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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI have 4 more years to teach
I can go in 2 if I really need to.
I am and always have been a member of the Union.
I will teach the truth
Atticus
(15,124 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,988 posts)What subject?
I sub since I retired, but I almost exclusively do science & math. Exception is the middle school here in town. It's 4 blocks from our house.
Grades 6-12.
My wife was a SpecEd in-classroom social worker/co-teacher for 30 years.
She left when the back problems got too bad to continue.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)American History.
I took a 2 year detail with PBS-ED ODID -the biters, hitters, the screamers, the throw aways that no one else wants.
I loved it and them but my heart couldn't take it so I went back to just SS my first passion.
rurallib
(62,406 posts)The ignorant loud mouths are driving good teachers out the door these days.
bmbmd
(3,088 posts)My wife retired at the end of this year due to a medical condition. I thank God daily that she's safely completed her duty.
pjpossum
(73 posts)You are making a difference in your students lives even if they don't tell you. I had an incredible US History teacher in high school who made a point about teaching us a lot about the "real" history of the US. Things that are usually not discussed until college. I never once cracked open our assigned text book. I passed the AP exam based just on his in class lectures. He is one of the few teachers that I am thankful that I had.
albacore
(2,398 posts)I left out some important stuff... because it wasn't in the pre-Internet knowledge base... but I always was straight with the kids about our past. I had some parents object, but I had the facts to back my position.
Of course, this was a rich, suburban school with educated parents. I had it easy.
Today.... I have NO idea how I would teach, since facts seem irrelevant to about 30% of the population.
My hat is off to you. We need you in the trenches, but for your own sake, GTFO while you have your sanity.