My mom is a middle school teacher and shes considering a career change

Teaching is portrayed as like a slacker job or something, and its not even close to something most skilled college grads would ever consider unless they were planning on it anyways as a labor of love. Its neither valued nor respected by conservative politicians, so its not an attractive career path for students who dont know what they want to do yet.

And part of the science thing is the idea that somehow highly educated americans arent "real" americans. Thats the second biggest okie doke.