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should i quit my cushy bullshit job to go back to school to be a teacher? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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i hate my cushy bullshit job where i make obscene amounts of money. should i quit my job and become a teacher? here's what i'm thinking so far:

pros:

i won't hate my job anymore
my job is a real job where i actually contribute to society
summer vacation sounds dope

cons:

maybe i still hate my job
my job would be a real job where i do work
i won't make obscene amounts of money
wtf grad school is expensive

alternatively, are there other jobs i should try to do instead? mind you i have no skills and would probably need to go back to school.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd love that, too. But until then teaching kids nothing is going to make them even more endangered within the prevalent system that they're going to be forced into as imminent adults.

As some have already said, it's less easy to propagandize some essential classes such as math, and throwing out the whole thing for performative "propaganda free" purity reasons isn't doing the students any favors.

[+] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

are you trying to argue they should become a teacher

No. I already said they shouldn't.

a significant portion of the job is teaching propaganda and / or abusing neurodivergent kids

That does happen and it is terrible and it has contributed significantly to my own decision to leave the profession. Again, once again, my point is that doesn't mean that teaching itself or the public school system should as a whole be abandoned or abolished. It is in dire need of improvement and restoration, even if that currently seems out of reach.

Saying "it's all propaganda" sounded to me like a defeatist condemnation of public schools in general.