Where Have all the Good Teachers Gone? in Mature Size Bites

Damn, the scarcity of good teachers from all over (preschools, elementary schools, primary schools, middle schools, high schools, technical colleges, community colleges, colleges, universities, and professional schools) is a crisis situation.

It appears to me that certain jealous colleagues all over are…can we say?

Running their great teachers/instructors/professors from academic institutions all over.

Growing up, my community taught me how crucial teachers were to a community and a society as a whole. Teachers are the most important group of people ever. It used to be, it is the main profession that serve people in a way of finding out what they were good at and what they weren’t…and to take that good and actually help contribute to their identities and life resumes.

Now, the reputation of the teacher title has gone by the waste side. And the few good teachers….they usually don’t stay in the profession. Even the years of unsupport from their administration wears on them so bad that it drives them away. Mostly, it drives them to learn another profession and do it or another trade and make a living that way.

There are a few teachers I’ve since encounter as an adult who are called to teach. Devastatingly, I’ve seen these instructors railroaded by jealous colleagues or just not enough support from the institution that they work for.

Teaching, these days, is not an easy business. Many kids now…they are being raised to become entitled brat bitch adults. They go around thinking that everyone owes them something. Well, first off, people are slaves to serve your every vapid whim. Another thing is that…life is not easy, and you aren’t entitled to everything in life. It is called hard work and experience.

I would love to get back into the trenches of teaching. As a program assistant at a university, even though the graduate students I take care of are adults, they still need guidance. They still need someone to listen to and relate to. If you think grown post-undergraduate students need me as a mentor to keep their head on straight…

Hell, this Generation Y…they need a lot of us to teach them the old school ways. The ways of hard work, unconditional acceptance, and most of all gratitude and decency.

Where have all the teachers gone?

Hmmm….

Most of you know where.

Best, S