Yeah, I could go out now with my sick leave. There's a hitch in the system, though, where in order to get the career license you don't have to renew, you have to go the full 30 years w/o using sick leave toward the total, and I'll need that for either subbing or teaching part-time.
I didn't mean Driver's Ed isn't legit, just that coaches practically have a closed shop.
I started teaching in '96. The only thing that has really caused me to think the kids have changed is Covid. Other than that, what change there is has been gradual and the biggest changes have been in me. The Internet wasn't really much of a thing for my first few years. Cell phones weren't much of a thing until a few years after that. They are both curveballs that have affected schools, for sure. I imagine teachers in the '50s said the same thing about rock & roll. Shoot, there's a
Socrates quote about it: "Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise [sic] their teachers." And the kids we've taught over the course of our careers will say the same thing about their own kids' generations.
