In this day and age, our country’s competitive job industry is so focused on bringing in more engineers and technological centered applicants in order to gain a competitive edge within our own domestic homeland and the global spectrum. While these positions are important, I feel that “we” as a country have forgotten and overlooked the most important position there is to offer, the position of being an educational teacher.
According to the Mobile Digest of Education Statistics in 2017, 98.2 percent of children from the ages of 7-13 years old were enrolled in Elementary and Secondary schools, and this number is expected to increase 2-3 percent by 2027. That number may not be surprising since it is a formality in America for parents to enroll their children in school. But keep in mind that these children go under the wing of teachers for eight hours of the day and for these children to receive quality education at the grade school level. We must embrace the importance of these teachers and the impact they have on our children of America.
Being a teacher is an extremely tough career due to the fact it often calls for huge amounts of work outside of the workplace causing teachers to sacrifice their own time to spend with family in order to create the lesson plans and handouts they will need for class. According to the National Education Association the national average salary for teachers is roughly $46,000. For the work these teachers do, they are severely uncompensated and unappreciated. If we truly want our children to learn and be the best that they can be, we must embrace the idea of valuing our teachers more highly and accept the fact that these teachers can have more of an impact on our children than our own parents at times.
