“Teaching has brought me more joy and challenges than I ever could have expected. But all these issues lead me to believe, brokenheartedly, that teaching simply isn’t a desirable path for young Black people anymore,” erinaileennnn writes
Illustration: By Blacksneakers It was a cool and sunny spring afternoon the first time I heard one of my students use the N-word. It was lunch, and a few tenth-graders had crowded into my classroom to eat and talk about video games after my fourth-period English class. I was a student teacher at the time, and I was in charge of all the morning classes that day, as my mentor teacher was out sick.
The answer to this question became increasingly clear as I ventured deeper into the profession. I decided to leave the Bay Area after I got my degree for one reason: I simply could not afford to stay. In the Bay Area, it is not only the quality of education that can be predicted by how close to Google’s campus you live but the salary of the teachers.
Once I made it to New York, I was lucky enough to end up teaching high-school English at a school whose mission is to desegregate the incredibly segregated New York City school system. The first year of teaching is notoriously challenging: Sleepless nights of lesson planning, tears after work, and feelings of inadequacy are considered standard, if not expected. While I loved my job, my first year was certainly no different.
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