- you can change jobs (within teaching)
- you can start a business. So many of you have businesses anyway--why not go full-time? In brief, why are you subsidizing an underfunded school system with your volunteer hours? You are not just "being kind, being helpful"--you are part of the problem. You are allowing a broken system to hobble on. This is analogous to giving an alcoholic FREE BOOZE and then letting them sleep it off on your couch. There has to be a Day of Reckoning. The system will not understand it needs fixing until it HAS TO REALIZE. Call it an intervention--for our schools, and for our system of funding. I call it "National Teach to the Contract Day."
So, mow those lawns, teach those sax lessons, paint those houses, clean those toilets, cook, sell crafts, sew things, start a concierge service. Take the LSAT. Take the GMAT. Take the MCAT. Invent something. Amass your savings. Live frugally. And then withdraw your labor.
- tutor privately: see "Confessions of a High Paid Tutor" for more ideas. Granted, the article is 2 years old and smacks of 'I want to blog to make money so I'll throw in every word I can to draw hits....' But it is hope-inducing.
Better: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/04/education/04tutor.html
There are lots of philosophical issues related to the type of tutoring described in this article, but most noteworthy to me:
"Tutors are paid as much as $1,997 per child..."
do you make 2K per kid you teach? DO YOU!?!?!?
You might, if you:
- work in NJ, CT, NY, CA
- have taught for, oh, about 300 years
- or....teach elementary school, because you only have about 25 kids in a class
Don't get your panties in a bunch elementary teachers--"only" is a matter of perspective. More about the difficulties in teaching elementary school in later posts....
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