Comments on: Become A Teacher? 10 Examples That Show Why Becoming A Teacher Is A Dead End In This Economy

By: james

james — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 18:46:00 +0000

This is sick. Shows how much the world values education.

By: Mississippi X-Ray

Mississippi X-Ray — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:24:00 +0000

Much of this is because of attempts to educate blacks. Blacks are poor test-takers, do not concentrate, and disrupt the average classroom when introduced. Add hispanics, who are only concerned with getting pregnant, and what sort of class do you have?

By: Timothy Allen

Timothy Allen — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:43:00 +0000

If you have kids you should take them out of the school system and stop being a drain on the other tax payers. Just saying.

By: karl

karl — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:29:37 +0000

From your writing, I would think you don’t know or ever knew too many teachers.

By: Teachingsucks

Teachingsucks — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:30:30 +0000

Becoming a teacher is absolutely the worse decision I have ever made in my life. Teaching has ruined me and later this year I will be putting my own personal website over the internet to encourage others not to get into this industry. Forget about getting a loan for a house or hacing any financial stability if you do.

By: Teachingsucks

Teachingsucks — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:21:56 +0000

Agreed. And it also occurs over her in Australia. They can’t teach to save themselves and yet they are given all the entitlements they want while new teachers who are desperate to get a foot in the door find themselves stuck trying to get into the system at all. These people usually are more adept and eager to do a good job but because of political BS they often don’t get the chance. I am one of them. After 5 years of trying to get an ongoing position I have opened up a tutoring centre (Kip McGrath Pakenham) instead.

By: Teachingsucks

Teachingsucks — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:18:16 +0000

I couldn’t agree more about the comment you just mentioned: not being able to write a proper sentence. As a maths teacher I have come across so many bad maths teachers that can’t add two numbers properly and can’t show students the correct way to solve problems or work with fractions. And these idiots are the ones that get employed. It is almost as if the education department wants students to fail.

By: Jeff Hart

Jeff Hart — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:11:11 +0000

If you are talking about teachers from countries that barely speak English taking days off I couldn’t agree more. In this country (Australia) we seem to follow a trend of employing teachers that are difficult to understand, can’t teach and yet can take time off whenever they feel like it. However those teachers are rare. Most of the time these days new teachers are put on contracts for 3 months at a time and if they are lucky enough they get another contract. But I can tell you as a teacher that is currently unemployed and has personally written over 200 applications and had 5 interviews in total I have put in more hours since I became a teacher than in any other profession. Anybody that thinks that teachers of today have it is easy is deluding themselves. We don’t. You have more chance of winning the lottery than you do of getting an ongoing teaching position.

By: Jeff Hart

Jeff Hart — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:01:45 +0000

I don’t know much about the American education system but I suspect that it is subject to the same political nightmare that the Australian one is. Having been subjected to it for over 5 years now I can safely tell you that it is not the teachers that are the problem it is the morons above them (namely the education department)that need to be looked at. Teachers have very little control over what happens in the classroom and students have more rights than they do.

By: Don

Don — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:17:03 +0000

This is simple. Establish a flat tax. Do away with deductions, depreciation, “long term debt amortization”, and all of the other tax loopholes. If you earn money in this country, you pay tax on it no matter where you live or what other taxes you might pay on it.

Also, do away with Earned Income Credit. Giving money to folks with kids they cannot support is a guaranteed way to end with a lot of kids the rest of us have to support.