yea pay is below average ..could be WAY better, but I don’t do it for the money. I don’t have any kids, so my money goes further.
As for the job itself, I feel like I haven’t been to “work” in 5 years cause I love being around the kids.
I’ve did pre-K (which was the most fun I’ve ever had), 4th and 5th grade. They’re moving me to middle school this year, so it’ll be a new adventure, but I’ve been with the same group of kids for the past 2 years.
They keep me young. They put me on all the new rappers and dances. You make connections to kids and help me out with issues they’re having outside of the school.
I had one 5th grade girl come to me and tell me “I think I like girls”..of course I told the parent, but for her to come to me and tell me that and ask for help showed me I earned her trust and they feel as if they can come to me for everything.
You have to have a passion for this tho. Ain’t no reason to wake up at 6:30 every morning if you don’t like kids and hate going into the building.
lot of perks being a young, handsome male teacher with locs in a building full of females too