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Underestimated: educators can not everyone!


Photo: Screenshot / Adriana Sofia

Educator can anyone? These women are against the underestimation of their profession!

All too often, educators and their profession are underestimated. These girls are fighting a video against injustice. Because: Not everyone can educate!

It is a recurring comparison. You bring your car to the garage, trust the advice of the mechatronics engineer, and pay a lot of money to make the wheeled pedestal healthy again. The repair of the expert is not doubted - he will already know what he is doing, he has finally learned the profession.

Parents bring their child to kindergarten. They entrust their own flesh and blood to another person. Nevertheless, my mothers and fathers always know best how to raise their child. That the profession of the educator means hard work is often overlooked. Why is more questioned about educators than on auto-mechatronics? Both parties have learned their work in a professional education.

Adriana, Lisa, Shelley and Natalie have almost completed their education as educators. They fight against the underestimation and above all underpayment of their profession. The video of the students goes around the world.

The four Berliners are dealing with a similar comparison as the workshop-kindergarten scenario. "Why do we pay people who we entrust to our children much less money than those to whom we entrust our money?" They ask in the description of their video. The young women have hit a sore spot with their request. Over two million people have already watched their video.

Because the criticism seems justified. Your own child should be worth more to every person than anything else in life. Nevertheless, the profession as an educator is both underestimated and underpaid. Because the Erzieherdasein is more than reading aloud and playing. Educators do hard work day after day.

Being an educator means being strong. It means treating a stranger like his own. It means dealing with difficult destinies. It means removing feces, urine and vomit. With provocative words, the young women point out in the video what hardly a human sees when thinking of the profession of the educator .

Do not the people who love their own children day after day make the most money? But the profession is still considered underpaid. Nevertheless, it is not predominantly a higher salary that Adriana, Lisa, Shelley and Natalie are fighting for. Much more they want to open the eyes of people, what they do as an educator daily.

Just how exhausting parenting can be was recently shown in the photo project Mom Life.

Why do we pay people who trust our children much less money than those we spend our money on?

Posted by Adriana Sofia on Saturday, March 28, 2015
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