Full Time Classroom Teachers who are moms-- how do you do it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here: I forgot to mention: don't bother responding if you're goinG to be rude and nasty. This question was for teachers because of the type of work but certainly anyone who has to take work home. Just don't be nasty about it. Geeze!

Too bad but truly galactically stupid questions generate galactically appropriate answers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone want to hear from people that work in the ER for a real tit-for-tat?

Do ER doctors work alone without any backup in a room with 30+ patients for 45 minutes? Then get another batch of 30 patients after a 5 minute "break"? Repeat three more times.

This is weird. Of course ER doctors work without any backup in an ER with 30+ patients. For however many hours their shift is. And new ones come in all of the time. What do you think ER doctors do? Do you really think they take breaks? Or have someone waiting in the wings if things get busy or they have to pee? That's anesthesiologists.

[Anonymous]

Lord have mercy, people. You are ALL hard workers. Teacher or not. I am a teacher, I have young kids, yes it's work. But so is every profession. Just do your best and be OK with it!

[Anonymous]

It's not teacher bashing. It's whiner we bashing. I have no problem with teachers. I love teachers. It's just the people who knew what they were getting into and still complain complain complain and seek constant reassurance
That their work is so much more important than everyone else's.

[Anonymous]

...or so much more difficult.

Without a union and contract to hide behind, most professionals can't simply head home when their boss drops something urgent on their desk at 5pm. Try being a young associate at a law firm, Teacher.

But you'll say, "But lawyers make so much money! More than teachers!"

Not true.

A legal aid lawyer who serves homeless and low income clients makes the same starting salary as most teachers...yet they work 12 months a year and earned a very expensive JD. They also don't receive your Cadillac health benefits. And they don't get annual raises or step increases (because pesky congress keeps cutting funding for legal aid).

See how this works? We could do that for every profession. Bottom line: work is hard. And juggling work and parenting is even more difficult...but everyone figures out what works best for them.

And let's be clear: nobody is anti-teacher. We value and respect them. But nobody likes a whiner...and SOME teachers for whatever reason regularly post about how tough their job is compared to others, and it's aggravating because they don't work year round, they get far more holidays and breaks than other professionals, they receive much better health and retirement benefits than most professionals, and (perhaps most importantly) they chose their profession.