Is it that hard to be a teacher in the US or the media just portray American kids as bad?

Question

or it's the truth?

Answer 1

I think the media overplays this in the media. Alot of it depends on where you are teaching and the style of the teacher.

Answer 2

They're not all bad by any means, although I would certainly not want to work in the inner city schools. But the real problem is the teachers' union. They are modeled on the factory workers' unions, and have a similar mentality. Kids are not assembly line objects, they are individual human beings. Teachers cannot be sorted on the basis of seniority the way assembly line workers rather plausibly can.

If you want to be a teacher in America, work for a private school.

Answer 3

I think it depends upon where one teaches. I teach 7th and 8th grade in a small town school, and all my students are great. Every once in a while we have a bad kid, but that's rare. I'm sure even in the big cities the good kids out number the bad.

Answer 4

I think it's how much organizing the teachers have to do. Stay up to late hours marking test results and planning for classes the following day and stuff like that.

Answer 5

I think rattail has it right, but would add that the teachers I know think that the government regulations cause most of the problems. Private schools don't have many such problems.

Answer 6

I went through a typical U.S. public school system all the way from Kindergarten through High School, and I can tell you this...

My teachers were lucky to come out it alive!

(They still always gave me a B+, though...)

'Cause they were afraid to give me anything lower, and I certainly didn't deserve an A-...

Be afraid!

Be very afraid...!!!

Answer 7

its hard for teachers in UK and USA
due to media and junk food video games that promote violence

Answer 8

i,ve got a friend who,s a teacher and she could tell you that a lot better than i could .and i,m sure sure she could debate
the issue .