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anyone here teach? (my masters is useless)
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So I'll have my MA from U of Chicago at the end of this year, and I need to make some plans for my "gap year."
I'm still not sure if this whole professorship thing is something I can deal with - at least the politics of it.
While I (re)apply to phd programs, I think it'd be cool to get a little teaching experience under my belt. More and more I'm thinking of teaching high school not as a backup, but as something that could be kind of fulfilling.
Where do I start? Does it blow goats? Would you let me near your children?
tl;dr: it says "everything is shit" on my wall
I'm still not sure if this whole professorship thing is something I can deal with - at least the politics of it.
While I (re)apply to phd programs, I think it'd be cool to get a little teaching experience under my belt. More and more I'm thinking of teaching high school not as a backup, but as something that could be kind of fulfilling.
Where do I start? Does it blow goats? Would you let me near your children?
tl;dr: it says "everything is shit" on my wall
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And even then it has to be private lessons.
Because fuck if I'm going to teach a group of uneducated fools.
But when I find amazing talent and can give my level of skill to it? Fuck fucking yeah.
it's ok, pretty frustrating sometimes
And any of them smart enough to be worth your while are likely to be weiners
as an AP/IB kid, ramen noodle is sure he is much more smarter than you
I was an IB kid and I will tell you all right now that I am not smart
International Baccaleureate
It's dumb
lattice energies what's that
tells you something
I'm dumb as fuck, son
Teach a class that kids will only take if they want to
I just discovered this
I took the tests pretty much just for the hell of it, but I found out last week that my scores on those AP tests are going to save my ass and let me get out of this crappy junior college in 2 years even though I really fucked up this first semester
so I love AP tests now
I wish to God I had taken AP classes in high school or more classes at the community college last year
Trust me when I say you will be so happy to skip a lot of 100 level classes in college
I was thinking of looking around at charter/private schools, so I wouldn't have to stick to the state's ass curriculum. Then again... private school kids.
Dammit girl you are 16.
One hundred and fifty boys thinking about football and dipping in class
though for some reason boston college didn't give history credit for us history, only modern european, that was pretty dumb
what if it was an all girls catholic school?
that place has got to be a teacher's dream
the kids there are all so good
The same thing only they're thinking about sex and probably on valium
also they pay much, much worse than public schools
uh
did you get it
Easiest job ever.
What the fuck high school girls. I know from experience there are high school guys who want you too.
Why do you want so bad to bang me.
Every single one of them I met was an absolutely horrific douche
I've done a lot of observation and TAing, and have actual taught a few classes so far. I think I like the middle schoolers more so far.
"Ordinary. The kind of dangerous, beautiful ordinary that you just can't leave alone. Like an angel from the underworld or maybe a devil from paradise."
"It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation."
Middle schoolers? Really? Maybe it's just me, but I cannot for the life of me imagine actually being able to impart the level of knowledge required to mean anything to people that young.
Everyone was a little tiny precocious prick in middle school
middle school kids are bad enough already