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mantis49

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8. Teaching isn't the only profession that will eat you alive........

Sun Sep 16, 2012, 12:10 PM

Sep 2012

Try nursing.

I'm a nurse who is married to a (former) teacher. He got laid off last spring and is now working as a transit system bus driver. Part of me is jealous. I keep thinking I should quit and take a job as a cashier in a grocery or convenience store/ gas station.

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Teaching ate me alive [View all] XemaSab Sep 2012 OP

LAUSD..... NYC_SKP Sep 2012 #1

He's right about Prop 13. We left CA in 1988 because there was no way mnhtnbb Sep 2012 #2

I have a wonderful nephew. Great kid but I couldn't see him as a teacher. But you couldn't southernyankeebelle Sep 2012 #3

I don't think most people realize what we deal with on a regular basis. knitter4democracy Sep 2012 #4

No, they don't. My second year I was stabbed with a pencil and bit the first month DonRedwood Sep 2012 #35

They say those are always the roughtest sammytko Sep 2012 #39

I've always said metal detectors are stupid when they have pencils. knitter4democracy Sep 2012 #41

k & r The Midway Rebel Sep 2012 #5

It ate my husband up too, which is a shame because he was so good at it. GreenPartyVoter Sep 2012 #6

If the system is so awful, why must it be preserved as-is at all cost? nt Romulox Sep 2012 #7

Because the "reformers" wish to make it worse? Fumesucker Sep 2012 #32

No teacher has EVER said that--we've been begging for supplies, heat, time, books DonRedwood Sep 2012 #37

Teaching isn't the only profession that will eat you alive........ mantis49 Sep 2012 #8

The altruistic professions are all getting squeezed. hunter Sep 2012 #12

yep the sociopaths drag everything down they make any undergroundpanther Sep 2012 #20

ain't it the truth. HiPointDem Sep 2012 #21

Amen. nt Care Acutely Sep 2012 #25

I know nurses. Similar pressure for fewer experienced nurses, increasing patient patrice Sep 2012 #30

I can't imagine. MissB Sep 2012 #9

Sounds like he wasn't cut out for it... ellisonz Sep 2012 #10

I couldn't do it. I tried teaching in the city. hunter Sep 2012 #11

This is my 33rd year in an urban system. proud2BlibKansan Sep 2012 #13

If I recall correctly, proud2BlibKansan, you teach in the KC MO district? KansDem Sep 2012 #15

Yes that money is being funneled to schools BUT proud2BlibKansan Sep 2012 #16

A poverty factor: The casinos are also responsible for a significant amount of bankruptcy and patrice Sep 2012 #29

I taught adjunct for a couple of years at a small college in south KC. KansDem Sep 2012 #34

Mike made an extremely good living out of that situation, but I am proud to say he also patrice Sep 2012 #38

+1 XemaSab Sep 2012 #14

Nope. Sorry. Jay L. Johnson needs his $16 million salary. A HERETIC I AM Sep 2012 #18

"The money people created this problem. It's stupid to pay any attention at all to their proposed HiPointDem Sep 2012 #22

Powerful and awful, but the best part is the end: nolabear Sep 2012 #17

"Improve our failing schools" was the mantra for the last 10+ years. Now, they're being lindysalsagal Sep 2012 #19

loved the article SmileyRose Sep 2012 #23

I once deposed a teacher who had filed for workers comp in California aint_no_life_nowhere Sep 2012 #24

I can believe it XemaSab Sep 2012 #26

It's a shame something can't be done about the parents aint_no_life_nowhere Sep 2012 #27

At the alternative high school where I taught, that would never have been allowed. knitter4democracy Sep 2012 #42

a good read. authentic. patrice Sep 2012 #28

20 students per class max should bethe law ErikJ Sep 2012 #31

What grade level was that? oberliner Sep 2012 #36

High school biology 10th grade ErikJ Sep 2012 #40

It finally wore me out. Are_grits_groceries Sep 2012 #33