Can you tell me your experience prior to starting? I finished my first year of uni as a business major but I'm using college to develop myself professionally don't really care about the career since I wanna start my own business down the line.

I think the issue isn't so much that society just doesn't value teachers (which I believe is true in the United States), it's a problem of supply and demand. The wages are lower for teachers than for, say, engineers or doctors because there are too many of them. You mentioned that some of the classes you took for your education degree were not as rigorous as classes you teach to students in high school. I would bet that if the process of becoming a teacher were as rigorous as becoming a doctor or engineer, teachers would be paid more because there would be less teachers. Becoming a teacher in the U.S. is too easy. Students who decide to major in education even have some of the lowest average SAT scores.

@@rtlau-mk4di I wouldn't say it's easy. I worked my butt off to be a teacher. Most of the "easy" classes were gen ed classes that EVERYONE has to take like English and history. The actual teaching classes varied in difficulty depending on who was teaching, what the content of the class was, etc. Yes, there were a few people in my cohort who got a free pass when maybe they shouldn't, but to say that it's "easy" is disgenuine. And part of the reason why it might be "easy" now is because they are so desperate to get anyone with a pulse into some of these schools that can't seem to hire enough staff. We honestly wouldn't be here right now if we had just paid teachers more and created better working conditions to begin with instead of waiting until the ONLY way to get teachers into the field is to literally just hand them the job with little more than a background check. This is 100% the fault of a society that has undervalued teachers for far too long.

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This is generally not maintainable because money needs to be made. Are you implying both parents should work part time to home school the child? Curious as to what you think a realistic and feasible solution would be if both parents were homeschooling the child.

@chandlerknowsbest I don’t think that’s what they were implying. I think they were saying that fathers can also raise and be at home with their children just like mothers can. While not traditional, there are some cases where men are stay-at-home fathers while the mother is at work.

​@@alectoubin9330That's already happening.

Haha, more Chandlers... I'm not so sure 😅 but it definitely needs more common sense! 😆

You're welcome! Glad I'm not the only one 😆

Agreed. Although, while nothing lasts forever, we should try to sustain our natural values, family, relationship, and unity, rather than end things through separation, and give all power to the elite who do understand the power of families.

I completely agree. Feminism has created more division than unity.

It does WAY more than make sense. Go back and look at the history of the welfare system, equal rights movement and the changes that came thru the 60's, 70's and early 80's. Removing men from the household in order for women to get state benefits created a system of control (by preventing the core family unit that held together and was backbone of civil rights movement), created capitalist envy (which drove desire to outdo the Jonese next door), and to prevent the ability for men to organize by denying them access to their sons via creating adversarial relationships with the mothers (and creating the prison pipeline for young men today). Mom's can't control their sons, just like they can't control their hot-in-their-tail daughters who are chasing Tyrell & Rayray. Parenting of multiple kids is a two person job that really needs 4 people (grandparents, aunts, siblings, etc.). An old black coworker used to tell me that integration was the worst thing that happened to his community. He grew up before and during the transition. It destroyed the family unit and self sufficiency that his community HAD to do one their own. The community took care of the kids, including the neighbors being able to discipline them, give them chores or work and that's where the kids learned skills that would apply to whatever trade they'd get into to earn money. They learned all the skills to build a house from the ground up (foundation, framing, wiring, piping, brickwork, etc.) The women could cook up a storm, had daycares, sewing skills, were professional cleaners and educators. Integration became the Walmart of society in the way that it replaced community values with opposing big box super capitalist envy ones. It took a wrecking ball to those communities independence and made them say "I want what THAT group of people got; our stuff ain't good enough." This automatically reduces the value of your own and elevates the value of the other group who only cares about your dollars and your self destruction. Migrants & immigrants from other cultures maintain their identity when they come here for a few generations, but they still keep their neighborhood stores or take over ones in the hood. They keep their advantage b/c they aren't targeted by the divisive welfare system. They keep their husbands and families together b/c they recognize they're in non-friendly territory and they are very much "other". Whereas we chase the American dream in a place where the system is rigged to make you fail & will put other groups above you to drive home that point. Capitalism blows and Femnzm was co-opted and repurposed to create a block of people who are easily controlled. Once all the men are gone, who are going to do the dirty & dangerous jobs? Daddy govt could turn off the water, food, electricity and gasoline at any point; what are all those empowered women gonna do then? Protesting won't do anything and 99.999% don't have the skills, knowledge or access to turn anything back or nor rebuild all those infrastructures from scratch. Whereas you couldn't throw a baseball in a football stadium full of guys without hitting 3 or 4 of them who are trained in any of those areas. Guys do whats NEEDED to build & maintain society. There is no choice for us.

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A female with reproductive organs and XX chromosomes.

I have to do something similar to get jobs in my field as woman. I go by a male shortened version of my name and it helps a lot.

I think you misunderstood my point. Women happen to show the most interest in fields that pay way less than male dominated fields i.e Nurses and teachers. If you want to make the same as men, or more, become an engineer. Because women aren't going into those high paying fields, they naturally make less. I did not say women don't want to get paid high salaries, but they clearly don't want to do the work that it takes to get paid the high salary.

@@ChandlerKnowsBest Women in male dominated fields still get paid and less and have a harder time getting promoted.

That's very interesting! I wonder why that is 🤔💭

The feminism of today is not the same as before. I also work in a male dominated field Cybersecurity and I have NEVER felt undermined. BTW been in tech for 11 years. And if I were to ever be treated that way you best BELIEVE I’m not sticking around in that company. If you love yourself you would walk away from a toxic environment and not allow yourself to be treated so poorly. Have a backbone

Also mindset is powerful. If you want to act as a victim because ur a woman then you will remain stagnant because ur mind is stagnant

That's funny as if teaching, social worker, or nursing are easy careers. Emotional labor is labor.

​@lw498 no one is saying those careers are easy. However, if you are going to become a nurse, you should know that you are going into a field that will not pay you that much. If you want to make 6 figures or more, you need to become a physican/doctor or go into a higher paying field like tech, which most women don't do. It's a self inflicted problem. Women have more education than men and can easily decide which field to take. You have every right to go into a field that pays high salaries. Statistically, women don't show interest in those fields. You cant become a teacher, which pays an average of 65k a year, and expect to make six figures because you're a women 😂 try becoming an engineer, bank investor, CEO, or lawyer. If more women did those types of jobs it would lower the gap drastically. Although I don't think that's a good idea, it's a solution to what you guys complain about.

@@ChandlerKnowsBest in fact, the gender pay gap is mainly a mother pay gap. Also, high salaries normally aquire hard and long work and the burden of responsability. A lot of women don't want that.

Awww thank you!!! I'm glad to be back :)

Thank you I appreciate it :)

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Blaming society is much easier than taking responsibility, unfortunately.

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