Show i f of Happiness 1 J Here Are Few Reasons Why Teachers Quit Profession Hubbard Hoover and If p 1 Uc He lc Macrae 1 Hoover 11 7 met an interesting young i roman man at lunch today Hubbard retired school teacher IR Aid y you ou say Bay retired Isabelle 1 t sounds old not young young- I i Well ed this girl is young oung I should ve Lye said she retired from teach tench- it making her She felt was e 1 before her time She's now c e chief accountant for a national azine a big job How did she shed nd d it She had been a math teacher five years and then the bursar a a. a private school That was the 1 r r t h I 4 I Q sass J f fi i a H 1 f she put down on her pers An agency ency placed her he e says sas she still has to pinch herIt her- her It if to make sure mIre she's out of the thed d teaching ru rut t. t rt Vas teaching so 50 bad It be Ive I've known people ho o found teaching an exciting ad- ad always always dealing with ideas Id d d eager young minds a t. t The Other Things She She enjoyed the actual teach teach- g Hubbard It was the other Ings gs which seem to go with a aers aers ers er's life that got her downIn down In VIn the first place her teachers teacher's ary y just about covered the bare and left nothing for sant gracious living She now to tJ 3 four times as much and works only half as hard She said she loften often thinks of or the charming trained highly-trained people back in the high school she left still stin working for a pittance With no more ability than the they have she can now afford many luxuries that they can only dream about Next to the low salary the thing she resented most about a teachers teacher's life was the constant supervision by little busybodies Someone always looking over her shoulder Someone always looking down her neck telling her what she should and shouldn't do For Forthe Forthe Forthe the first time in her life she is free of or this Sure she has someone someone someone some some- one over her but as long as she does a good job no one snoops into her politics her religion or her private life Men Sh Shy Away Perhaps the thing she enjoys most about the business world is the free and easy social life No matter how young a teacher is men usually shy away from her heras heras heras as if she were an old maid They seem to be afraid of her brains Women are more friendly in a patronizing way They regard the teacher as a high-grade high servant who keeps their children occupied for a certain number of hours each week I Ilent II It wasn't that way when went lent to school Isabelle My parents parents parents par par- I respected my teachers and made a point of getting gelling acquainted with them the way it was with me too The teacher often visited at atour atour atour our house and always had the best room My Iy parents realized that we learned a great deal from the teacher that wasn't in the school schoolbooks books bools But this girl I met toda today claims that society no longer regards teaching as an honored profession She says that many fine young I people go into teaching nowadays I but only two types stay in it The Thc missionary who is willing to suffer suffer suffer suf suf- fer poverty loneliness and every indignity for the sake of the good she is doing And the timid soul who shrinks from the competition of the big world and clings at any cost to the security of a regular salary She felt she didn't belong to either class That's why she quit Copyright 1949 Hubbard Hoover |