50 Truths People Refuse to Accept Even Though They Are Hard Facts

This next one also feels like it’d be hard to deny the truth. I’m not sure if the person who wrote this was thinking of a particular aspect of the educational system, but all you have to do is look at teaching as a profession to know that something has gone terribly wrong.

It’s getting harder and harder for schools to find teachers, because of a combination of fewer people becoming teachers and more teachers burning out and leaving the profession after a few years. And why wouldn’t they? The pay is bad, the students are little monsters, and the parents are even bigger monsters. You’d have to pay me a million dollars to be a teacher.