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Girl Talk 3w
Yea this is my hot take. Paraprofessionals aren’t really a good or professional type of job. You rarely need college experience for it. It’s just lazy ppl pipeline to feeling good abt working w sped kids. Hence why I hate my job. I went for more than this
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Anonymous 3w

Now now I’m salty BECAUSE I went to be a real full on teacher and unfortunately I was the only person who was wanting and willing to move out and put all the effort for it, then realized my “friends” don’t want that nor my ex couldn’t afford it. So everything got shut down and I had to move back home where the turn over rate for my focus area is like 0%. It’s terrible. The only jobs I can do is substitute work. That’s actually some bullshit. Like 1% of what I could make on salary.

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Anonymous 3w

Oh and that mean girl to nurse/sped teacher pipeline is 100% real bc they lost control of their own lives if they need to control others, to a whole different degree. I don’t even want to work w kids. I went to be around teenagers and idk actually instill reasoning and deep connecting lessons with them, like real conversations and stuff, not whatever these actual kids be on today

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

And I don’t use like ANY of my skills. I don’t get my hands on paperwork or making lessons which like the WHOLE POINT and being a parapro was ass. Parents hate their kids. Teachers hated our kids. Kids hated the kids. I hated the parapros. Like why tf you 40-70 y/r and never got out of this or even idk got an associates degree to learn abt their brains n stuff? Like those women are INSANE Karen’s in those classrooms. And they don’t GET the kids brains. Like how they think or view the world.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

So yea I’m stuck with my social studies focus and no jobs opening up expect sub and para work. I don’t want that really, like at all. I want to controll the room. I want to teach and make connections w my students. Not have to focus on if my student is doing a life ending maneuver or not, or having to deal with grown women all day who didn’t know what to do when a kid threw up and pooped. Like IM CHILDLESS?! What??!! I know better than them fr. It was wild. Or their drama oh my god it was bad

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