Should You Still Become A Teacher In This Economy?
New teachers will always be needed, but in this tough economy many are and may continue to loose their jobs. With all the state budget cuts many are or will be getting cut, which is unfortunate as we really need more and better teacher, not less. But it takes money. We really need to put more towards education and less towards other areas and programs that are not needed as much.
In light of the current economy, is it still a good idea to go to school to become a teacher? Generally speaking, yes because the recession should not last forever. By time a new person going to college completes their education hopefully the economy will be turned around and the state budgets will be back in order. Or at least more funding for education will be in place in order to have more and better teachers.
From this end of the street many of the budget cuts appear to be having a negative effect on PE, Art, Music, etc. more then traditional classroom teachers. Therefore it appears careers in teaching at least in those areas should be stable, especially as older teachers retire. Then once things do turn around, hopefully the other areas (PE, Art, Music, etc) will come back as well.
In addition to needing more teachers (once funding is in place) we will always need better teachers and those teachers with the love, skill, and desire to teach our youth. We do not need those teachers only looking for a paycheck. Of course if all teachers got paid what they deserved that would be great and is an excellent goal to work towards, but bad teachers or those who only care about their paycheck really do need to go.
Even though things are tough now things will turn around and so yes now may be a great time to go to college to earn that degree in education. By time someone who starts today graduates the economy may be thriving and schools needing to hire teachers again.
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