Schools a desperate to find teachers.

[lesterstone]

If only the public knew how close to the truth this is!

[mbsmith]

Subs from Subway, genius! We need boots on the ground, even with shredded lettuce and salami chunks stuck to the soles. And hey, those felonies just add to the richness of life experience and demonstrate a true life-long learner's heart.

[mystuhree]

That military joke hits really hard. We had to give a teacher pepper spray and handcuffs to fill in for our SRO because the local police would rather do ANYTHING than put up with our students.

[TheNameIsKymani]

"They would rather go to war than sub in a classroom" 😭

[matthewross]

We did this to ourselves. In some states you can earn more working in fast food than you can at a school WITH a degree. So going from subway to teaching would be a step down in pay.

[colinwalker]

I desperately wanted to be a teacher after my first experience with a teacher who genuinely cared about both us as students and had passion for what he taught. I wanted to be just like him, so I talked to him.

Turns out the only way he could justify financially being able to teach and having a family was because he married a Lawyer. He said the job can be very fulfilling, but as a High School Student I knew how teachers are generally treated by kids, parents, and the schools.

He recommended that if I had a love for learning and the subjects he taught to learn a way to apply it and teach others as I do, because it’s better than doing a thankless job for little reward while being abused.

I’m currently in my Junior Year of College double majoring in Historic Preservation and History, one is to pay the bills, the other to fill that passion. I still would want to teach, but if I did, I would have to do it anywhere but the USA so I could make a comfortable or livable wage.

[nowhy]

It’s funny bc literally last week our main teacher quit, so the school found a sub after searching for weeks before she quit, but then that sub had to leave for a week, so we had another sub, and then that sub got sick or something and they had to get a sub for her and we ended up with this random guy who was somebody’s dad

[victorgines]

Spoken like a true teacher. Your sir are qualified to guide my 3 to the brightest of futures.

[almisami]

And yet when you have a bachelor's degree they won't actually take you as a sub full-time because they need someone on-call for advanced maths / science classes at the high schools.

[tundrakitty]

Too accurate. In 7th grade my science teacher got fired only a month or so into the year and needed to be replaced. School kept throwing sub after sub at us and every one of them kept saying that every single class of every period was awful and that they weren’t coming back. The principal stepped in to discipline as well as teach the class herself several times. In the end we learned absolutely nothing and basically just had a free period and A+ for Science cause no matter how poorly the class acted, barely more than one assignment was passed out each day and I suppose the school didn’t see it fit to punish all of us when it was every single period of Science specifically acting out in the first place. No one class made it ahead of the other- meaning no class made any progress throughout the entire year.

[maromania]

I was 3 years into my 4 year degree when my scholarships and cash ran out. When looking at loans, I realized the teachers in my area made less than what retail was paying, I was never going to pay off even the smallest loan. Tack on all the garbage our government does to teachers, and who was being put as head of education in 2016, I gave up on the idea. bounced between food and retail every since, starting an education channel on my other account to scratch that teaching itch. I still sometimes regret it, but never anywhere NEAR enough to go back.

[claytoniusdoesthings]

"Many of these proposals labor under the delusion that students are laser focused in school at all times, or that seniority equals superiority."

[secretagentkay]

“They would rather go to war than sub in a classroom”
Truer words have never been spoken lmaooo

[stoutyyyy]

Man, we’ll really do literally anything except pay teachers adequately

[BookWormEternity]

Bro, this hits hard
It took just over a month at my high school for 4 teachers to quit, 5 subs quit, a replacement teacher quit (just after first), and a teacher got arrested.
On top of this, I don't get to school till after 9 am when class starts at 8:45 due to lack of bus drivers.

[Asigedge]

This is why discipline is needed for our kids...and their parents.

[James_Irish]

Oh my God. As a subway employee who's working on paying off my car loan before I go back to school to finish my degree in elementary education, this hits different. And as the son of two teachers, I can tell you that I, working an average of 36 hours weekly, make only a couple thousand less annually than what my mom was making as a teacher at a private Christian school, working 60+ hours weekly, combining her in-school and out-of-school work for her classroom. Somehow, she still managed to earn a Master's Degree in Human Nutrition (with honors) online, be a mother to five children, several of whom with extreme special needs, and basically be a counselor for some of her students, ask while doing this. For all her flaws, that woman is a goddamn superhero.

[ajbrooks]

they really are just having anyone that can breathe subbing rn like last year we had a sub that had graduated from our school the year before

[writingisfun]

Almost a hundred percent true. My 3rd grade teacher taught for 2-3 years without an official teaching certificate. Honestly, I loved her.

[kaebsauce]

"Mr. Jared? Can you help me with question 4?"