected and continue to affect the women in her old field.

Can I just say that I am so used to powerful men getting away with terrible acts, that I had to read this twice to make sure I hadn’t mis-read?

Tiny holiday party at work. We did secret Santa with a $20 spending limit. We list 3 items we want, throw it in a hat and draw names at random. I got a gift card. It was for more than the $20 we agreed on, but even so I was disappointed.

Name a single definitive action that Trump has taken to positively impact Black unemployment. Go ahead, I’ll wait.

Republicans are deathly afraid of Ocasio-Cortez because they just can’t stop talking about her.

And Dipshit Donny Junior forgot that A O-C will have real power to eff with his worthless nepotistic ass as of next month: