[jms429]

As a former computing teacher, I loved Scratch. I remember reading about it on a Thursday evening on Slashdot, maybe spring of '08, or 09.

I had a free lesson first thing the next day, so I installed it on the network then had a class of 10 year olds give it a whirl. Had a full scheme of work written by the Monday, and was demoing it to other schools by the summer.

Loved it, loved the scratch board addon hardware, loved the complimentary "makey makey" project, and the cards, and the books and on and on.

incredible project.

[urthor]

If I may ask:

Why former?

[_benj]

Not op but maybe compensation and everything else outside of teaching?

I used to teach computers/math to 8th graders and while teaching is beautiful school politics, terrible benefits, dealing with patents, among others things made the job of teaching incredibly difficult and draining

[jms429]

Burn out. Teaching is a job that is never "done", and expectations from management and parents are constantly set higher and higher. Especially around IT. I lost count of the number of times I asked for help from management and got told "but you are so good at computers".

Tried the startup thing, my product crashed and burned, work for a charity now.