Most of my family is/was employed in Public Education in California.
Dad, 40 yrs at a state college.
Mom, high school Home Economics cooking-sewing teacher until Dad came home from WW2,surprise!, and they started a family.
Both sisters taught for decades in Elementary Schools.
First, you need a 4 YEAR COLLEGE DEGREE. Wanna go in DEBT!?
Then a year or 2 getting your Master's TEACHING CREDENTIAL. Got 2 More yrs?? More Debt!!
Then, you pick WHICH SCHOOL DISTRICT you want to get Stuck at, as Ca. Teachers can Not freely move within the State, as they should taking their pay seniority with then. Stupid, eh?? Imaging you're a Carpenter or Mechanic or Football Player, but you lose over 10% if you move out of town in first few years. So dumb.
Then you deal with... Bad PRINCIPALS that can't be fired, and all the lousy SUPERINTENTENTS that Mantra chant, "We have to spend all this year's budget somehow, to get as much or more next year!" Dumb, eh??
Uppity clerk's, too few school nurses, no school Security Guard not 1, lousy cafeteria food for breakfast and lunch, ill mannered children abusing hazing bullying each other, and irresponsible parents who don't/can't even make sure Their kids do their homework and blame the Teachers!
And the Teacher's UNIONS are about as daily useless as the Teamsters $50/mo dues!
Still think Teaching is an "easy job"??
You have to submit a written or online published LESSON PLAN every school day for the next day. Do you write down what you are doing tomorrow in detail at your job!? The so-called Principal can drop into class anytime and check on you and your DAILY LESSON PLAN.
You may try and GRADE PAPERS during your lunch, but Dad had us kids help him often after dinner. Wanna grade papers every night for an average salary of less than $80k?? Every Realtor will laugh at your typical teacher desire to buy a house/condo costing a 30yr mortgage, costing you More than Double the house price. Do we need a GI BILL for TEACHER HOUSING??
The Principal can order you to join a COMMITTEE, no extra pay, after school. Teachers should teach, and Admin should earn their "Golden handshakes" and "Golden parachutes"!! Teachers don't get, tho deserve, $100,000+ bonuses. This is wasting public TAXES!!
These so called, easily replaced by almost any college grad, Principals can order you as a Teacher to move without help or even a hand truck all the School's INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS from one class room to another, many heavy boxes, risking popping a disc as happened to a LAUSD friend and being PERMANENTLY DISABLED. This is clearly an ancient history of abuse, so why doesn't Ca. stop it??
And the dreaded ANNUAL PARENT-TEACHER MEETING, we're Teachers politely skirt how lousy parents do a lousy job of parenting and rich parents have unrealistic expectations for all their unknown children. Carpenters, Mechanics and Airline Pilots don't suffer this Admin-shirked dirty job!
POLITICIANS could make this all so much better in California, if we only... gave them All our monthly leftover cash as Campaign Contributions;
(Just kidding.)
Want a truly lazy lying irresponsible but overpaid and get rich quick job? Politics, in California!!
And we didn't even cover the boobs running CalPers PENSION or the lying insurance sharks selling supplement 403b TAX SHELTER to teachers who don't review and or understand every quarterly stock-bond report!
Oh, well, I feel like crying now, instead of TEACHING IN CALIFORNIA AT ANY PUBLIC SCHOOL. You??
