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My district will not pay for me to get a grad degree, but they also don't require it. This is the first I have heard of districts paying teachers to go to grad school, but things like benefits vary a lot from state to state.

The summer vacation is a great part of the gig. There are some unspoken expectations for lesson planning during that time in many cases, especially your first few years teaching. You will get maybe a week of teacher workdays, but they will cram them full of mandatory training and meetings. If you say you need time to lesson plan, admin will say you had all summer to do that. There is of course a lot of variation and nuance, but there is almost a culture of wage theft in education when it comes to your free time.

The pension depends on the state and so.etimes the district. My health care plan is crap. They downgraded it last year as a cost cutting measure.

It is great having summers off at the same time my son does. Definitely a win there. During the year it doesn't always overlap well. My son is in elementary and I teach high school, and they start at very different times because of bus availability.

You are spot on about it getting easier after a few years. I'm finishing up my 5th year and next year I will finally teach the same preps two years in a row for the first time. I picked up at least one new class to teach each year so far and have taught 6 different math classes. The reason I got moved around so much is because of turnover, so I'm pretty sensitive to it.

But here's my story: I worked as a mechanical engineer for 10 years and made more than twice what I make now as a teacher. My wife has a successful business and we have a lot of savings, so I'm not complaining about the pay. I chose this. I feel like I should advocate for my coworkers though, because they are struggling. And if they keep leaving, my job gets a lot harder. The whole "if you don't like it, don't teach" thing is fine. A lot of teachers left after the Covid remote learning year. Then it really sucked for those who stayed. We're getting back to normal staffing now at least. I don't think finding more people like me who are financially ok and do it more for fun is sustainable for the whole country to be educated.

Also, I have never worked harder in my life.

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