Kill Me Now- I Think I Want to Be A High School Teacher

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I'm really starting to think that I want to teach high school.</p>

<p>I keep getting that naive thought that I can help the students... You know, actually make a difference. I've thought that was BS for years, and now I think I actually want to teach.</p>

<p>I think I want to major in English and get a teaching certificate, come back to my high school and teach there. I hate my school. Yet again, another of the naive teacher dreams, that I can change what I think is wrong, and maybe gain a greater understanding of the teachers I've been dealing with for the past years. </p>

<p>AH! Crush my hopes. Tell me how crappy the pay is, and how annoying students, like me, can be. Crush my hopes to the ground.</p>

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<p>Why high school? Why not a college professor.</p>

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<p>You’ll work your a** off putting up with stupid kids while trying to help them, and they’ll STILL hate you 90% of the time.</p>

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<p>Maybe my views will change on the college professor one when I hit college, but I’d rather be able to help students get there. There is a lot of BS where I am, and I think it needs to be changed. If I could somehow impact it in the slightest way I would have achieved something here. </p>

<p>And goldenratiophi- exactly, I agree 100%.</p>

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<p>My teacher pretty much told us it was a really bad profession to go into. Not because of the students or the teaching, that’s the good part. Apparently you have to deal with a lot of frustrating people higher up and take crap from parents/administrators etc…</p>

<p>Only being a senior in high school I can’t give any advice but if it ultimately makes you happy and you’re willing to deal with the bad sides of teaching it could be very worthwhile job for you. Nothing wrong with considering teaching, and you have a few years in college to think about it. If anything we could use more passionate caring teachers, I happen to know a few who really did make a difference in the last few years for me.</p>

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<p>If you really want to make an impact I think you should aim for a position a little higher up than simply teacher…at least principal or superintendent. Unless it’s the teaching part that you find appealing. There’s only so much one teacher can do, unless you want to do a “Freedom Writers” style change. (That movie might interest you, it’s about this teacher who goes into the ghetto and changes these “hopeless” kids.)</p>

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<p>I told my aunt, who taught in a really bad school district (kid was decapitated, and another died of fatal wound stabbings, both inflicted by students), she turned to me and said, “I’m going to tell you the same thing my biology teacher told me, you’re too smart to be a teacher.”</p>

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<p>Teach private school. The best places are all-boys ( or all-girls) independant prep schools . The kids are smart and listen to you ;also, since it’s independant there are not many state issued curriculums which means you can teach whatever you want.</p>

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<p>Okay, now I feel kinda bad, but I haven’t laughed harder at anything in days!!</p>

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<p>Ok, didn’t noticed I did that, now I can’t stop laughing. That’s my best typo ever.</p>

<p>I changed it. :D</p>

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<p>isn’t this like one of those relationships with the girlfriend wanting to change the alcoholic/druggie/violent boyfriend for the better?</p>

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<p>Yes, and I hate myself because of it. </p>

<p>I’m the moronic girlfriend… </p>

<p>Uhg.</p>

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<p>I think you’d be better off becoming a college professor, IMO.</p>

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<p>I want to teach English, too, but I find the ever-important curriculum to be a load of crap. Therefore, I would never teach public school unless I really felt an inspiration.</p>

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<p>IMO a lot of kids want to be teachers becuase they are subconsciously imitating adults they admire.</p>

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<p>English teachers don’t change the world - or their students.</p>

<p>Unless they teach grammar (as if any of them ever do).</p>

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<p>^ And why don’t they?</p>

<p>Although, gotta agree with the grammar part.</p>

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<p>The reality of being a high school teacher:</p>

<p>If you’re ugly, the students make jokes about you. If you’re decent looking, the students discuss perhaps worse things.</p>

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<p>Ha, true. Unless you teach classes with students that are actually interested? :P</p>

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<p>I think I might rather want to be a college English professor, but don’t feel bad, I randomly decided this year I’d like to teach too. :)</p>