Alleged teacher shortage
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Anonymous
I'm assuming that they forgot to consider school shootings. |
Anonymous
I’ve receive therapy for my opinions (free of charge of course) but I wouldn’t risk my live over a child if a shooter broke into my school. Cold? Maybe. Harsh? Undoubtedly. Do I still get to see my own children. No brainer. I repulse the idea of being labeled a “hero” and leaving my biological offsprings without a parent. |
Anonymous
| Maybe they are typing on a cellphone genius. Stay on topic. There are so many troll posters that want to bash teachers. We can't even pay a union to stick up for us. This is why education is doomed to fail. It always turns ugly against the ones working for positive change. The easy fraudsters will the money and rank off our hard work and put us on PAR afterward. |
Anonymous
I'm a young teacher and the things the first poster said started to dawn on me a few weeks ago. The disconnect between the job I thought I was getting into and the job I've gotten into are frankly pretty awful, and I will be getting out whenever I can. I don't think that the higher ups set out to let failing students pass, but I presume there are accreditation and other state or federal-level pressures that put 100% of the burden of having students pass on the school system and therefore on the teachers. We have students coming to us from MS with grades that are unimaginable given their paltry or sometimes total lack of knowledge. We also have students who are about to graduate and are headed to college and aren't even performing at the middle school level in my subject. The common thread is that they don't listen, don't study, don't do homework and don't seek help, except sometimes the last week of the quarter when they want to know "how I can improve my grade" or worse, "what can WE do about my grade", as if it suddenly were my responsibility to get them to pass. Many of these kids are not deprived--they have other priorities, which often include hours and hours of sports outside of school. I guess they know the drill? Imagine being a doctor with a long-term alcoholic patient, who demands that you give them a clean bill of health in spite of their advanced cirrhosis. The parents who are pushing for higher grades to send these students to college are fooling themselves. |
Anonymous
What jobs are these? |
Anonymous
Lmao! It is virtually impossible to get a federal job. They have thousands of applicants for each opening. I hope you are a disabled veteran. |
Anonymous
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Note to aspiring teachers: change your major.
US society has decided that you are dumb, lazy, and have no viable prospects if you decide to leave the profession. Your only recourse is to shut up and put up with whatever duties and conditions your district imposed at the demand of parents. Don’t even think about publicly supporting the union that advocates for you. That would be a sign that you are a leftist thug. |
Anonymous
Teacher Career Coach (Google her). People do get out all the time! I’ve even connected with people who got out of teaching during the pandemic. Teacher Career Coach had a fb group and has a new platform for teachers looking to leave teaching to connect and share. Teacher Career Coach also has a podcast where teachers share stories of leaving to become software engineers and such (yes, many teachers are smart enough to become software engineers and make the six figures salary they’ll never see in teaching). If you haven’t graduated with an Ed degree yet I promise that choosing a different major will be better though! But if you’re already in- you are not truly stuck. I’m hoping to get out but it’s harder with the pandemic. As much as I hate Trump, my professor for my HR class I’m currently taking works in recruiting and HR management and she told us that in fall of 2019 the amount of jobs available was the best it had been in years!! Then the pandemic happened and in fall 2020 it was what it is... As a teacher myself I have been scared by how poorly educated some teachers seem to be, but that is rare. Most are not stupid- they just don’t want a desk job, want to make a difference, and want to work with kids. Some want a schedule that the feel works well with their own kids (although this is debatable as some districts require you working all the time since they greatly lack resources). I’ve thought of going back for nursing since I previously worked in the corporate world and despised 8 hours of sitting on my arse day after day, feeling like I was making no difference in the work I was doing. Nursing likely would have been a better fit for me but I know some nurses and I know they’re is an abundance of nursing grads. Many others who hate office life go back to school for nursing and there’s not enough jobs for new nurses. You can look it up- many can’t find jobs for a year or more after graduation. I kept hearing about the teacher shortage and tried subbing and went for it. Subbing obviously wasn’t a good way to know if it was a good fit because subs don’t deal with parents and all that. But I didn’t know that back then. I wish I did nursing from the getco but I’ll likely return to an office job once the economy is better. Some parents are so sweet and understanding but most make them job insufferable. I’ve worked in customer service positions where the “Karen’s” were less annoying because a lot of parents just don’t get that you’re dealing with more that just their one kid and that you truly care about each student you have. Many parents are such a nightmare to work with.  Some of my nurse friends won’t do pediatrics because they don’t want to have to deal with parents all the time. People get that you care about your own kid(s) A LOT but unless a professional working to help your kid seems like a total heartless jerk doing their job for all the wrong reasons.... then just trust they’re doing what they believe and we’re trained to believe is right.
Rambling and on phone. Yes my writing here makes me look like the moron many of you believe most teachers to be. I’m used to people thinking I’m an idiot because I’m a teacher. Can’t wait to get out, but I’ll keep doing my best for the kids while I’m still in it. |
Anonymous
ITA with this. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
This is so true. My children have been in FCPS for over 10 years and I have watched with dismay the reduction in expectations over the years. The equity police grabbed hold and eliminated homework, reading, science fairs and anything else that required any work to be done from home. Achievement is no longer celebrated and NOT getting into trouble is! We now have black box schools and parents who are interested in knowing how their kids are doing are mostly blocked. Want your kids to read a book (other than what's read TO them at school in ES during school hours), do it yourself! I scrambled to get my 2nd into AAP and was happy with the experience but AAP local level middle school was a joke. Required reading of novels was eliminated! What else is gone? And parents are so happy they don't have to manage anything anymore. If school systems expect nothing, kids will do nothing. We are just lying to kids if we think that telling them all they need to do to be successful is do what's spoon-fed to them during their specific school-day-allotted-time-slot will get them where they need to go. Well, maybe it will now when you look at the changes to TJ admissions. |
Anonymous
I mean there is always the glamour of document review! Partial loan forgiveness might entice quite a few shingle hangers or those slogging it out in document review. |
Anonymous
| As you have no sympathy or understanding of what goes on in the classroom I would guess you are a central office troll paid six figures to spread propaganda on social media or bash teachers in communications like this or you are just a Karen who doesn't mind high schoolers who ace classes by not showing up or demonstrating mastery. Your type is clueless and will only lead to more teachers leaving. Thanks but job. Read a newspaper once in a while if you think we teachers on the front lines are crazy. If you are a principal good luck with calling in army vets without college degrees to be the new teachers. I wonder if they will roll over and infate the grades for you. |
Anonymous
I know several teachers that quit this year after long careers. They were burned out and the level of helicopter parent interference was off the chain. Teaching is toxic. |
Anonymous
+1 |