i hate my cushy bullshit job where i make obscene amounts of money. should i quit my job and become a teacher? here’s what i’m thinking so far:
pros:
- i won’t hate my job anymore
- my job is a real job where i actually contribute to society
- summer vacation sounds dope
cons:
- maybe i still hate my job
- my job would be a real job where i do work
- i won’t make obscene amounts of money
- wtf grad school is expensive
alternatively, are there other jobs i should try to do instead? mind you i have no skills and would probably need to go back to school.
idk about @hamid but my proposed alternative is public schools that don’t teach propaganda to kids, or at least teach propaganda that has people make good opinions
I’d love that, too. But until then teaching kids nothing is going to make them even more endangered within the prevalent system that they’re going to be forced into as imminent adults.
As some have already said, it’s less easy to propagandize some essential classes such as math, and throwing out the whole thing for performative “propaganda free” purity reasons isn’t doing the students any favors.
??? are you trying to argue they should become a teacher or trying to argue for if public schools are a good idea? i think they shouldn’t be a teacher and that public schools are a good idea, personally. and i personally think the current existence of school teachers is generally a good thing. but a comrade purposely putting themselves into the shitty situation that is the current job of teaching (the sheer difficulty of which also leads to my respect to current teachers) is not something i agree with. the fact that a significant portion of the job is teaching propaganda and / or abusing neurodivergent kids if you’re assigned to a cringe instead of a based teaching position means that i wouldn’t really think of it as much better than just sending a couple hundred bucks to a local pride org or something with a cushy job
the history aspect of public schools is currently undeniably basically just propaganda. this does not make other classes irrelevant or unimportant or bad! but there is also a lot of bad stuff in education in general right now (ESPECIALLY PRIVATE) that makes me hesitate to consider it an objective good to go into it compared to being an affluent comrade. full uncritical support to teachers trying to incorporate actually good and developed teaching theory in our hell world though
also i never advocated for teaching kids nothing? what the fuck do you think we’re talking about???
No. I already said they shouldn’t.
That does happen and it is terrible and it has contributed significantly to my own decision to leave the profession. Again, once again, my point is that doesn’t mean that teaching itself or the public school system should as a whole be abandoned or abolished. It is in dire need of improvement and restoration, even if that currently seems out of reach.
Saying “it’s all propaganda” sounded to me like a defeatist condemnation of public schools in general.
ok i think we just agree altogether but read it differently. i just read it as complaining about a part of the job but i can understand why you’d read it that way. sorry for being confrontational
Yeah, I think it’s a difference of interpretation.
It’s all good, comrade.