Why I Stopped Applying for Teaching Positions

Friends and family continue to ask me why I’m not teaching. This is my response.

In 2006, the summer after I graduated high school, I took a job teaching a classroom full of toddlers. As an assistant teacher, I made $8.00 an hour and was tasked with setting up the classroom before families arrived, distributing snacks and meals, helping with diapers and toilet training, teaching…