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The reason that taking parental leave doesn't hurt your career is because if you stay a classroom teacher, you have no opportunity for advancement. And although
by dwater 7y ago
The reason that taking parental leave doesn't hurt your career is because if you stay a classroom teacher, you have no opportunity for advancement. And although salary ranges vary widely by district, there are many districts where your salary doesn't change by more than 20% over 30 years. So it isn't really treated as a career in the sense you've used it as much as it is employment.
- asark 7y ago"Career" as synonymous with "job with lots of promotion potential" is... a sad place we've arrived at.
- dragontamer 7y agoTeacher -> Principal -> Superintendent -> County Executive Obviously, not everyone wants to go up the management chain, but engineers don't always go to middle-management or C-level either.
- asark 7y agoAlso: consulting, curriculum design, instructional coaching and a bunch of other options, if you care to aim for them. Granted a lot of them are more likely to be parasitical than actual teaching is (though each of them can be useful and good!), but status, pay, and autonomy failing to track actually effective and useful work is hardly limited to the teaching field. It's kinda the norm.