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Originally Posted by fhqwhgads
I appreciate the kudos, warrrreagl. How about you though? How would you feel if your child wanted to follow in your footsteps?
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For those who don't know, my field is college music professor. I spent 12 years teaching music in the public schools, then I spent 7 years training college students how to be music teachers. For the past 3 years, I've been just a plain old music professor. However, I feel very, very strongly about teaching, and I would discourage any offspring of mine that didn't have the right stuff to be a teacher based on my professional opinion. I would be honored beyond belief that they wanted to do it, but I wouldn't feel right about encouraging someone to step into a classroom if they shouldn't be there.
I have a nephew who is now in that situation. He is the only niece or nephew I have who wanted to go to work with me, so I took him once - he had a ball. He spent four years in college training to be an engineer and now he's suddenly switched to education because he wants to teach. My brother and my parents all asked me what I thought about his switch and I gave it my blessing. If I thought for a second he wasn' cut out for teaching, I'd say so. But I think he'll make a tremendous teacher one day.