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Let's play a little game, shall we? Let's say that you are a bright, promising math student at a state college. It's your second semester of your freshman year, and you've got your major down to one of two options: Math Education, or simply Math. You're taking courses that count for both majors, but by the start of your sophomore year, you're going to need to make a choice. So which one are you going to choose? Well, you decide that it comes down to what the career options are. You way your options, and this is what you find:
Career in Mathematics
-Starting Salary: $50,000-$100,000, give or take, with plenty of room to grow
-Opportunities for significant career advancement
-Potential for developing brand-new inventions or ideas
-Only have to deal with management and other professionals
-Can always rely on support, so long as the work is done
-Always in demand
-Almost always respected in the corporate environment
-Usually work at-will
Career in Teaching Math
-Starting Salary: $25,000-35,000, give or take, with a fixed, very slow rate of annual growth that may not even surpass inflation
-Limited opportunities for career advancement
-Has to submit to a host of standards and regulations, as well as the whims of the current school administration
-Has to deal with disrespectful students and parents
-Support is wildly inconsistent and often independent of actual performance
-Always in demand, but politicians may choose to not let that demand be fulfilled
-May often be disrespected in the work and the political environments
-Hard to fire, but can be transferred or endlessly harassed for poor performance
You tell me: If you were that student, which career choice would you make?
And you wonder why we have "bad" teachers? Really? It's because schools get the leftovers. The best and brightest minds know better than to waste their potential teaching a bunch of brats that often don't want to learn, serving administrators that often don't support them, talking to parents that often despise them, and vulnerable to politicians that kick them around like soccer balls. And yet, somehow, someway, those "leftovers" actually pull themselves up by the bootstraps and get stuff done. Yeah, if there were ever a segment of society that has learned the hard way how to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, it ain't the superrich. It's the teachers. The fact that we have any education at ALL, however little you think we have, is almost entirely because of the iron will of the teachers. Were it not for them, we would have been gone a LONG time ago.
And you don't think their work is visible enough. TROLOLOLOLOL! How 'bout you stop hunting and start LOOKING at what they've been doing all along!