Teacher Shortages

[Rocket Scientist]

First of all:

THEY DONT PAY ENOUGH.

SECOND OF ALL:

THEY DONT PAY ENOUGH.

I love to get the bag but extra pay isnt even worth it. So much goes into teaching. With that being said I rather teaching then being a bus driver.

 

[Rocket Scientist]

somebody at one of the career fairs brought this up to me it's a program called troops to teachers talking about they need brothers to teach high school....I respect anyone who has the patience to deal with children for the amount of pay they receive but I damn sure wouldn't teach high school. I remember how I was when I was in school and I know I wouldn't deal with it.

So much respect to those who can toe that line...I'd apply for the fire academy at 40 before I became a teacher.

Thats what happened to me. Schools BEG me to teach. I was going into worst areas. Funny thing is I actually connected with those kids . Most of brothas that teach are at middle school,high school level. I kid yall not they DONT want any black men teaching elementary unless they gay . White or black elementary they resent men in those offices.

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Its like nursing. Underpaid, high stress, understaffed, high liability (for different reasons).

Stressed for the new teachers. Older teacher have their pick of well behaved kids. Its usually disciplinary where issues are. You have to be a true leader to deal with these kids. Alot of these old school teachers didnt adapt. Plus most of these principals dont care to discipline some of these kids.

 

[dizzy4111]

Just one more pillar of American society being crushed and snuffed out by the endless greed of the 1%

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Just one more pillar of American society being crushed and snuffed out by the endless greed of the 1%

Crazy when you think about it.

 

[old pig]

Most of brothas that teach are at middle school,high school level.

yeah this is true statistically for men in general…most teach at high school level, followed by middle school, then elementary…I forget the percentages

 

[valet]

From a high school perspective, gotta shorten the school days imo. Do like 8-12pm just core classes.

 

[playplayaj]

As a teacher, I see it first hand. Great job if you love it. Hell if you're in it for the check. And contrary to popular belief, the pay is pretty decent

 

[NatiboyB]

I don't have kids but my friends that do be happy af to send their kids back to school regardless of the conditions. Just another factor in this shyt show we call society

it's a fake happiness....Like the first day of school when they first go you are all sad like aww my baby....When they are a teenager you are like I can't wait until they graduate.

 

[⠝⠕⠏⠑]

Now would be the perfect time for a strike.

 

[Kwéyòl]

The pay is terrible, they are undderapperacited and people genuinely look down to the people teaching their children

 

[Paper Boi]

I taught for 5 years,imagine 30-35 bad ass kids in your class

when I first finished college I had a period where I was struggling to find a good job and my mom kept trying to push me towards substitute teaching and that was my biggest reason why I was like hell nah. i could not handle that shyt.

 

[Chrishaune]

Public schools are done. They are indoctrination camps. If you send your kids to public school don't be surprised when they come out LGBT.

 

[Crude]

As someone in the teaching profession (I’m an administrator), it doesn’t pay enough for the headache that comes with it unless you are admin, a supervisor, or superintendent.

Those aforementioned jobs make up very few of actual available positions. Typically, you also have to work and get experience under your belt and go back to school to be qualified for those positions as well.

More and more standards and criteria to be taught are being mandated on the state and federal level as well, and for schools where students are not performing well the state and feds put the school in corrective action start cutting funds and give kids the option to go to other schools.

Most young adults fresh out of college aren’t trying to deal with that headache for 35-40K a year in most places starting out that aren’t in New York or California.

 

[Originalman]

As a teacher, I see it first hand. Great job if you love it. Hell if you're in it for the check. And contrary to popular belief, the pay is pretty decent

IMO folks miss the boat with teaching...big time. I say this as a man whose father taught for 45 years in the Chicago schools system and who just retired in spring 2020.

I come from a family of teachers on my dads side. Pretty much everyone on my dad's side of the family who has a college degree is either a school teacher, a principle, a sports coach or doctor. That side of the family came out of Mississippi and anyone who knows that area understands the older generations of black folks took up teacher as a way to matriculate to middle class. Cause due to racism that was one of the few educated jobs you could get there cause you were gonna teach your own and because of the state having HBCUs.

The last year my dad worked he had made well into the early 100k salary and had been making 100k for at least 20 years without working the summer. Hell truth be told my dad was working summers at the chicago board of education playground district as a teacher organizing summer camps and making 100k then with his teacher job and summer teacher job.

So when folks mention salary they fail to realize that's the salary over working 10 months or 189 days. Since you get paid for spring break, paid fall break, paid 2 weeks for Christmas break. Plus paid for the local holidays and weather days. So you might work for 10 months but you getting at least 4 weeks in holidays and don't forget you get 2 to 3 weeks of vacation time.

And if you get a job out west or up north or north east with a strong union. You getting a mandatory 3 to 5 percent raise, a good retirement plan and other great benefits.

My dad retired and getting 85k a year in pension now. One more thing being a teacher has some of the best job security there is around. My dad put it to me like this when I was young. Yeah some of my college friends make more. They have bigger salaries and big bonuses. But they also been laid off 2 or 3 times. Took them 6 months to a year to find another job or have to stress about layoffs every few years. Where as my dad never had to worry about layoffs or it being difficult to find a new job or having to relocate to find a new job or getting laid off due to ageism.

The problem is starting around the gen x and millenials generations being a teacher became negative in view. It wasn't looked at as an exciting job or a job to brag about. But forgetting that it was an honest profession with good benefits and job security. The pay wasn't big but nor is the pay big in some of these garbage degrees kats going to school to get in 50k and more of debt with no job in sight.