[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Teachers on this list.

[Melanie Brackney]

I was only a teacher for two years (plus several months "teaching" 
in day care and years and years of related quasi-professional work 
with children), so I can't speak to the burnout issue, but I loved it. 
It was a lot of work; people do say it gets a bit easier after the 
first few years, because you've worked out some lesson plans and such. 
I taught in private schools (I didn't have certification; I was just 
mulling over the possibility of making teaching my career), which 
generally pay worse but have fewer discipline issues.  

It was frustrating and rewarding.  I don't think I ever would have 
stopped feeling like I was making a difference, although there were 
kids I didn't know how to reach and that always made me sad.  What I 
loved best was the personal connection to the kids, particularly those 
few in each class who particularly tugged at my heart.  I do a lot of 
teaching of both kids and adults in the work I do now (I'm a 
minister), and it's one of my favorite aspects of my wonderful job. 

Amy Z

I always hoped that i could teach at a private school, I still hope.  I never set foot inside a public school until  I was 18 and went to a state university.  I was educated at Catholic schools, and I really wish with all of my heart that I could go back and teach at one but I highly doubt that will happen.  Truth be told, Catholic elementary school teachers are practically living below the poverty line if they are still at home that is.  I do love kids a lot, I just hope I can teach them LOL.  

Melanie

P.S.  Although I can see the benefits of a public school, for one thing, I know at the Catholic elementary school in my neighborhood they do not read Harry Potter.  Because it teaches the wrong kind of magic....very sad.  I do sincerely hope that the children read the books on their own however.



---------------------------------
Do You Yahoo!?
Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year!
http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]