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⌈ Secret Post #2486 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

+1

I was worknig full-time as a substitute teacher for awhile, and I think I taught at least a couple days at every school in my county. An then I burnt out and quit.

I want to teach only if I can teach "motivated" kids not because of classism or not wanting to do the hard work or whatever - it's because I like *teaching*. I don't like spending 80% of my time attempting to keep kids from killing each other/bullying each other into tears/stealing shit from each other/running out of the building/destroying school property/going out to smoke up in the bathroom/etc.

And yes, you can turn kids like that into 'motivated' kids, I fully believe anyone can be taught to love learning. You *can't* turn kids like that into motivated learners with one teacher, who isn't being paid enough to live within fifty miles of her workplace, in a classroom with no supplies, with 40 kids in a room that has 25 chairs and crappy climate control and unsafe conditions, when giving personal attention to any one student results in all the other students immediately attempting to cause physical harm to each other, while you have to follow a county-wide 'curriculum' that lays out what you have to teach the kids *day-by-day*, using a workbook designed by bureaucratic committee where half the pages contain mistakes that make them unusable, under constant threat of being fired if at any point you fall under whatever this year's mandated benchmarks are, and your supervisors have failed upward and give you no support, and the county bans you from touching the kids at all even for hugs, and..... (and for the record, the above describes suburban schools in a fairly well-funded district.)

Or, well, maybe *you* can? But the teacher who can do that is one in 1000. and an educational system based on the one in 1000 being willing to spend their lives working 60-70 hours a week for less that the living wage in crap conditions while paying off student loans for a professional degree is an educational system that's unsustainable.

Special Ed and Gifted classroom are less likely to meet the above description only because they tend to have fewer kids, have more adults per classroom, have more freedom for how the teachers choose to teach, and have only kids whose parents are directly involved in their lives (because 90% of kids don't end up in those programs, even if they need them, unless parents are involved. Because that teacher with seven classes a day of 40 kids doesn't have the time to do that for every kid.) If the kids in those classes are more motivated, it's because of the above reasons.

Anyway, I feel you, OP. There are careers where you can do teaching without being in a school setting - working in museums, libraries, and parks, for example - but the pay tends to be even more crappy in recompense, and there are a lot fewer jobs to be had. If you feel a real passion for this, you might want to look around your area and see if there are any community programs that use volunteer tutors? That can be really rewarding teaching work outside the warehouse school system. You could also maybe look at getting involved with groups like boy scouts/girl scouts/campfire (you don't have to be a parent!), teaching in a religious setting, or teaching classes through a hobby group like a hackerspace or yarn store or art center? There are plenty of places to find a way to teach a little, if you already have a nice steady boring 9-5 job to live on.