I’m (21m) and I work as a science teacher/science communication and I’m in my last year in university.
I taught children since I was in high school and I am really good at teaching and developing children mentality because whenever I had a situation at work I would tell my mother she has 30 years of experience as a teacher.
I worked in a private company that taught me how to be a science communicator and me and my collegues we always prioritized children’s education over money and our own health and we always made sure that children are inspired by science and can understand it even though we where underpaid.
I left when my boss decided to be absolutely money focused giving only 2 fucks about children education.
Now I applied for a job as a science teacher with higher salary and workplace closer to my home, but the can’t give a fuck about children or whether they understand the topic or not, they don’t give a fuck about their mentality, the head teacher made in front of me while I was being (trained) at least 10 mistakes while she was dealing with only 2 children.
They give 4 till 7 years old information that’s absolutely ahead of their education level and they don’t explain it very well, they are abusing the parents urge to give their children a better education to the maximum level with fancy names and titles for the camps but the truth is most of the curriculum is just useless.
Plus they act friendly but they are not at all and they all work only to get more money without considering the child welfare, and the head teacher is a toxic woman.
I’m still in probation period so I can leave but i won’t get paid for the week I worked in, yet I waiting for specific companies to announce an available job vacancies, and might try my luck in those companies.
My soul dream in this life is to teach children in a better way than I was abused when I was their age, to teach them science the way I wanted it to be taught to me when I was young.
Should I just bite the bullet and continue for the sake of money and try to make a difference even though it will be very hard or should I quite right now?
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> My soul dream in this life is to teach children in a better way than I was abused when I was their age,
Might the residual trauma from that earlier abuse, be slanting your perspective? (are you the only outsider seeing the problems you’re describing?)
Businesses do tend to be money oriented. But I’d wonder what helps make them accountable for seeking and achieving acceptable results. eg. ‘accreditation’, rating reviews, former students’ reviews, etc.
( are ‘they’, the “only game in town”? might you look further afield? )