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I'm only in my 3rd year. My first two were in an awful school. I leave work with a smile on my face more days than not now. I'm still figuring things out but I think I'm really going to like this.
I LOVE teaching! I would have taught anything, I'm just a true teacher at heart.
I teach music, I have students in my room starting at 7:20, about a half hour before school starts. Then I teach 10 half hour classes everyday, practically back to back. I try to leave by 4:10 everyday so I can then go exercise. There is one day a week that I have to leave at 3:30ish because I need to bring my daughter to swim lessons.
I'm only in my 3rd year. My first two were in an awful school. I leave work with a smile on my face more days than not now. I'm still figuring things out but I think I'm really going to like this.
I'm glad to hear that. I remember some of your posts from before. Weren't you in a private school then? I'm curious as to the change you made.
I love it, especially on days like today when I have off. I love it in June, when I sit on the beach and watch the pretty girls walk by, I love it when the economy goes into the tank because of greed and still have a job and health care, I love it when I can make one girl cry and another throw up because my curriculum forces me to teach about aggrevated sodomy, I love it when I tell my students they will be doing the 8th grade reunion tour, I love it when my problem children are sick from something I gave them or they got into a fight in another class and I can teach the kids who care, I love it when I go home at 2:30 and the rest of the world still has at least 2.5 hours to go, I love it when I tell people I teach and they tell me "i'm so sorry."
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I hate teaching, always have. I don't mind the students, I mind my colleagues, who are generally boring, intrusive and a bother (and all have Ph.D's, so much for higher education!)
I count down the days to retirement. My problem is, it's 15 years off!
I love teaching. I love seeing kids have those ah-ha moments and I get great pleasure when they tell me that they never understood something until I explained it in that special way. Makes me feel all fuzzy inside.
I don't love all the crap that goes along with it, like the endless push to practice for the test, administer mock tests, review mock tests with students, practice for the test again, review for the test again and finally test.
I wish schooling was the way it was when I was in elementary school. Those little things that I remember from school, we no longer have time for. I wonder what kids today are going to remember from school.
I agree with you. I love teaching, the kids, and my hard working colleagues.
I don't care for the slackers, inept administrators, enabling parents, the No Child Goes Untested mentality, and the grade inflation that seems to run rampant. School has changed a lot in the last ten years and not for the better. It's so sad to see.
same here. for as bad as it might be, at times, I have never wanted to do anything else. I can't imagine doing something like office jobs or bank jobs that my brothers have.
I like my job. Like Ivory, I walk out of school smiling more than frowning. The kids are fun, I like talking to them, and I like the act of giving people new, interesting information that they didn't have before. I'm in my second year, but I don't think I'll do this forever.
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