If you were a middle school or high school teacher...

[Wreckem]

If I worked at a school, I'd kill myself.

In NC. The teachers are paid shit. I think we're just as bad as Mississippi and West Virginia in pay.

Plenty of schools in other states pay well(CA, NY, even Texas where numerous school districts start teachers out at $50k for just a BA and 0 years of teaching experience).

 

[DrPizza]

Well those questions really only apply to high school and middle school. I can't see their application to elementary school academics.

Thanks for the good answers🙂

I think those questions SHOULD only apply to middle and high school. Unfortunately, it seems that more and more elementary schools are pushing homework on the kids, if for no other purpose than to get them used to doing homework for when they're in middle school.

 

[Anarchist420]

I think those questions SHOULD only apply to middle and high school.

Well they didn't apply when I was a kid.🙂

Some people have suggested that I teach history at a small private high school, but I don't really want to enforce a bunch of a rules and I'd feel bad being in charge. I also think the value of a formal education is going out the window and rightfully so when the internet exists and the public schools are mostly not very good (some are excellent, but the vast majority in Virginia are not).

I just don't believe that school should be mandatory. Children working (or just not going to school) shouldn't be so considered unacceptable and should certainly not be regulated in anyway by the govt... who knows where I'd be if I had worked in middle school. I could've worked in High School, but I chose not to and that choice is coming back to haunt me.

Personally, I think early on most kids should be evaluated, with their input being heavily weighted, whether they should be in school, whether they should learn a trade.

 

[EagleKeeper]

I think those questions SHOULD only apply to middle and high school. Unfortunately, it seems that more and more elementary schools are pushing homework on the kids, if for no other purpose than to get them used to doing homework for when they're in middle school.

Granddaughter gets them for two purposes. (3rd grade)

1) Refresh what was taught in classes
2) Encourage her to look outside the box

 

[alkemyst]

Well they didn't apply when I was a kid.🙂

Some people have suggested that I teach history at a small private high school, but I don't really want to enforce a bunch of a rules and I'd feel bad being in charge. I also think the value of a formal education is going out the window and rightfully so when the internet exists and the public schools are mostly not very good (some are excellent, but the vast majority in Virginia are not).

I just don't believe that school should be mandatory. Children working (or just not going to school) shouldn't be so considered unacceptable and should certainly not be regulated in anyway by the govt... who knows where I'd be if I had worked in middle school. I could've worked in High School, but I chose not to and that choice is coming back to haunt me.

Personally, I think early on most kids should be evaluated, with their input being heavily weighted, whether they should be in school, whether they should learn a trade.

This was already studied and why we have public schools.

If you think a having a high school job would have drastically changed your future you have failed in situating yourself already in life.

 

[HeXen]

I just don't believe that school should be mandatory. Children working (or just not going to school) shouldn't be so considered unacceptable and should certainly not be regulated in anyway by the govt... who knows where I'd be if I had worked in middle school. I could've worked in High School, but I chose not to and that choice is coming back to haunt me.

Personally, I think early on most kids should be evaluated, with their input being heavily weighted, whether they should be in school, whether they should learn a trade.

 

[Anarchist420]

If you think a having a high school job would have drastically changed your future you have failed in situating yourself already in life.

That's what I was saying.

 

[alkemyst]

That's what I was saying.

who knows where I'd be if I had worked in middle school. I could've worked in High School, but I chose not to and that choice is coming back to haunt me.

doesn't appear you did

 

[shortylickens]

That's what I was saying.

I hate agreeing with Alky but he's right.

High school is actually one of the easier parts of your life. If you cant succeed there then the real work force is gonna eat you alive.

I am never impressed with drop outs. They think they are too cool for the system and can do better on their own. Anyone who thinks like that clearly has no idea how life works and really needs to spend a little more time in school before they join the world.

 

[pete6032]

Some of you guys are no holds bar brutal. Tests are not always an accurate measure of intelligence or hard work, some people have test anxiety and do much better on an oral exam or written paper. Having a midget plus final and no homework or written assignments is just unfairly setting some kids up for failure.