My god. These are the same exact people I thought looked like wierdos when I first moved to the United States as a toddler in the early 90's.

Okay, I’m going to have to stop you right there. Teaching is absolutely a profession that people get into “on purpose.” People teach because they love kids and they love learning. Period.

I’m not defending her, but considering Germany’s demographics, the overpopulation criticism doesn’t make much sense.

A teachers’s salary is not going to go up the way thep the way that an engineers’ will. I’m an enginere. It took me 2 years to beat my mom’s salary as a teacher who had been working for 30 plus years. And if I’d negotiated, I’d have beaten her out of the gate.

I mean... you COULD be, but so could any parent. Mine was, and he was in his 20s when I was born. It’s always a leap of faith, and 40 is completely reasonable, and whoever said that to you needs to stfu.

Whether it was a man or a woman doing this, it’s incredibly unfair to the children.

“The female bod” didn't exactly make this one happen by itself. I hope everyone comes out of this reasonably healthy and well. Feminism shouldn't mean we have to applaud medically risky choices.

LOL I used to work for TFA specifically on diversity initiatives, so I’ll plead the fifth on that one. But “Only a very small percentage of their recruits are white”? Uhh...no.

I don’t know that I’d necessarily agree with your comment about the curricula of these programs, but you see a lot of future teachers come in having internalized the white-savior narrative. I teach at a Hispanic-serving institution, so even in my class, my students, who are only about 40-60% white in any given…

Chicago Public Schools have been actively getting rid of black and veteran teachers and replacing them with Teach-for-America-esque young white teachers, despite CPS students being overwhelmingly black.

It should be obvious to you why I’m not here to call out specific programs or curricula. And I’m also not understanding how you can lament the lack of diversity in the field, read the experiences of myself and other people on this thread having very different experiences (either as faculty or students) within teacher…

I think one could argue that the point of this article would be to change the process of becoming a teacher to make it more attractive to a more diverse group of people.

It makes sense. Minorities have grown up with being treated like crap, why would they go into a field that perpetuates that?

That’s because teaching is a thankless, low paying job that’s looked down upon by most of the populace. We (minorities) want to make money and move up the socioeconomic ladder and you can’t do that if you become a teacher. The only type of teacher I would consider becoming would be a college professor because they…

Perhaps African Americans—when presented with opportunities for higher education or advanced degrees—are less likely to choose low paying, low status professions such as teaching in favor of degrees that foster upward mobility. I’ve noticed that the “noble” professions (teachers, librarians and to a lesser…

Are you saying that without viable role models, minorities tend not to enter certain professions? That systematic racism reproduces itself and leads to disparities like this? I’m SHOCKED.

Please. Please give us another choice. PLEASE.

At a public high school my sisters and I all attended at various points, there was a teacher who - rumor had it - slept with a bunch of his students. He left his wife for an 18-year-old former student almost immediately after she graduated, then the student dumped him, his wife TOOK HIM BACK YOU GUYS, and he’s still…

Ehhhh, I usually give guys the benefit of the doubt on this one. The decent ones are still getting a ton of mixed messages from society about what is “right” to do on a first date. I’ve had guys seem uncomfortable because they believe that the you might have an expectation of him being a “good” date who pays for the…

It used to be that a woman was believed to be property of either her father or her husband.