The Wonderful World of Teaching

Education is the most important issue in America (in my opinion), and yet they are the ones with the most job cuts and lay offs. How do we expect to educate our children with an unstable environment?

Teaching is not an easy job. A successful teacher must possess a number of characteristics and still maintain their livelihood outside of school. Now we all know that life in general outside of work can be stressful but just imagine how one must feel with 27 little lives in their hands. That is something that a teacher must go through five days a week. I commend everyone that dreams and aspires to be teachers because it is not an easy job.

A good teacher must be a good listener, a great motivator and knows how to be fair. Those three characteristics alone are difficult to do if someone does not have their personal lives together. Being a student myself and valuing education, I am sometimes concerned at the treatment that teachers get. The treatment from the students, parents, administrators, even sometimes the government. I don't think that people actually sit and realize how stressful a job like that can be. And yet there are still those fussy parents at parent-teacher conference that starts yelling at the teacher when something goes wrong.

I try and feel for teachers that go to work everyday and say to themselves that "this is my passion and I will not give up". Added stress will make a person think twice about what they chose as their passion.

I personally think that teachers are not paid enough. Ever wonder how much teachers are paid? "Compared with public school teachers, airplane pilots earn 186% more; physicians, 80% more; lawyers, 49% more; nuclear engineers, 17% more; actuaries, 9% more; and physicists, 3% more." School teachers are just as important as the next occupation. Lets try to level the playing field shall we??

When will someone involved in funding for education in America stop and think about the teachers, that is the foundation of our school systems, before making a decision. Until that happens, school teachers will continue to be underrated.

Until Next Time...
Lauren!