Why do people become teachers if they don't like children?

They like to teach? You don’t have to like kids to like to teach. I know some of my teachers don’t like students but they love to teach and that’s what keeps them at their job, and probably the economy does too! But I hear it’s mostly the passion they have for their job, but you didn’t get this from me!

They don’t ‘hate kids’, they are just fed up with children that never do their homework, disrupt the class, and won’t follow rules.

Depending on their college degrees teachers can be paid really well but some teachers dont have the credentials to teach people their own age sometimes and end up in crappier jobs or they become teachers because they had a major in english, chemistry, and math and they needed a quick stable job so they end up as teachers

maybe because of the benefits of being a teacher… summer’s off and snow days and all that. i know what you mean, though… lol some teachers i’m just like…”really? we don’t want to be here either!” they shouldn’t blame us that their liberal arts degree in basket weaving of the Hopi Indian can’t get them a job any where else. -__-

but the ones above are right too

Really? You think there’s people out there who decided that they wanted to get paid practically nothing, they wanted to be surrounded by B.S. school politics, they wanted to work under principals who have an overinflated ego and abuse their power in school because they feel oh so powerless in the real world, deal with disrespectful and disruptive teens, complaining and whining parents, all because they have a need to boss around kids? Really? Interesting world you live in.

Renee and Miguel are perfectly right, but on top of that, sometimes students manage to break a teacher. For example, our school had a Spanish teacher, a perfectly fine one, that our class just decided that it didn’t like for one reason or another. We pretty much drove her up the wall, until one day, she cracked. She locked the classroom door and yelled at us for half the period before running out crying, and being fired the next day. It’s not always the teacher. Sometimes the kids bring them to a point where they just can’t handle it anymore, and they’re just angry. But, being a teacher, you have to have some hope that the next batch isn’t so bad, or that you make a difference even if it doesn’t seem like it.

I went through that in 9th grade. But now, they are just there to waste other students’ time when they are actually trying to make something of themselves.

Sometimes i wonder the same thing. some of the teachers don’t take time to teach right.everything is always being rushed. my daughter says her math teacher is teaching something new everyday and she hasn’t had time to learn what she had the day before he goes on to something new.

The only way for a teacher to make something of themselves is to make something of their students. The university levels don’t count in this, but that’s the entire point of a teacher. To try to build a group of kids into something better, to make a difference in the future by making a difference in the people that are the future.

Teachers work through the summer and on snow days. The idea of them having the summer off is a complete misconception.

or they just want the publicity if theey’re married to someone big int that town. Or the money…

The disrespect toward teachers is noted and as for teachers having summers and snow days off, you are misinformed. In truth, teachers are specialists in many areas that may elude you. Perhaps when you enter a profession, you may find that there is a large disconnect between what you actually do and what others believe you do.