Education / Teaching thread

I knew i shouldnt have opened this thread

ugh.

My oldest girl graduates in a year from SELU with education degree. I really dont think she understands the stresses and how its NOT commensurate with pay. I hope she finds her dream place, and she will continue 1 yr for Masters, but i hope she lands somewhere that doesnt break her spirit in the first 5 years.
Programs like "Teach America" where new teachers are paid extra to move to under-served areas to teach seem like a great idea to help new Teachers pay off some debt, but you go where needed to schools that definitely need something. Before your daughter signs up for a program like this, I urge her to talk to others who have done the program to see if the effect on their own psyche was worth the extra money.

I have a cousin who was sent to Memphis where she was introduced to all manner of impoverished students and their respective problems. Her first year was during Covid and she had a window into each of the kids home-life via Web-Cam and it changed her. Twice she had to shut down the entire class, once because of extreme violence and the other because of sexual assault. Both times police were dispatched to the residence and both times people went to jail. My cousin is back living in South Louisiana and now teaching in Carencro I think.