• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I always wanted to be a teacher. I have a passion for teaching people new ways of looking at the world. I manage a team and used to open every Monday call with a chat about science news until the higher-ups started cracking down on “unproductive time.”

    Then I got to know a few teachers, and the way they have to work one or two other jobs on the side so they can afford to bring their kids art supplies and science books and I just don’t have it in me. Massive respect to the men and women who stick with their teaching careers despite not being paid, respected or honored in any way by Western society.

    • voltaa@lemmy.ca
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      24 hours ago

      Massive respect to the men and women who stick with their teaching careers despite not being paid, respected or honored in any way by Western society.

      America isn’t the entirety of western society