Because before the reason why I was able to teach Esy is because I have an undergrad degree in special education. And when I was teaching it, for the first six years of my teaching career, I had to lug a stack of IEPs and reevaluations with me every day because I was working on them and I was bringing them back to make sure they were done correctly, get the parents assigned
But for the most part they get thrown into walking the stage and receiving a diploma with no real real life teaching experience. I mean, how many schools even teach home economics anymore? Or how to do your taxes or balance a checkbook or write a check or managing your money? It just seems like a lot of the really valuable lessons aren't being taught at the most opportunistic time to teach it. So who knows what the solution is?
Kwa NateKo
@kwa · 4:04
It's just too much to do to really serve a class of 20 to 30 kids expect to have a good outcome. And the answer from all sides seems to be the teachers need to do more or something different when there really isn't capacity to do so. It's just not a fair solution. But that seems to be the solution from all sides or a lot of different people
Kwa NateKo
@kwa · 1:25
And because of staffing shortages, you have to spend a lot of covering and dealing with outside parties like parents or talking to the state for kids who have IEPs and that sort of thing. Yeah
Some students did not have chairs to sit in. And, I mean, what can even be said about that? It's pretty ridiculous. Not to mention the time and energy that teachers put in. I was somebody that was always available to my students. I would come home, grade papers, do my Master's program in the evening. I was always on
It. Ultimately, I quit the profession because I felt like it was seriously affecting my health, my mental health, my physical health. I was making myself sick. When you go into teaching, you go into teaching because you care. You don't go into it because you're going to make a million dollars or anything even resembling it
And I believe that in order to teach critical thinking, that you have to use it yourself. And I think everybody's suffering behind these new standards, considering they're saying that the education, public education, started with Rockefeller, and today would be 13 $3 trillion he shoveled into it. See you on the other side. Hold on
And whether it's via homeschooling or charter schooling or whatever anybody else comes up with that, public school teachers are like heroes to us. So I'm just saying. Not to mention one of the strongest unions. Well, the strongest union in the country. That's just coming from a union. Taylor just admiring that. The strongest union in the country. So thank you again for what you've done. I appreciate you 100%. Bye
Tasha Russell
@tashr03 · 5:00
You. So I want to first say thank you for everybody's responses, and I apologize for responding so late on to the last person's. Swell. I'm sending my reply for everyone, and I hope that's okay. But I wanted to address homeschooling from the first gentleman that mentioned it. I am a public school teacher that advocates homeschooling, because this I was once a public school student. I taught in the public schools. I have a very good friend that homeschooled her children
We work our buns off and get paid very little, if anything. So there's a lot that needs to be done on many levels from, like I stated, what happened to me in terms of salary gosh, I don't really know what else to say. There is a shortage and again, I think somehow making it easier for someone to get their teaching credential. But don't make it too easy where just anyone can teach a child. I mean, there's definitely that fine line
Tasha Russell
@tashr03 · 1:46
It was not hard, it was just a little expensive. So you do make appointment. I think that has a lot to do with the teacher shortage as well. And I feel like someone, the government somehow should be assisting teachers or regulate how the testing is done so that there's a portion of it that's paid for maybe by the college or something after you student taught. It should not be that expensive