RANT: Teachers, why are you so whiny?

[Anonymous]

Totally agree, OP. I do think teacher's jobs have gotten harder in certain grades because of all the testing mandates, and all the common core stuff didn't help either.

But teachers in my school walk out 10 minutes after the kids do. They have a free period every day to grade papers, whatever. And once you are a long-term teacher and typically teaching the same subjects, you are just recycling your lesson plans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband's brother and his wife are teachers, make great money, and never complain, because they truly love their jobs. They are getting ready to retire. This is her last year, he retires after next year. Her parents were teachers in our county for 45 years, and loved it. They left lasting positive impressions on their students, and when her father passed away a few years ago, there were so many people who came to pay their respects that they could not fit in the funeral home chapel (which is very large). Some teachers do not have their hearts in their jobs. Some put their whole lives into it. It's their calling. Those are the ones who you want. The others need to go somewhere else, and do something different, because their attitudes definitely affect their ability to teach. But do not lump all teachers into the same category. I have seen some wonderful ones, who truly love what they do.

There will always be a teacher shortage if the criteria for teaching is for it to be a calling that one must put their whole life into. Why can't it be just a job? We don't demand attorneys, engineers, and accountants to treat their jobs as a "calling".

It's a profession.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Amen. No other white collar professional whines like a teacher.

+1000

I agree with this. I am not saying teachers don't have and hard and respectable job, but the way they rant and complain and generally act like they think their job is so much harder than other jobs does NOT do good things to combat the existing "teachers aren't very smart" stereotype.

YES!

Yup. Which is evidenced by a poster that things everyone else gets leisurely long lunches, can come and go to meet the plumber and endless pee breaks.

You can meet the plumber every single day in the summer.

[Anonymous]

I teach Pre-Kindergarten. PRE-KINDERGARTEN. In the past six weeks I've written a 100+ page classroom portfolio for NAEYC accreditation, screened 32 four year olds and wrote a report on the aggregate data, retroactively entered student assessments from fall into our cloud based curriculum program that wasn't available when it was actually fall (because the city didn't pay the company for it in time), entered said assessments for winter into the system, conducted parent-teacher conferences, and written myriad lesson plans.

This is all in addition to teaching, caring for, and just being with 16 four and five year olds 5 days a week for many hours per day. And Monday I have an observation wherein a person unknown to me will come into my classroom for three hours to write down everything I do and say, and then "grade" my performance. I will only get the results in September, when I won't remember anything about what happened during the observation.

I really am about to collapse. Just so, so weary. Friday afternoon I had a dentist appointment and was actually looking forward to it because I could recline in a chair for a little while without doing any work. So please excuse me if I seem a little whiny, a little cranky. Sorry not sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amen. No other white collar professional whines like a teacher.

+1000

I agree with this. I am not saying teachers don't have and hard and respectable job, but the way they rant and complain and generally act like they think their job is so much harder than other jobs does NOT do good things to combat the existing "teachers aren't very smart" stereotype.

YES!

Yup. Which is evidenced by a poster that things everyone else gets leisurely long lunches, can come and go to meet the plumber and endless pee breaks.

You can meet the plumber every single day in the summer.

Yeah teachers! Schedule your plumbing problems for the summer. Geez!

[Anonymous]

Let’s be honest, any degree that you get in 4 years that isn’t a B.S. degree is an easy degree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let’s be honest, any degree that you get in 4 years that isn’t a B.S. degree is an easy degree.

Most of my children's teachers have Master's degrees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach Pre-Kindergarten. PRE-KINDERGARTEN. In the past six weeks I've written a 100+ page classroom portfolio for NAEYC accreditation, screened 32 four year olds and wrote a report on the aggregate data, retroactively entered student assessments from fall into our cloud based curriculum program that wasn't available when it was actually fall (because the city didn't pay the company for it in time), entered said assessments for winter into the system, conducted parent-teacher conferences, and written myriad lesson plans.

This is all in addition to teaching, caring for, and just being with 16 four and five year olds 5 days a week for many hours per day. And Monday I have an observation wherein a person unknown to me will come into my classroom for three hours to write down everything I do and say, and then "grade" my performance. I will only get the results in September, when I won't remember anything about what happened during the observation.

I really am about to collapse. Just so, so weary. Friday afternoon I had a dentist appointment and was actually looking forward to it because I could recline in a chair for a little while without doing any work. So please excuse me if I seem a little whiny, a little cranky. Sorry not sorry.

You are proving everyone's point! Here's the thing. MOST of us who work could come here and write a long exhaustible list of all the things we've done at work over the past month...it would be long and boring and tiring sounding, just like your rant. It's called work for a reason. We just choose not to, because we know it's ridiculously boring to have to listen to someone catalogue every single task they've been paid to do all week - something teachers don't seem to have picked up on, Do you not think other people are expected to complete lots of different difficult and strenuous tasks at work?? It seems like that is honestly how teachers who rant and whine all the time feel...you are coming on here and doing exactly what people in this thread are talking about. As a PP said, it does not make you guys look very intelligent.

[Anonymous]

*exhaustive

[Anonymous]

*exhaustive

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach Pre-Kindergarten. PRE-KINDERGARTEN. In the past six weeks I've written a 100+ page classroom portfolio for NAEYC accreditation, screened 32 four year olds and wrote a report on the aggregate data, retroactively entered student assessments from fall into our cloud based curriculum program that wasn't available when it was actually fall (because the city didn't pay the company for it in time), entered said assessments for winter into the system, conducted parent-teacher conferences, and written myriad lesson plans.

This is all in addition to teaching, caring for, and just being with 16 four and five year olds 5 days a week for many hours per day. And Monday I have an observation wherein a person unknown to me will come into my classroom for three hours to write down everything I do and say, and then "grade" my performance. I will only get the results in September, when I won't remember anything about what happened during the observation.

I really am about to collapse. Just so, so weary. Friday afternoon I had a dentist appointment and was actually looking forward to it because I could recline in a chair for a little while without doing any work. So please excuse me if I seem a little whiny, a little cranky. Sorry not sorry.

This is so ironic. This is LITERALLY what OP is talking about haha

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach Pre-Kindergarten. PRE-KINDERGARTEN. In the past six weeks I've written a 100+ page classroom portfolio for NAEYC accreditation, screened 32 four year olds and wrote a report on the aggregate data, retroactively entered student assessments from fall into our cloud based curriculum program that wasn't available when it was actually fall (because the city didn't pay the company for it in time), entered said assessments for winter into the system, conducted parent-teacher conferences, and written myriad lesson plans.

This is all in addition to teaching, caring for, and just being with 16 four and five year olds 5 days a week for many hours per day. And Monday I have an observation wherein a person unknown to me will come into my classroom for three hours to write down everything I do and say, and then "grade" my performance. I will only get the results in September, when I won't remember anything about what happened during the observation.

I really am about to collapse. Just so, so weary. Friday afternoon I had a dentist appointment and was actually looking forward to it because I could recline in a chair for a little while without doing any work. So please excuse me if I seem a little whiny, a little cranky. Sorry not sorry.

You are proving everyone's point! Here's the thing. MOST of us who work could come here and write a long exhaustible list of all the things we've done at work over the past month...it would be long and boring and tiring sounding, just like your rant. It's called work for a reason. We just choose not to, because we know it's ridiculously boring to have to listen to someone catalogue every single task they've been paid to do all week - something teachers don't seem to have picked up on, Do you not think other people are expected to complete lots of different difficult and strenuous tasks at work?? It seems like that is honestly how teachers who rant and whine all the time feel...you are coming on here and doing exactly what people in this thread are talking about. As a PP said, it does not make you guys look very intelligent.

You are MISSING the point. All the paperwork and desk time is IN ADDITION to PP being in a classroom with small children doing his/ her primary job (teaching) for I imagine over 30 hours a week. So that's almost a full work week right there. Do you know how exhausting it is body and soul to do just that? And then pile on all the other stuff, which I imagine is being done at home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach Pre-Kindergarten. PRE-KINDERGARTEN. In the past six weeks I've written a 100+ page classroom portfolio for NAEYC accreditation, screened 32 four year olds and wrote a report on the aggregate data, retroactively entered student assessments from fall into our cloud based curriculum program that wasn't available when it was actually fall (because the city didn't pay the company for it in time), entered said assessments for winter into the system, conducted parent-teacher conferences, and written myriad lesson plans.

This is all in addition to teaching, caring for, and just being with 16 four and five year olds 5 days a week for many hours per day. And Monday I have an observation wherein a person unknown to me will come into my classroom for three hours to write down everything I do and say, and then "grade" my performance. I will only get the results in September, when I won't remember anything about what happened during the observation.

I really am about to collapse. Just so, so weary. Friday afternoon I had a dentist appointment and was actually looking forward to it because I could recline in a chair for a little while without doing any work. So please excuse me if I seem a little whiny, a little cranky. Sorry not sorry.

This is so ironic. This is LITERALLY what OP is talking about haha

Missing the point. The PP is supposed to be with small children all day and then do all that other stuff? How would you like to do a desk job in addition to taking care of 16 small children all day long?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach Pre-Kindergarten. PRE-KINDERGARTEN. In the past six weeks I've written a 100+ page classroom portfolio for NAEYC accreditation, screened 32 four year olds and wrote a report on the aggregate data, retroactively entered student assessments from fall into our cloud based curriculum program that wasn't available when it was actually fall (because the city didn't pay the company for it in time), entered said assessments for winter into the system, conducted parent-teacher conferences, and written myriad lesson plans.

This is all in addition to teaching, caring for, and just being with 16 four and five year olds 5 days a week for many hours per day. And Monday I have an observation wherein a person unknown to me will come into my classroom for three hours to write down everything I do and say, and then "grade" my performance. I will only get the results in September, when I won't remember anything about what happened during the observation.

I really am about to collapse. Just so, so weary. Friday afternoon I had a dentist appointment and was actually looking forward to it because I could recline in a chair for a little while without doing any work. So please excuse me if I seem a little whiny, a little cranky. Sorry not sorry.

You are proving everyone's point! Here's the thing. MOST of us who work could come here and write a long exhaustible list of all the things we've done at work over the past month...it would be long and boring and tiring sounding, just like your rant. It's called work for a reason. We just choose not to, because we know it's ridiculously boring to have to listen to someone catalogue every single task they've been paid to do all week - something teachers don't seem to have picked up on, Do you not think other people are expected to complete lots of different difficult and strenuous tasks at work?? It seems like that is honestly how teachers who rant and whine all the time feel...you are coming on here and doing exactly what people in this thread are talking about. As a PP said, it does not make you guys look very intelligent.

You are MISSING the point. All the paperwork and desk time is IN ADDITION to PP being in a classroom with small children doing his/ her primary job (teaching) for I imagine over 30 hours a week. So that's almost a full work week right there. Do you know how exhausting it is body and soul to do just that? And then pile on all the other stuff, which I imagine is being done at home?

+100. I don't know why we don't just let teachers teach. A 100 page portfolio? WTH?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach Pre-Kindergarten. PRE-KINDERGARTEN. In the past six weeks I've written a 100+ page classroom portfolio for NAEYC accreditation, screened 32 four year olds and wrote a report on the aggregate data, retroactively entered student assessments from fall into our cloud based curriculum program that wasn't available when it was actually fall (because the city didn't pay the company for it in time), entered said assessments for winter into the system, conducted parent-teacher conferences, and written myriad lesson plans.

This is all in addition to teaching, caring for, and just being with 16 four and five year olds 5 days a week for many hours per day. And Monday I have an observation wherein a person unknown to me will come into my classroom for three hours to write down everything I do and say, and then "grade" my performance. I will only get the results in September, when I won't remember anything about what happened during the observation.

I really am about to collapse. Just so, so weary. Friday afternoon I had a dentist appointment and was actually looking forward to it because I could recline in a chair for a little while without doing any work. So please excuse me if I seem a little whiny, a little cranky. Sorry not sorry.

You are proving everyone's point! Here's the thing. MOST of us who work could come here and write a long exhaustible list of all the things we've done at work over the past month...it would be long and boring and tiring sounding, just like your rant. It's called work for a reason. We just choose not to, because we know it's ridiculously boring to have to listen to someone catalogue every single task they've been paid to do all week - something teachers don't seem to have picked up on, Do you not think other people are expected to complete lots of different difficult and strenuous tasks at work?? It seems like that is honestly how teachers who rant and whine all the time feel...you are coming on here and doing exactly what people in this thread are talking about. As a PP said, it does not make you guys look very intelligent.

You are MISSING the point. All the paperwork and desk time is IN ADDITION to PP being in a classroom with small children doing his/ her primary job (teaching) for I imagine over 30 hours a week. So that's almost a full work week right there. Do you know how exhausting it is body and soul to do just that? And then pile on all the other stuff, which I imagine is being done at home?

+100. I don't know why we don't just let teachers teach. A 100 page portfolio? WTH?

Amen. And now they want teachers to be held responsible for children's lives by taking down crazed gunmen who burst into schools with machine guns. What next?