Back then, and today too ! Teaching is vital, no matter what AI CEOs and evangelists tell us today about the future not requiring our children to learn essential skills like reading or counting…)
More today, it's so much worse and harder to be a teacher today than most points in recent history. Kids have the attention span of a fruit fly, wages went stagnant, many parents are crazy, everything you do is scrutinized (omg do you have a rainbow sticker that says love everyone on your water bottle!FIRED!), and education has been absolutely gutted over two Trump terms.
I don't know how you teachers do it, I tried to sub during covid to help the local school district and after few weeks just couldn't handle it ... and I deployed to war four times in the military lol... I'd rather do that than teach middle schoolers... Teachers are fucking miracle workers with the patience of a saint.
do you have a rainbow sticker that says love everyone on your water bottle!FIRED!
Teaching kids is hard enough without batshit crazy politically brainwashed parents... I've heard stories of parents furious at teachers about whatever FauxNews told them is a symbol of "woKe IdEoLogy" - you know, completely bland stuff like a sign that says "respect everyone" stuff like that. It really is a toxic, fascist culture the one they've created.
There’s an ultra-MAGA aide at my kids’ elementary school. I’m the board of our PTA, so I’m there often and always try to bite my tongue when she’s doing dumb shit. She was wearing a Punisher hoodie today while helping me with something, so I took my hoodie off and stood right next to her in my Resist✊ shirt for the rest of the time. She looked so pissed and it was amazing.
At least once a week I'll have a moment I ask myself why I still do this, but then I see one of my preschoolers hugging another because he saw her crying, and I remember why I'm still here. Obviously I'd love to be paid more or have better programs, but I'd never quit what I do
Other than the social bonding thing, kids develop and expand speech quicker when you talk and read to them because you are literally modeling how to say words and sounds and stuff. It’s one of the reasons why even if we’re playing songs in a classroom we the teachers are expected to sing the songs along with the videos in classes dealing with Early Childhood Special Education.
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u/john_san 7h ago
Back then, and today too ! Teaching is vital, no matter what AI CEOs and evangelists tell us today about the future not requiring our children to learn essential skills like reading or counting…)