A conversation w/ daryn re: being a teacher

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i like the college idea way better too cause...HIGH SCHOOL IS BORRRRRINGG!!!! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[MEbenhoe]

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i like the professor angle, but that involves getting a phd.. a daunting task

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you can be a professor with just a masters, depending on the college.

[Blarg]

You don't get to pick your schools either, and many teaching systems have you basically with no benefits for a long time and shuffled around to the worst, most dangerous and hopeless schools for a long time, too.

If you could pick your school and stay stuck in it, it would be a lot better than having to work one day or week in one place, one in the next, and spend your first few years in babysitting warehouses where the kids are all hopeless and nobody cares.

Especially here in California, where a major, sometimes pretty much only qualification for being a teacher in the past has been the ability to speak Spanish. You aren't necessarily getting a lot of well trained and hopefully passably smart teachers to mingle with, or cute ones.

[goofball]

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I think you under estimate how much work goes into being a teacher, especially science teacher. plus he cant play poker in the classroom. plus the pay sucks. i think hed be better off just volunteering so he could teach without the commitment and beuracracy(sp).


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this is actually correct. all my friends are boring cause all they do is frickin' grade papers and have to wake up early etc.

best bet is to be something like a college english professor. my college english professor's were remarkable and yet they put little time into the class and obviously college hours are better than HS and MS hours.

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Good idea, get some good TAs to do all the work.

In this case, it would be important for daryn to check out the ethics policies in place to make sure it is a school where it is ok for him to bang students who are not in his class.

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When I was a TA it was "frowned upon" to date students that were in your class but not stricktly forbidden.

[Randy_Refeld]

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i like the professor angle, but that involves getting a phd.. a daunting task

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you can be a professor with just a masters, depending on the college.

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I think these are far and few between. There are quite a few opportunities to be an instructor at a university without a PhD. I know you CAN be a prof without one, but I only remember seeing one while I was in school (60 year old English prof with no PhD).

[Sooga]

In the two high schools I've taught at so far in my brief career, I can count the number of hot teachers on the faculty on 1 finger.

[Evan]

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Unfortunately, he won't be working with hot 20-something chicks, assuming he'd be teaching physics/science.

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My BC Calc teacher in high school was pretty hot. Not science, but close.

[MikeNaked]

I chose this career path.


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diablo: 1) you do something good
[13:24] diablo: 2) you do something fulfilling
[13:24] diablo: 3) you help kids

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All three of these points say the same thing. Regardless, a critical positive for taking on the job. Nothing better than to look around you after a good day or year and say, "Damn, this year I've helped hundreds of kids."

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[13:24] diablo: 4) you work w/ lots of hot 20-something chicks
[13:24] diablo: 5) you get to bang these teachers

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Um, not quite. There's usually a couple of cute ones per building but chances are they're all married. But if you don't mind banging married women...

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[13:24] diablo: 6) you get to bang single moms

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True. This is way more likely than a hot teacher. Lotsa vibes at parent conferences fly. My friend is now dating his former student's Mom. (She has 5 kids though...eww....).

The downside of this is that now you have to deal an awkward situation with the Mom's son or daughter.

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[13:24] diablo: 7) you get summers off to travel

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Absolutely huge. Where else do you get 3 months off? Don't forget winter and spring breaks.

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[13:24] diablo: 8 ) you hvae lots of money from poker
[13:24] diablo: 9) you are the only teacher w/ that kind of money
[13:25] diablo: 10 ) thus coming back to 5 and 6
[13:25] diablo: 11) and making your vacations rule

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Hallelujah!

Two points you missed:
1) The benefits: insurance, retirement, plus, plus...

2) Chicks like teachers.

3) Another poster mentioned that you could work as much as you wanted. Agreed, this is true, especially if you have a slack administration. But, if you have any shred of conscience, you will work your ass off. You will put in 70+ hours a week often during the year. It is a mentally and psychologically-taxing job and expect your poker playing to suffer from September to June.

Overall, I recommend it.

[Malachii]

Being a high school teacher would suck. You have to wake up at an ungodly hour every day, have to deal with bratty kids, and there probably aren't very many hot chicks on the faculty. Being a professor at a college, now that is where it's at...

[Blarg]

That's how I think of it. At high school, the students are there because they have to be, and it often shows. In college, a lot of the kids are excited to be there, and even if they're not, they're trying hard to get good grades. Both beat pre-college schooling, where basically the kids are being warehoused so they don't go around shoplifting all day long.