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Post by 33coach on Sept 9, 2022 10:07:55 GMT -6
ive tried to quit 3 times. and then spring rolls around and i start getting the itch...
its a grind for sure, although i will say....being an off campus coach makes work/life balance feel so much better...when im at the school im not at work.
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Post by fantom on Sept 9, 2022 11:35:47 GMT -6
So the theory we're going with is that since student loans make college more expensive eliminating loans will make college more accessible? Nope, regulating the public universities in some manner would go a long way though. Capping tuition and fees doesn't seem like too much to ask. Fine idea but it only works if the legislature provides the funding which they haven't been doing. |
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Post by kylem56 on Sept 11, 2022 14:32:15 GMT -6
Been doing this for 10 years. I love every minute of it. But I became a dad in the last year and I have found that I am spending way more time raising other people’s kids than my own. The time commitment and the year round schedule is becoming a strain on my marriage. I think it’s time to walk away. I honestly am not interested in staying in the classroom if I’m not coaching. I have never done anything else and have no clue what to do, how to even look for a 9-5, or how my skills as a coach can find me employment elsewhere. Anyone else been through this? I could definitely use some advice. Well kudos to you for recognizing exactly what is happening. Alot of people keep trying for years and makes everything worse. You never know, you may find after your kids are old enough to go to school that you may want to coach again, but congratulations to you for realizing family is more important now. I unfortunately learned this lesson the hard way. My soon-to-be-ex and I dated for a couple years before we married and I always coached then. However, she came from a family where none of her siblings played sports, they were all homeschooled and didnt realize that sometimes as a teacher/admin/coach, you are at shcool outside of the 8am-2:30pm window. And ultimately our conflicts were affecting our son. My soon-to-be-ex wife was homeschooled our son and we have baby in the next 10-20 days so I get the strain it can cause but you may have to stay with teaching until the semester break unless you have something lined up. What is your degree in? That would be step 1. I know you said you dont want to teach if youre not coaching but until you find something sustainable, I woud look into online schools, state virtual academies, something like that. I know of coaches who live in the same town as me who coach for school A (in southeast Michigan) but teach virtually for Ohio or Indiana Virtual Academy. Real 9-5 jobs that allow you to coach. Real estate seems to be awful popular these days. My head coach when I played (graduated in 2005) did real estate and still coaches to this day as an assistant and does real estate. Our Head Coach where I teach/coach now is a teacher but he the ability to walk away and will likely do real estate full time. Insurance adjusters is another gig. Law enforcement, or working as a guard as the jail or local juvenile facility are other gigs I know some coaches do. i hope this helps. Congratulations on the young family, always put them first, & God Bless! |
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Post by tog on Sept 11, 2022 14:36:32 GMT -6
So the theory we're going with is that since student loans make college more expensive eliminating loans will make college more accessible? Nope, regulating the public universities in some manner would go a long way though. Capping tuition and fees doesn't seem like too much to ask. , messing with the supply and demand equilibrium in the first place is what screwed it all up let the whole system fail |
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Post by CS on Sept 11, 2022 16:12:11 GMT -6
Coach, if no one teaches, who educates future generations? Do we just let our society implode? I know it's more nuanced than that, just asking. Classroom teachers will be obsolute in the not-too-distant future. All instruction will be via video or online. Test scores would say otherwise. It’s really sad how much kids regressed during the last few years |
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Post by 33coach on Sept 12, 2022 0:09:21 GMT -6
Classroom teachers will be obsolute in the not-too-distant future. All instruction will be via video or online. Test scores would say otherwise. It’s really sad how much kids regressed during the last few years i think that had more to the fact that the school system has been rejecting technology for so long that when they needed it...they had 0 infrastructure or knowledge to do so. the system failed the kids... not the method. |
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Post by coachd5085 on Sept 12, 2022 6:21:45 GMT -6
Test scores would say otherwise. It’s really sad how much kids regressed during the last few years i think that had more to the fact that the school system has been rejecting technology for so long that when they needed it...they had 0 infrastructure or knowledge to do so. the system failed the kids... not the method. A big part of that is going to be the level of maturity of the students. The percentage of students capable of flourishing via distance/independent learning is likely quite low. Just look at how few adults function well in an independent environment. Look at the countless threads lamenting things like off season attendance, or complaints about coworkers etc. |
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Post by willydee1 on Sept 12, 2022 9:12:20 GMT -6
Been doing this for 10 years. I love every minute of it. But I became a dad in the last year and I have found that I am spending way more time raising other people’s kids than my own. The time commitment and the year round schedule is becoming a strain on my marriage. I think it’s time to walk away. I honestly am not interested in staying in the classroom if I’m not coaching. I have never done anything else and have no clue what to do, how to even look for a 9-5, or how my skills as a coach can find me employment elsewhere. Anyone else been through this? I could definitely use some advice. Well kudos to you for recognizing exactly what is happening. Alot of people keep trying for years and makes everything worse. You never know, you may find after your kids are old enough to go to school that you may want to coach again, but congratulations to you for realizing family is more important now. I unfortunately learned this lesson the hard way. My soon-to-be-ex and I dated for a couple years before we married and I always coached then. However, she came from a family where none of her siblings played sports, they were all homeschooled and didnt realize that sometimes as a teacher/admin/coach, you are at shcool outside of the 8am-2:30pm window. And ultimately our conflicts were affecting our son. My soon-to-be-ex wife was homeschooled our son and we have baby in the next 10-20 days so I get the strain it can cause but you may have to stay with teaching until the semester break unless you have something lined up. What is your degree in? That would be step 1. I know you said you dont want to teach if youre not coaching but until you find something sustainable, I woud look into online schools, state virtual academies, something like that. I know of coaches who live in the same town as me who coach for school A (in southeast Michigan) but teach virtually for Ohio or Indiana Virtual Academy. Real 9-5 jobs that allow you to coach. Real estate seems to be awful popular these days. My head coach when I played (graduated in 2005) did real estate and still coaches to this day as an assistant and does real estate. Our Head Coach where I teach/coach now is a teacher but he the ability to walk away and will likely do real estate full time. Insurance adjusters is another gig. Law enforcement, or working as a guard as the jail or local juvenile facility are other gigs I know some coaches do. i hope this helps. Congratulations on the young family, always put them first, & God Bless! Thanks for the advice and kind words. My degree is in History. Once this season is over I am going to take a hard look at what is out there. I took some advice from here and am exploring how the job search process works using the internet. |
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Post by 33coach on Sept 12, 2022 9:57:58 GMT -6
i think that had more to the fact that the school system has been rejecting technology for so long that when they needed it...they had 0 infrastructure or knowledge to do so. the system failed the kids... not the method. A big part of that is going to be the level of maturity of the students. The percentage of students capable of flourishing via distance/independent learning is likely quite low. Just look at how few adults function well in an independent environment. Look at the countless threads lamenting things like off season attendance, or complaints about coworkers etc. just like anything. independent learning is a learned skill not an inherent trait. if we set it up right, and support it, it will work. |
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Post by coachcb on Sept 12, 2022 10:12:07 GMT -6
Classroom teachers will be obsolute in the not-too-distant future. All instruction will be via video or online. Test scores would say otherwise. It’s really sad how much kids regressed during the last few years
It's ugly in our neck of the woods. We've got groups of kids that are at least a semester behind where they should be. Those that were struggling before Covid are a year or more behind the curve.
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