Reply #20: Teaching is the only profession where everyone else questions the

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professional. Teachers are taught at college how to teach, however, every teacher entering their first year with high ambitions and clear goals, soon realize that most of what they were taught needs to be tweeked or just plain thrown out.

My sister almost quit her first year. She taught at one of the schools that needed to improve. Half the year she spent shoving test taking material the school made her present to the class. She had a 10yr old threaten to come to school with a knife and stab her until she was dead. The principal didn't do a damn thing, "just make sure those test scores are good". She complained that she was boring the kids to death, but was so afraid of the principal's review of her first year as a teacher, she felt she had no choice but abide by it. She left that school, and never looked back.

It seems like our society is just falling apart. When I went to school, I liked learning. I had good teachers and bad teachers and ok teachers... I also had personal accountability to myself. If I didn't understand or wanted more, I did it. Most of the time I was bored in school. My mother, teacher too, says don't just stop at the curriculum, push until it seems you can't possibly go any further and then tip toe a little further. Her kids come back to her when they get to highschool and say Mrs. ..., I am so bored, we learned this stuff in 6th and 7th grade.