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  Those unable to enroll? Adults at MAGA-Lardo
context: There are easier ways to almost qualify for welfare. >
  
  And they don't require as much student loan debt. >
  
  And here in Ohio you won’t have you have to see little ones spread measles and be hospitalized because the parents are brainwashed against vaccines thanks to the trump administration. >
  
  Oof I'm sorry Ohio 💀 >
  
  I’m so very tired of the people who perpetuate this mindset. >
  
  Why anyone would want to be a teacher or librarian in the current political climate is beyond me. The rights continued attack on teachers is going to lead to a massive Teacher shortage >
  
  Well written and I’m so sorry. I’m proud of you for standing your ground though it was horrible that you had to make this choice. These attacks are adding up to a wave of domestic terrorism, that forced one more passionate teacher out of the profession. 
  I’m a queer and trans preschool teacher in one of the most progressive counties in the country and I have never had to think about this bigoted backlash coming for me or my students… as an adult. As a queer 90s kid, my county was no Oklahoma but it was a major risk I took when I came out and led LGBTQ student activism. 
  But I only teach preschool on the weekends because the pay is abysmal and my family would be in poverty if I did it full-time. My partner is in college and until she graduates there is absolutely no way we can afford for me to follow a teaching career. Despite that I’m still slowly working through a degree in early childhood ed cause I really really care. But caring doesn’t pay for school supplies, rent, or healthcare. >
  
  Yet another "everybody wants it but no one wants to pay for it."
  The solution is simple: pay teachers enough to make it a coveted job, protect them from crazy parents/admin, and make it a viable career path that new teachers want to begin. >
  
  I love history and wouldn’t mind teaching it but everyone in my schools since middle school knew you don’t make money teaching. Sadly money seems to be a necessity so I went a different way. Only the truly passionate continue on to be teachers these days and of those most seem to burn out as admin and parents beat that passion out of them. >
  
  I left teaching 9 years ago and have never looked back. It destroyed my mental health, ruined my marriage, and I have never recovered from the experience. I poured myself into it - developed an AP Chemistry program, learned HTML and made a phenomenal web resource for my students, and reworked so many labs to make it enjoyable. All they wanted was a drone to teach to the test. 
  I now run industrial labs and make twice as much money with a tenth of the work. I came out on top professionally, but I'm dead inside. Meds, therapy, meditation, etc. doesn't touch it. I'll talk anyone out of a career in education to prevent becoming like me. >
  
  I'm sorry about that. I quit teaching this year as well. I couldn't do it anymore. I taught special education, and my work was so overwhelming. Then, my school didn't have a math teacher for my grade, so I had to take on doing math. I went and did the math lessons, created math content, and even did the quizzes for them. It was so exhausting. I would pass out from the work. I even on top of that was head coordinator for the academic bowl across my district, and I created the trivia questions and games for middle school. I would love to be hired to just do trivia for the rest of my life. I now have a database of over 30,000 questions now, and I can do a bunch more as well. I would love to be hired as a trivia writer. It's a dream job of mine. I refuse to go back to teaching. >
  
  There is NO shortage of teachers.
  There is only a lack of willingness to pay a FAIR WAGE. >
  
  I am amazed anybody still wants to be a teacher. I am in nursing and healthcare sucks sour balls but at least pays better than teaching. I would still discourage my kid from going into nursing and never teaching. >
  
  I almost did after subbing for two years, and my teacher mother warned me not to do it. She started right before the health benefits and retirement were made worse for future teachers, and we lived in a fairly low cost area, so it worked for her. A teacher today would have it much harder. >
  
  Far too many see Teachers as over paid Baby Sitters. They have no clue as to the skills required to entice a child to "Want to Learn".