Why Go Into Teaching? No Longer A Profession. Just Another Temp Job With No Security. [View all]

[TheMastersNemesis]

Teaching as a profession should be boycotted because it is no longer a profession. Teachers are political footballs who are abused at every turn. Even though they make little money they are told they make too much. And now that a California judge just threw out tenure as unconstitutional any semblance of job security is gone.

You will last as long as your last rating period and the results of your student's test scores. Under privatization teacher will have no rights and little job security. And unless you are politically correct and pure in your private life you will be in constant jeopardy.

We forget what tenure has been all about. Tenure has been about protecting teachers from politics. Under tenure teachers could not be threatened for the wrong politics. It protected progressive teachers as well as conservative teachers. The "job of life" meme has been just plain bullshit.

The same politicians who whine over lifetime jobs actually have life time jobs themselves. How many members of Congress have been on the same job for decades with little fear? And those politicians who complain the most are in the safest districts. Accountability is ONLY for the little guy or the defenseless worker.

So my advice to the young is to stay away from teaching because it will soon be only a temporary job. And you can bet you will be blamed for all the failures of society. And besides that anymore you need a flak jacket or bullet proof vest to protect yourself.