However, an enthusiastic teacher who cares about the students can overcome this attitude. If you love math and have the ability to make that love contagious, I think you will do just fine and find many rewards in teaching. I think you'll find that the kids are a lot easier to teach than the adults you have dealt with. If you enjoy math and can make it fun - then they will enjoy it too. You just have to deal with the stituations as the arise.
Kids always get a bad rap - but most are good.
Depending on the school, if most seem well behaved then most are. My Math Teacher gave out this assignment to where we had to find some lyteral word problem that has a little bit of algebra use in it and takes 10 minutes to explain. If you are not know what to expect ask another teacher at the school. An uninformed choice is no choice at all. I was thinking that I couldnt handle the discipline issues but with some guidelines on adolescent behaviour teaching has become enjoyable.