What can lead a teacher to believe that her proffesion is irreplaceble?

Question

Minus the paycheck.

And please be creative with answering this because I have already thought of common moral lessons that [rarely] happens in Real life like...

-Because she realizes that from her class there could be more proffesions that will eventually come out of her students and that she is the one who is guiding them into that proffesion.

-Because, she sees her students graduate and feel that all her suffering is rewarded, somehow.

-Et cetera.

+ I've already started her character. She is an architecture student who didn't finish her course because she keeps on failing it yet she likes the course but since she's been draining out her parent's money, she decides to transfer to education and became a teacher to help payback her parent's money. She hates being a teacher. She doesn't like the paper work and all the attitude of her students since they make a lot of noise. Now, she wonders why do some people likes [to be] being a teacher?

*Please be detailed A.S.M.P.

Answer 1

Too many enter the profession from the working class blue collar world as the single easiest step into white collar middle class.

All their life, the only real example of middle class professionals they have known is the educator. They've seen teachers drive nice cars (compared to what their family has) and live in nice neighborhoods (compared to where they live); coming to school in nice clothes.... They recognize that this profession provides a better life than they are experiencing and they aspire to that life without considering the demands and sacrifices of the occupation.

Qualification to the profession is relatively simple (compared to other middle class professions) and finding a job is not that difficult. Once in position they find that there is job security and that, even though they will argue this point, the pay is generally much higher than the community-wide average.

They then begin to not see any viable alternatives outside of education because they have never seen any employment environment outside of education. They went to 12 years through HS then 4-5 years of college and entered directly into the academic world. It's all they know.

Most who look outside of education for employment are quickly brought to reality that most jobs at their salary require specialized education (which we no longer provide prospective teachers - they don't get a degree in their subject but in 'education') and experience (classroom experience isn't usually considered to be "progressively responsible management experience"); so they are stuck there.

It is then not that the teacher is irreplaceable in society (we replace teachers all the time) but instead that society has no use for the teacher except as a teacher - he/she can not replace the job with anything better.

Answer 2

I think that a lot of teachers go into their profession because they genuinely like working with kids (at least in the beginning, before some of them get bitter and jaded). Also, I think that a lot of the reason is because education is one of the most valuable things that a person can have no matter what they choose to do with their life, and that helping someone to become a better adult can inspire feelings of pride and contentment. All of the really passionate teachers I've ever had seemed to enjoy their profession because they knew that they were doing something to help someone else in a way that they truly enjoy, otherwise grading all those papers and dealing with all those brats just wouldn't be appealing for anybody.

Answer 3

It's profession. Please tell me you're not a teacher!