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Jonathan Epps's avatar

Unreal. I'm sorry you have to lose a client, but I am not teaching public high school anymore because of this political group.

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Suzanne Scacca's avatar

A friend of mine recently left his long-time teaching position because of DEI. He had to go in for "training" for four hours every month. And beyond the usual pronouns and language nonsense, the school was instructing teachers not to fail anyone. So they had to set up scoring on a bell curve *above* the failing mark.

What did you end up doing? Going into private education, like a Catholic school or something?

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Jonathan Epps's avatar

I taught private down here in Florida, but it was a joke: A country club where they paid to cheat. Quit. That was my last teaching job. I worked at a deli for a while. Less stress; bad pay. Still looking for the new path. In the meantime, writing fiction.

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Suzanne Scacca's avatar

Oh man, that is bleak. We are utterly screwed when these kids enter the workforce.

I guess the good news is that it's freed you up to write. I like the story so far. Haven't gotten through too much of it yet (mainly because I can't stand to be in front of my computer when I'm not working), but I've enjoyed what I've read.

Are you hoping to make a living from that or are you going to look for other opportunities? Have you considered creating online courses? I bet you could make decent money publishing classes on platforms like Udemy.

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Jonathan Epps's avatar

I don’t know what I’m doing lol but thanks for the lead. But honestly I never want to teach again.

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