How hard is it to be a teacher?

The teachers who say it is hard are lying. They know that if anyone found out how little they do for the $$ they receive the job market would be even more flooded. I am 20 years in, make $87k for 185 days of work a year. I also receive $6k for XC coach for 60 days. 185 days a year, all holidays off, every weekend off, I have student contact 6 periods a day.

imateacher wrote:

The teachers who say it is hard are lying. They know that if anyone found out how little they do for the $$ they receive the job market would be even more flooded. I am 20 years in, make $87k for 185 days of work a year. I also receive $6k for XC coach for 60 days. 185 days a year, all holidays off, every weekend off, I have student contact 6 periods a day.

And that's pretty good.

And when you're done you can retire with a pension. That's awesome and is totally why I should have gone into teaching instead of corporate.

imateacher wrote:

The teachers who say it is hard are lying. They know that if anyone found out how little they do for the $$ they receive the job market would be even more flooded. I am 20 years in, make $87k for 185 days of work a year. I also receive $6k for XC coach for 60 days. 185 days a year, all holidays off, every weekend off, I have student contact 6 periods a day.

You coach and have every weekend Off? Only 60 days of coaching? As others stated you can teach, coach and coast and be mediocre like the above poster.

If you know your subject area well, are confident and comfortable with kids and their parents, have good enough leadership skills to command a classroom of twenty to thirty students, and don’t mind planning and marking after hours, it’s not that hard and is a great career.

For many years I taught high school English and coached track and cross country. Now that I have retired from coaching, I have a relaxed and enjoyable quality of life that I’d forgotten was possible during my coaching career, even though I still teach the same schedule.

Teachers should b*tch less and be thankful more, but that goes for most people.

Three thoughts:

Teaching is a woman’s job. That’s why it pays less.

Summers are necessary. But if you work 2/3 of the year you get 2/3 the pay. Stop complaining.

If your wife has night meetings and is at school 5:30-5:30 then grading papers all night and weekend I’d be suspicious. And pics?

I am married to a teacher...a pretty good one.

Here's the thing, I can't stand it when teachers complain about long hours when other professions put in just as long (or longer) hours. If you want to move up in your chosen profession, long hours usually enter into the mix at some point. Also, summers and the Holidays off? Seriously? Who wouldn't want that? And a spring break?

To get ahead as a teacher, you move up via the seniority and education levels ONLY (of course, there are some outlier conditions). Not job performance; your union would have you think they "protect" all teachers (even the mediocre or bad ones) by creating animosity between teachers, the administration, and the public.

If someone is mediocre in the business world, they usually don't move up much, or get shown the door (depending on the industry). Performance is usually key (of course, politics and economy come into play here).

Teachers with more than 10 years in also are pretty much in a recession proof job, as they won't be let go - it'll be the ones with less experience (but more enthusiasm and better performance) that get the axe.

Finally - when a person decides to enter whatever profession they decide, don't you actually take a look at the conditions? The pay? The typical work environment? The hours? Whether or not you want to do that kind of work for the rest of your working life? You knew what you were getting into as a teacher...and you took the job anyways.

Given the archaic way that the schools and unions are run, don't be surprised when change doesn't happen in this arena.

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wolly wrote:

I've never been a teacher and I only heard from my teachers that the life of a teacher is not an easy one.You will have to deal everyday with kids who have no attention for the class,kids who disturb your class by making noise or by destroying things.Is that part true?I only heard some rumors so I don't know if this is the reality or it's just a dream.

Work in student management....a tough gig even here in Australia. Wouldn't do anything else and it allows me to coach on the side

i am 13 years in and make 55k per year. And i make 3600 for 72 days of coaching cross country. It's not that great. it's certainly not horrible either.

Teaching is easy; all the rest is crap.

Class size less than 25! Magic.

Retired teacher.

For me it wasn't kids that were the thing that made the job gruelling much of the time. They were challenging, of course, and sometimes tested ones geniality and resourcefulness. It was the numbers of kids per class and classes per day.

But what made the job hard for me was the bureaucracy, the administration, and all the b.s. they dump on teachers. Meetings, paperwork, testing, "professional development ." long story.

College doesn't prepare you for the actual job.

Parents are like the Marine Corp: your greatest friend or worst enemy. Even longer story. Suffice it that parents who do not participate in their child's education have tons of rationalist for that. And the ones that do work with the schools are like a gift from heaven--for you and their children--sometimes they can work against you. (Details on request.)

Well, one last little thing: if even one-third of all parents (esp. of Special Needs students) were to be involved and demanding all their legal rights, the system would collapse. (Talk about a long story!)

Teaching being a hard job greatly depends upon subject area and grade level. I teach upper level science classes which do have difficult curriculum. I am lucky enough to not have to manage behavior problems in my classes. I have 1 planning period a day for grading and lesson planning and 3 block classes I teach everyday besides that. I have been teaching going on 10 years and I make 65k with my teaching contact of 185 days and coaching cross country and track for about 5k a piece. My typical day I leave home around 6:30am and get home around 5:30pm after cross country and track practice.

I would not call my job hard but can see where others would find it as such. I love my job, I have great students and get to coach which is a true passion of mine. The key to how hard or easy your job really comes down to how much you enjoy what you are doing.

Many teachers do coast and teach the same thing every year and keep their jobs. However those are not the teachers that actually impact students in a positive way.

If you have passion for teaching go for it. If you do not enjoy it and don't like dealing with kids, parents, or state regulations then don't teach.

The only thing that truly bothers be today is all the negative opinions that are directed towards teachers from adults. You made it through the education system why do you need to cut down a profession that helped you sometime in someway.

you should have been more original and started a thread about whether you should get a tattoo or not.

It can also be a pleasure...

Teaching should be a volunteer job

teaching is great wrote:

Teaching is the best scam going. You work half the day.

Not sure what you do... but I can guarantee you teachers don't work only "half a day"

It is not difficult if you genuinely enjoy it. However, it is sometimes challenging, and COVID proved it. Little do you know what it's like to be a teacher during a pandemic. First of all, giving classes in an empty classroom does feel sad. Second, it was so hard seeing my students losing their family members. There was a lot of trauma. Third, teaching virtually was a lot more work than actually teaching in class. Luckily, I found these fantastic online teaching tools for teachers https://topteachingtasks.com/online-teaching-resources-shop/ that I've been using since then. Overall, it is great to be a teacher, but you will eventually face some challenges as with any job.

Teachers are not needed. The Boards of Education had a chance when the cowards cried about returning to class last year to get rid of the unions, tenure, etc and blew it big time. They are probably already regretting that decision.

One teacher can remotely teach thousands of kids. Hire monitors for order and use robotic grading. Like college……

Kids figure stuff out the way everyone else does (including teachers)….. Google.

Teachers are the real heroes:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4U3fF0Kc738