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I was taking time off in 2022 when my daughter's high school CS teacher quit (to take a job at Microsoft). I volunteered to step in until they could find a qua

I was taking time off in 2022 when my daughter's high school CS teacher quit (to take a job at Microsoft). I volunteered to step in until they could find a qualified replacement. It ended up working out, but it was a pretty big problem to have an unlicensed teacher in the school. They ultimately had me enroll as a substitute who just happened to get assigned to the same classes every day, but they said if I wanted to come back the following year I'd need to become officially licensed. I could see myself teaching high school in retirement. Helps the community, keeps you busy, and your summers are open. But not if I have to jump through a bunch of make-work hoops for the privilege of helping out.

lurking15 3y ago
> I could see myself teaching high school in retirement. My calc & discrete math teacher in HS was a retired guy from bell labs, apparently knew claude shannon. He had made a bunch of money doing that and was just teaching at the HS as a philanthropic service in old age. He wrote & printed the textbooks we used. Practically every other teacher seemed inadequate afterwards. Oddly enough I had a professor in college who was from bell labs too, absolutely brilliant too and taught in the same, in some way brutal, style too.
downrightmike 3y ago
Just work at a community college, you just need a relevant masters degree.