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Primary school teaching...soft option?

  • 18-02-2008 6:18pm
    #1
    raindrops21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    I'm just wondering what the big attraction is with primary school teaching as a career. A lot of my friends are in their final year of their arts degrees and all suddenly want to be primary school teachers because they dont know what else to do.

    I just don't see what the attraction of the job is - the pay is barely livable and teachers are driven mad by their 30 or more screaming children for 6 hours a day. I can see how the holidays are a bonus (this is why they cant complain about the pay not being very good), and this is also probably why so many middle aged women opt for a career change into the profession.

    I honestly think primary school teaching is nothing more than a soft option....Views?


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  • #2
    dugout16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭dugout16


    Well i don't think you're friends should just do it because they don't know what they want to do, i think its a job you must be suited to and really want to do!


  • #3
    Trotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    I could write a book here but I won't.

    It is not a soft option. Its a tough but rewarding job. If you go into the job thinking its a soft option, ya wont last long at it. I've seen loads of people going for post grad courses and they do one week of observation in the class and decide against it. Its a vocation, and can be the best and worst job in the world, all in the same week.


  • #4
    Rosita
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,147 ✭✭✭Rosita


    raindrops21 wrote: »

    I just don't see what the attraction of the job is - the pay is barely livable and teachers are driven mad by their 30 or more screaming children for 6 hours a day.

    I honestly think primary school teaching is nothing more than a soft option....Views?



    It seems illogical that you write of a job where the pay is "barely livable" and teachers are "driven mad by their 30 or more screaming children for 6 hours a day" as a soft option. You make it sound like a Russian gulag, yet at the same time think it's the path of least resistance. It's good to be able to have it both ways.


  • #5
    Trotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    I don't think theres any need to post the same threads across different areas of boards. Its frowned upon, especially as they formed post 1 and 2 of your registration.

    Thread locked.

    Here's the redirect to the identical post in Work / Jobs. Im closing this off in the teaching area because I see it going nowhere except to wind up hardworking teachers, so.. Slán.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055239282


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