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Demeter

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5. There is no good reason to work as a teacher for a govt. agency
Sat Aug 29, 2015, 11:01 AM
Aug 2015

Neither the pay nor the working conditions are bearable, and there is no social status.

Teaching has been reduced to the level of babysitting and the unions are paper tigers at best.

When (if) society's attitudes change (and I don't see that happening in my lifetime, what remains of it), teaching may again become a profession worthy of the name. but the teaching "industry" has been going downhill since the 60's, when I got on board in kindergarten, and it's been a steady, accelerating decline.

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