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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 74193" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>I just came upon this thread and it is fascinating. When I was in college, 30 years ago, my parents BEGGED me to become a teacher, it was steady, I would be in a union, I could retire at age 50, etc. Teaching did not appeal to me, especially since NYC (where I lived) had just gotten done firing 20,000 teachers. I became a lawyer instead.</p><p></p><p>Forward 25 plus years. My 11th grade daughter wants to teach, elementary ed, possibly reading (one of my sons is dyslexic) and possibly Sped. She is wonderful with kids and although her math skills <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2012/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> (due to lead poisoning), she is good enough to teach little kids.</p><p></p><p>I am encouraging her. My SD starts teachers with just BA's at almost $50K! It took me years of lawyering to make that much. Once she gets tenure after 3 years, the only way they can fire her is if she molests the students or steals money from the SD (the tenured teacher who assaulted my difficult child in grade 6 is still teaching). My SD is known for hiring its own grads to teach here. I on the other hand was recently downsized after 20 plus years at the same company.</p><p></p><p>All of my female lawyer friends agree with me - if we had it to do over, we'd become teachers and then go to law school at night or after we retired from teaching. As a teacher, you get your summers off and many of my teacher friends work at the very expensive day camps so their kids go for free or they tutor and make a ton of money off the books. The only downside I can see is that my teacher friends can rarely make it to one of their own kids' school activities (although for teachers who live in the district, accomodations are often made here).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 74193, member: 3493"] I just came upon this thread and it is fascinating. When I was in college, 30 years ago, my parents BEGGED me to become a teacher, it was steady, I would be in a union, I could retire at age 50, etc. Teaching did not appeal to me, especially since NYC (where I lived) had just gotten done firing 20,000 teachers. I became a lawyer instead. Forward 25 plus years. My 11th grade daughter wants to teach, elementary ed, possibly reading (one of my sons is dyslexic) and possibly Sped. She is wonderful with kids and although her math skills :censored: (due to lead poisoning), she is good enough to teach little kids. I am encouraging her. My SD starts teachers with just BA's at almost $50K! It took me years of lawyering to make that much. Once she gets tenure after 3 years, the only way they can fire her is if she molests the students or steals money from the SD (the tenured teacher who assaulted my difficult child in grade 6 is still teaching). My SD is known for hiring its own grads to teach here. I on the other hand was recently downsized after 20 plus years at the same company. All of my female lawyer friends agree with me - if we had it to do over, we'd become teachers and then go to law school at night or after we retired from teaching. As a teacher, you get your summers off and many of my teacher friends work at the very expensive day camps so their kids go for free or they tutor and make a ton of money off the books. The only downside I can see is that my teacher friends can rarely make it to one of their own kids' school activities (although for teachers who live in the district, accomodations are often made here). [/QUOTE]
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