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Originally posted by Pennington
I would love to be a high school teacher. Social studies of some kind.
But to me there is a big differance between a teacher and a parent. Mostly that a teacher will only see any single child for four years maximum. A child never will grow close to a teacher and be able to tell him everything. A teacher will never really see himself in his students or watch them graduate college get married and have grandkids. Nobody goes crying to their teacher when they break up with their boy/girlfriend. There are so many more emotions in being a parent than any other thing you can do. To me, it just seems incomparable to anything else.
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You actually get a lot of that in the lower grades. Okay, you may not see them graduate college, but you can make a big and obvious difference in their lives by giving them a little attention and respect. And if you're a guy, especially, they'll be all over you. A lot of young kids these days don't have a father at home and there aren't many male teachers in the K-3 range.
Oh yeah. And you'd be _amazed_ what a second-grader will tell you. Try stopping them...
Rodney (not a full teacher myself, but been around)