Right now is the time to quit teaching, that is of course if you f****d yourself up by accepting a teaching post in the first place. Owing to social promotion, lack of manual arts programs for kids with low IQs, and over tolerance of anti-social conduct, your job has been rendered not difficult, but impossible. I quit to ship out with the merchant marine for 8 years then when I got tired of living at work I attended barber college so I could become self-employed. So I was a barber for 20 years until retirement. I wasted 8 years on teaching, an exercise in futility even back then in the 1980s. Honestly if I had to do it all over again I wouldn’t even waste my time going to college. I’d probably just enlist in the navy as a cook in order to qualify as a chief cook after switching to the merchant marine. Most people, no matter how high their IQ might be, are probably better off in the trades, especially if college attendance entails taking out student loans which cannot be shrugged off by filing for bankruptcy like any other type of debt can be. Remember my favorite refrigerator magnet which states: “never give up on your dreams unless your dreams are stupid”.
More to come. No consequences then leave. Public education is doomed if this continues. Bye bye 👋 I taught for 32 years and retired this June. So 🙌 Amen 🙏
I’ve asked 5 teachers recently that all are 25+ years in with only a handful more years to go until retirement: “If you could go back and start over from the beginning, would you do it again?” Every single one of them said no, without hesitation
Why are teachers in an existential paradox which embraces the tragic sense of life? Teachers are in Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit which is predicated on an inauthentic bureaucratic system. The new Kafkaeque Teacher is stuck in a world of alienation. The average teacher only lasts 15 years and only 6% make it 30 years for a pension. The problem is that when they leave they lose everything: paycheck, benefits, and shot at a pension. They are missing the point that teachers are put in a failing political system that exploits 77% of the women teachers and men!
it depends on what state they are in. They can collect smaller pensions or take out the money from the pension system. It is state by state. In CA We are vested after 5 years
@fremontpathfinder8463 they have a f ucked up formula for substitute teachers. No summer budget but they tack on extra days into the retirement formula. They also have a different formula for multiple districts. Took me 12 years to get to the 5 years vested. After 22 years, they credited me only 7 years of service credit! BS.
Quiting was the best thing I did in the last decade. Teaching is an abusive relationship
When you have to use credit cards to pay for food. That's when one knows it's time to quit.
I’m there now. Quit and do what???
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Research and do anything else
Right now is the time to quit teaching, that is of course if you f****d yourself up by accepting a teaching post in the first place. Owing to social promotion, lack of manual arts programs for kids with low IQs, and over tolerance of anti-social conduct, your job has been rendered not difficult, but impossible. I quit to ship out with the merchant marine for 8 years then when I got tired of living at work I attended barber college so I could become self-employed. So I was a barber for 20 years until retirement. I wasted 8 years on teaching, an exercise in futility even back then in the 1980s. Honestly if I had to do it all over again I wouldn’t even waste my time going to college. I’d probably just enlist in the navy as a cook in order to qualify as a chief cook after switching to the merchant marine. Most people, no matter how high their IQ might be, are probably better off in the trades, especially if college attendance entails taking out student loans which cannot be shrugged off by filing for bankruptcy like any other type of debt can be. Remember my favorite refrigerator magnet which states: “never give up on your dreams unless your dreams are stupid”.
More to come. No consequences then leave. Public education is doomed if this continues. Bye bye 👋 I taught for 32 years and retired this June. So 🙌 Amen 🙏
Very true
When you are truly suicidal, it is time to quit.
Absolutely.
I’ve asked 5 teachers recently that all are 25+ years in with only a handful more years to go until retirement: “If you could go back and start over from the beginning, would you do it again?”
Every single one of them said no, without hesitation
Unfortunately, I know many veteran teachers who feel the same way.
Why are teachers in an existential paradox which embraces the tragic sense of life? Teachers are in Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit which is predicated on an inauthentic bureaucratic system. The new Kafkaeque Teacher is stuck in a world of alienation. The average teacher only lasts 15 years and only 6% make it 30 years for a pension. The problem is that when they leave they lose everything: paycheck, benefits, and shot at a pension. They are missing the point that teachers are put in a failing political system that exploits 77% of the women teachers and men!
This kinda makes no sense
it depends on what state they are in. They can collect smaller pensions or take out the money from the pension system. It is state by state. In CA We are vested after 5 years
@fremontpathfinder8463 they have a f ucked up formula for substitute teachers. No summer budget but they tack on extra days into the retirement formula. They also have a different formula for multiple districts. Took me 12 years to get to the 5 years vested. After 22 years, they credited me only 7 years of service credit! BS.
I wonder what the entire stats are
Hard to say. However, I feel like we will see even more teachers leave at the end of this school year than last year.