alt Hacker NewsOh god, what’s the deal with horrendous people becoming teachers? Lately, I’ve been, uh, “reminiscing” about how terrible adults were to kids when I was a kid (I’m gen X.)
It’s no wonder I turned my interest to the computer - it was only ever a jerk if I programmed it like that.
Low barrier to entry and hard to get fired once you're in.
Rotten people put on a good face in the interview and then spread their misery around for decades to some of our most vulnerable. It happens in pretty much every unelected position in the public sector in my experience.