Teachers Resigning Like Crazy?

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You teachers are sick if you're “not allowed” to use a toilet when you need to.

Not only are your administrators and school board doing nothing about this serious issue, but what about your good-for-nothing teachers’ union? What are they doing about this?

Buck up and demand some minimal human rights like going pee in a bathroom. Having to wear depends to pee is the most asinine thing I’ve heard.

Simple Solution:
You text the front office to have someone come sit with your students (asap) for a few minutes. What’s the big deal?

Spoken like someone who has no clue.

The main office staff isn’t sitting around twiddling thumbs. Everyone is busy. All the time. There aren’t enough adults in a school, and that’s a problem that will only get worse as teachers continue to quit.

It is so, so easy to look into the teaching world and find solutions. It’s a lot harder to actually be IN it. A teacher is responsible for far too much at every given moment of the day. We really are expected to do it all… all the time. And many of us do.

Many of us are also sick of it. I long for my old office job in college. I could eat when I wanted, pee when I wanted, sit alone if I wanted privacy, and I could actually get work done at work.

Hahahahhaha text the main office. Good lord, these people really do think they have all the answers don’t they?

DCUM parents offering up all these BS “solutions” and opinions should have to come sub for a week, not that they’d make it past day 1.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are an elementary school teacher, you can pee right before the kids come in (8:25), again at specials times or lunch (anywhere from mid morning to noon), again at recess (a colleague could watch your class outside easily) and again at dismissal (3:30 ish). It’s really not that hard!

I teach middle school, but this is not close to what I experience as a middle school teacher.

Kids are in my classroom at 7:10, and my lunch doesn't begin until 12:15 each day. My planning blocks are both in the afternoon, so I can't go to the restroom during a planning block. It might seem that I can go between classes, but that is not possible because the closest faculty restroom is not very close to my classroom, and there are always at least two other teachers in line (it is a single toilet), so there is not time to go before I have to be back in my classroom.

Five hours is a long time to go without using the restroom, especially for a peri-menopausal woman who also has fibroids. I now wear Thinx underwear every day to school, but that's not even always enough, so I've had some embarrassing situations occur.

While we do now have recess in middle school, but I am assigned to a post where I am alone, so I can't even go to the toilet during recess because there is no one else there to watch the children in that location.

This is inhuman. Which county?

This can’t be Fairfax County because middle school starts at 7:30 am for the kids. They don’t even allow kids to come into the building until 7:10 am. The doors are locked until exactly 7:10 am. This teacher is lying. And why is she posting on an FCPS board?

This is not a lie. The post says "kids are in my classroom at 7:10," not "school begins at 7:10." I know at my school, we are required to be in our classrooms at 7:10 because students get off the bus and go straight to their first class. So if the doors open at 7:10, there could be students in the room at 7:11. Saying "kids are in my classroom at 7:10" is not a lie. 7:10, 7:11, it's the same thing.

DP- At my MS, they often let the kids in a minute or two before 7:10 and some kids race to classrooms, so they really are in class at 7:10. The busses let kids off about 7:08 or 7:09, they all congregate at a door (which IMHO is a huge safety concern as the only people watching are the bus drivers from their busses), and the busses are exiting the bus loop at exactly 7:10.

As a staff, we have to be outside our doors/hall duty post by 7:10. Many of our recess location posts are outside on fields pretty far from the building. If you have last lunch and last period planning, it is very believable that your first opportunity to pee at my school is 12:15. If you really have to go, you hope that someone on planning can be flagged down in the hallway.

[Anonymous]

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You teachers are sick if you're “not allowed” to use a toilet when you need to.

Not only are your administrators and school board doing nothing about this serious issue, but what about your good-for-nothing teachers’ union? What are they doing about this?

Buck up and demand some minimal human rights like going pee in a bathroom. Having to wear depends to pee is the most asinine thing I’ve heard.

Simple Solution:
You text the front office to have someone come sit with your students (asap) for a few minutes. What’s the big deal?

Spoken like someone who has no clue.

The main office staff isn’t sitting around twiddling thumbs. Everyone is busy. All the time. There aren’t enough adults in a school, and that’s a problem that will only get worse as teachers continue to quit.

It is so, so easy to look into the teaching world and find solutions. It’s a lot harder to actually be IN it. A teacher is responsible for far too much at every given moment of the day. We really are expected to do it all… all the time. And many of us do.

Many of us are also sick of it. I long for my old office job in college. I could eat when I wanted, pee when I wanted, sit alone if I wanted privacy, and I could actually get work done at work.

Am I allowed to come volunteer at your school? I’d be more than happy to sit with your students while you dash out to pee. You all can have my cell number to text me with your room number, to use as needed. Or the school can keep a designated cell phone this this one purpose. I don’t mind whatever vetting process might be needed. Volunteers can sign up for half-day shifts or whatever, and have a weekly schedule with stand-ins as needed.
You can have solutions or you can keep complaining about having to wear Depends to avoid embarrassing accidents when you can’t hold it any longer.
It’s up to you and your colleagues.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you are an elementary school teacher, you can pee right before the kids come in (8:25), again at specials times or lunch (anywhere from mid morning to noon), again at recess (a colleague could watch your class outside easily) and again at dismissal (3:30 ish). It’s really not that hard!

I teach middle school, but this is not close to what I experience as a middle school teacher.

Kids are in my classroom at 7:10, and my lunch doesn't begin until 12:15 each day. My planning blocks are both in the afternoon, so I can't go to the restroom during a planning block. It might seem that I can go between classes, but that is not possible because the closest faculty restroom is not very close to my classroom, and there are always at least two other teachers in line (it is a single toilet), so there is not time to go before I have to be back in my classroom.

Five hours is a long time to go without using the restroom, especially for a peri-menopausal woman who also has fibroids. I now wear Thinx underwear every day to school, but that's not even always enough, so I've had some embarrassing situations occur.

While we do now have recess in middle school, but I am assigned to a post where I am alone, so I can't even go to the toilet during recess because there is no one else there to watch the children in that location.

This is inhuman. Which county?

This can’t be Fairfax County because middle school starts at 7:30 am for the kids. They don’t even allow kids to come into the building until 7:10 am. The doors are locked until exactly 7:10 am. This teacher is lying. And why is she posting on an FCPS board?

The teacher is an FCPS teacher bc she said we now have recess. FCPS implemented recess this year. This is the perfect example of teachers exaggerating. That’s why parents don’t believe them anymore. There are no kids in classrooms at 7:10 am in FCPS period. Stop lying. Doors don’t even open until 7:10 am!!!

Also, in addition to a planning period, the teachers have study hall time.

My HS has no “study hall” but keep on spreading those falsehoods.

It’s called falcon or charger or whatever mascot time. That indeed is a study hall time. Kids can work on assignments or go see other teachers for help.

Yes and teachers are expected to be in their rooms with students at this time

[Anonymous]

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You teachers are sick if you're “not allowed” to use a toilet when you need to.

Not only are your administrators and school board doing nothing about this serious issue, but what about your good-for-nothing teachers’ union? What are they doing about this?

Buck up and demand some minimal human rights like going pee in a bathroom. Having to wear depends to pee is the most asinine thing I’ve heard.

Simple Solution:
You text the front office to have someone come sit with your students (asap) for a few minutes. What’s the big deal?

Spoken like someone who has no clue.

The main office staff isn’t sitting around twiddling thumbs. Everyone is busy. All the time. There aren’t enough adults in a school, and that’s a problem that will only get worse as teachers continue to quit.

It is so, so easy to look into the teaching world and find solutions. It’s a lot harder to actually be IN it. A teacher is responsible for far too much at every given moment of the day. We really are expected to do it all… all the time. And many of us do.

Many of us are also sick of it. I long for my old office job in college. I could eat when I wanted, pee when I wanted, sit alone if I wanted privacy, and I could actually get work done at work.

Am I allowed to come volunteer at your school? I’d be more than happy to sit with your students while you dash out to pee. You all can have my cell number to text me with your room number, to use as needed. Or the school can keep a designated cell phone this this one purpose. I don’t mind whatever vetting process might be needed. Volunteers can sign up for half-day shifts or whatever, and have a weekly schedule with stand-ins as needed.
You can have solutions or you can keep complaining about having to wear Depends to avoid embarrassing accidents when you can’t hold it any longer.
It’s up to you and your colleagues.

That is a really kind gesture, but it just shows how little you truly know about the operation and safety side of a school. Here are a few concerns for you to think through:
Who is paying for the volunteers to get vetted, fingerprinted etc to be in contact with multiple classrooms of students?
Who else is going to volunteer and how will teachers know there is relief that day vs other days when no one shows up?
Will you be given keys to the school in case there is a lock down/school shooting while you are responsible for the classroom?
Why would a teacher give you their private cell number? Who pays for the separate cell line you need?
What liability do you have if some kids start a fight while you are in the class?

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Anonymous wrote:For me it’s not about the inability to pee on my schedule. It’s about how my district and my administration tells the teachers that the reason we have a racial achievement gap is our implicit biases. That if we just tried harder then our students would all have exactly the same outcomes regardless of their hugely different home experiences and innate abilities.

This would piss me off too, but the fact that you’re attributing at least part of the racial achievement gap to these students’ innate abilities suggests that you do have a lot of implicit bias. You’re making it sound like you believe that different races have different innate abilities.

I do think that regardless of your biases, you and other teachers aren’t responsible for fixing the racial achievement gap. That’s ridiculous. But just beware that the language you use might make the admin think that they are onto something.

I’m that pp and here’s the reality in my school community. The white kids are primarily the children of upper middle class college-educated professionals. The Hispanic kids are primarily the children of non-college or high school educated blue collar workers, construction, housecleaning, etc. This is the society we live in right now in my area. People who drop out of high school generally have lesser innate academic abilities than people who graduate from college.

Okay but if you don’t want to sound biased need to avoid saying the *racial* achievement gap has something to do with any kind of innate ability. If you say it does, then you’re saying that some races are just born with more innate abilities, academic or otherwise. Im sure you recognize that this line of thinking is racist. You have to recognize that the reason that lower class workers are disproportionately POC is because of racist societal structures and not because there were born with fewer abilities than white people.

I didn't get PP said race was the reason for the achievement gap but, rather, the economic situation of the parents. This has a disparate effect or is more visible in various races. But PP wasn't saying white = smart, other races = not.

Right I do get what she’s trying to say, but everybody should honestly avoid suggesting the radial achievement gap has something to do with innate abilities. At a minimum, it’s not a necessary argument because in PP’s case it’s not the teachers who are causing the gap, implicit bias or no.

Again, I didn't read it as "innate" abilities but rather what was being seen in high/low economic groups (and race groups as a proxy for SES). Lower SES has less advantages available (tutoring, having to work, having to watch siblings) that impact school (I was that lower SES growing up, but white). The argument some make is that the teachers don't cause the gap - which I agree- but should do more to close that gap (I'm not sure where I come out on that given the variety of challenges in the schools).

Ok, I’m the one who wrote “innate” and it has derailed the conversation a little bit. I don’t mean biologically or racially innate. But I mean that their aptitude is affected by a ton of things that we at school have absolutely no control over, and then we are evaluated based on whether we have magically overcome all of that, and when we have not we are told once more that we have implicit biases and that is the reason for the persistent gap.

I was more sympathetic until your last clause, because I think that is likely a glib misrepresentation. You likely do have a ton of biases that impact how you interact with students that shape your expectations, strategies etc. We all do. Someone can evaluate you and reasonably ask you to work on that without saying that you are going to magically overcome all society's inequities by doing so. You sound defensive on that point to me.

This is not an individual evaluation I’m talking about. This is a staff meeting — actually about once a quarter — where we all look at all the student test score data and then we look at graphs breaking it down by race, and when we inevitably notice that there is a racial disparity, our meeting transitions into a professional development on implicit bias and antiracism. I’ve had three of these staff meetings so far this year.

I'm the PP who called out the innate comment and I do want to reiterate that I think you have an absolutely valid point. The cause of the racial achievement gap is multi-faceted and a lot of people are pointing to schools as the solution because we already have that infrastructure, but if a child is doing poorly because of food insecurity, generational trauma, poverty, housing insecurity, etc., no amount of implicit bias training can address those issues. Those are societal issues that teachers cannot fix. To ignore those issues when examining the racial achievement gap and instead put the microscope on a teacher's implicit bias really misses the mark and doesn't do anyone any good. Plus, teachers are spread too thin to meaningfully help any child and that exacerbates the achievement gap because the privileged kids will get outside help and resources to make up the difference.

The implicit bias causes disparity in discipline. Two kids one black one white commit the same minor offense. The white gets a pass the black kid gets sent to the principles office. The offense running in the hallway. Which one is missing valuable lesson time, which one comes to be labeled a problem kid so ends up under a microscope which means they are then constantly getting called out for any minor transgression puffed up and real or imagined.

Which one keeps missing out on valuable lessons. Which one can’t get the teacher referrals for advanced classes. Which one gets discouraged and begins to believe they are bad, not smart, etc

Meanwhile which one grows up to be a school shooter and everyone cries what but Jackson was such a good kid he never got into trouble.

Implicit bias hurts more than just the black, brown and economically disadvantaged.

PP here.

Yes, but dumping the responsibility for the racial achievement gap on teachers hurts those kids too. Even the most racially unbiased Black teacher cannot close the achievement gap on her own. Teachers need support with discipline, they need specialists to give one on one help to kids who are struggling, and they need more special education teachers who can give sped kids (which includes English language learners) support. Right now they expect teachers to do a ton of these things and when they can’t, they blame it on implicit bias. That is so messed up.

And there are a lot of other things you can do to control for implicit bias. You can have have teachers grade assignments without knowing the kids’ names (maybe having a teacher who doesn’t know the kids assigning the grades), you can make disciplinary actions by giving a teacher or administrator who didn’t know about the infraction a written list of objective facts, etc. Implicit bias is real and the impacts are serious, but it’s only one part of the problem and implicit bias training can only go so far.

They find ways to blame teachers for the achievement gap because unfortunately, they see teachers as the only pawns that they can control. So whether you think it’s fair or not, that’s why it is done. My colleagues and I were told of this “tactic” multiple times directly to our face.

They cannot control anything else - they can’t control the kids, and they can’t control the parents. They can’t force the kids or the parents to change or to do anything. The only people that they can control are the teachers. This is why everything is manipulated in a way that shifts all the responsibilities AND the blame onto teachers. All the conversations in data meetings and all those school improvement meetings comes down to: What else can teachers be forced to do? What other interventions can teachers give? What other PDs can we force the teachers to take to pretend that they are getting trained on the best and most wonderful technique that will solve everything?

Only the veteran teachers understand this. The new teachers or the people not in education always talk about the home life of the kids, things the children went through, parents who don’t care, etc. None of it matters. You can talk about it to make yourself feel better but at the end of the day, all your “leaders” want to hear are how everything is a teacher’s fault and how teachers can improve their teaching to reach every student. They will tell teachers to do things and try this new teaching technique, because that’s the only thing they can do. They’ll send in more “coaches” and “specialists” to coach these teachers because it looks like they’re doing something.

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Anonymous wrote:Luther Jackson middle school holds kids on the bus until 7:10 then sends them directly to classrooms. Teachers are required to be in their classrooms by 7:10 to receive them.

So no, the teacher is not necessarily exaggerating. It’s one reason I left the school—being there by 7:10 and supervising students at 7:10 are very different. Now I can get 15 minutes of copies/grades/etc done from 7:10-7:25, which is super helpful in allowing me to get my own child on time after school.

Teachers are required to receive students immediately, as soon as the door open at 7:10, at many FCPS middle schools. So it definitely is entirely feasible that in many schools, teachers are supervising students as early as 7:10.

The bottom line is teachers are leaving and with everything going on in schools and the lack of support we are going to see the shortage get worse. Parents can deny it all they want.

Your bosses can deny it all they want. They refuse to address school safety.

And parents refuse to parent so there is that.

[Anonymous]

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You teachers are sick if you're “not allowed” to use a toilet when you need to.

Not only are your administrators and school board doing nothing about this serious issue, but what about your good-for-nothing teachers’ union? What are they doing about this?

Buck up and demand some minimal human rights like going pee in a bathroom. Having to wear depends to pee is the most asinine thing I’ve heard.

Simple Solution:
You text the front office to have someone come sit with your students (asap) for a few minutes. What’s the big deal?

Spoken like someone who has no clue.

The main office staff isn’t sitting around twiddling thumbs. Everyone is busy. All the time. There aren’t enough adults in a school, and that’s a problem that will only get worse as teachers continue to quit.

It is so, so easy to look into the teaching world and find solutions. It’s a lot harder to actually be IN it. A teacher is responsible for far too much at every given moment of the day. We really are expected to do it all… all the time. And many of us do.

Many of us are also sick of it. I long for my old office job in college. I could eat when I wanted, pee when I wanted, sit alone if I wanted privacy, and I could actually get work done at work.

Am I allowed to come volunteer at your school? I’d be more than happy to sit with your students while you dash out to pee. You all can have my cell number to text me with your room number, to use as needed. Or the school can keep a designated cell phone this this one purpose. I don’t mind whatever vetting process might be needed. Volunteers can sign up for half-day shifts or whatever, and have a weekly schedule with stand-ins as needed.
You can have solutions or you can keep complaining about having to wear Depends to avoid embarrassing accidents when you can’t hold it any longer.
It’s up to you and your colleagues.

Give me your number and you can come swing by when I need to pee.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
You teachers are sick if you're “not allowed” to use a toilet when you need to.

Not only are your administrators and school board doing nothing about this serious issue, but what about your good-for-nothing teachers’ union? What are they doing about this?

Buck up and demand some minimal human rights like going pee in a bathroom. Having to wear depends to pee is the most asinine thing I’ve heard.

Simple Solution:
You text the front office to have someone come sit with your students (asap) for a few minutes. What’s the big deal?

Spoken like someone who has no clue.

The main office staff isn’t sitting around twiddling thumbs. Everyone is busy. All the time. There aren’t enough adults in a school, and that’s a problem that will only get worse as teachers continue to quit.

It is so, so easy to look into the teaching world and find solutions. It’s a lot harder to actually be IN it. A teacher is responsible for far too much at every given moment of the day. We really are expected to do it all… all the time. And many of us do.

Many of us are also sick of it. I long for my old office job in college. I could eat when I wanted, pee when I wanted, sit alone if I wanted privacy, and I could actually get work done at work.

I can’t get anyone in the office to come to my room when I can tell a kid is on drugs because I can smell it or their pupils are saucers, you guys think they’re coming so I can pee?? The amount of issues constantly being handled in a building is insane, nobody is free to jaunt down and watch my class as needed . Delusional!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^Another teacher here. And think about how thirsty we get projecting for hours. And when we get dehydrated our students complain that our breath is bad, which is disruptive and distracting. And when we get dehydrated we are more likely to get sick. You all hate it when we take our sick days.

So we try to stay hydrated. But not TOO hydrated.

I love these threads. So many of you have NO idea what happens in schools.

BINGO. So many teachers are sick this year....dehydration, stress, and of course parents who send their very sick kids in to cough on everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:^^Another teacher here. And think about how thirsty we get projecting for hours. And when we get dehydrated our students complain that our breath is bad, which is disruptive and distracting. And when we get dehydrated we are more likely to get sick. You all hate it when we take our sick days.

So we try to stay hydrated. But not TOO hydrated.

I love these threads. So many of you have NO idea what happens in schools.

Because most women are teachers, people assume the job is easy and requires no skill and anyone can just rock up and do it. They view every single thing from the POV of how it affects their 1,2,3 kids with seemingly no awareness there are larger implications and considerations at play when you’re talking about hundreds of kids in a school year per secondary teacher and thousands schoolwide. It’s kind of fascinating but usually just frustrating.

Yup a conversation teachers have every day....your DC is one out of 25 please stop sending us daily emails and "demands" that make it seem like we are your personal nanny/secretary.
Other children exist and need our time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
You teachers are sick if you're “not allowed” to use a toilet when you need to.

Not only are your administrators and school board doing nothing about this serious issue, but what about your good-for-nothing teachers’ union? What are they doing about this?

Buck up and demand some minimal human rights like going pee in a bathroom. Having to wear depends to pee is the most asinine thing I’ve heard.

Simple Solution:
You text the front office to have someone come sit with your students (asap) for a few minutes. What’s the big deal?

Spoken like someone who has no clue.

The main office staff isn’t sitting around twiddling thumbs. Everyone is busy. All the time. There aren’t enough adults in a school, and that’s a problem that will only get worse as teachers continue to quit.

It is so, so easy to look into the teaching world and find solutions. It’s a lot harder to actually be IN it. A teacher is responsible for far too much at every given moment of the day. We really are expected to do it all… all the time. And many of us do.

Many of us are also sick of it. I long for my old office job in college. I could eat when I wanted, pee when I wanted, sit alone if I wanted privacy, and I could actually get work done at work.

I left teaching and got an office job. I actually feel productive during the day. Work gets completed, reviewed, given feedback, sent to clients, etc. A lot of teaching is not rewarding and we just moved tasks from one in-progress pile to another.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
You teachers are sick if you're “not allowed” to use a toilet when you need to.

Not only are your administrators and school board doing nothing about this serious issue, but what about your good-for-nothing teachers’ union? What are they doing about this?

Buck up and demand some minimal human rights like going pee in a bathroom. Having to wear depends to pee is the most asinine thing I’ve heard.

Simple Solution:
You text the front office to have someone come sit with your students (asap) for a few minutes. What’s the big deal?

Spoken like someone who has no clue.

The main office staff isn’t sitting around twiddling thumbs. Everyone is busy. All the time. There aren’t enough adults in a school, and that’s a problem that will only get worse as teachers continue to quit.

It is so, so easy to look into the teaching world and find solutions. It’s a lot harder to actually be IN it. A teacher is responsible for far too much at every given moment of the day. We really are expected to do it all… all the time. And many of us do.

Many of us are also sick of it. I long for my old office job in college. I could eat when I wanted, pee when I wanted, sit alone if I wanted privacy, and I could actually get work done at work.

Am I allowed to come volunteer at your school? I’d be more than happy to sit with your students while you dash out to pee. You all can have my cell number to text me with your room number, to use as needed. Or the school can keep a designated cell phone this this one purpose. I don’t mind whatever vetting process might be needed. Volunteers can sign up for half-day shifts or whatever, and have a weekly schedule with stand-ins as needed.
You can have solutions or you can keep complaining about having to wear Depends to avoid embarrassing accidents when you can’t hold it any longer.
It’s up to you and your colleagues.

It's not up to us so please shut it. This post is not kind you are saying teachers are "complaining again" As are you-DC MUM is one giant parent complaint. So just stop! Your "solution" won't work due to safety concerns.

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Am I allowed to come volunteer at your school? I’d be more than happy to sit with your students while you dash out to pee. You all can have my cell number to text me with your room number, to use as needed. Or the school can keep a designated cell phone this this one purpose. I don’t mind whatever vetting process might be needed. Volunteers can sign up for half-day shifts or whatever, and have a weekly schedule with stand-ins as needed.
You can have solutions or you can keep complaining about having to wear Depends to avoid embarrassing accidents when you can’t hold it any longer.
It’s up to you and your colleagues.

I love how you turned around and made our inability to use the restroom OUR fault.

As the PP said, for you to be legally permitted to supervise a class of students, you need to undergo specific training. Since you are invested in helping to resolve this problem, which I very much appreciate, please call up your local school and ask if you can go through the sub training process and then act as a volunteer to cover classes, since they do not have the funds to pay you for your time. Please report back-- So grateful for your help!

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You teachers are sick if you're “not allowed” to use a toilet when you need to.

Not only are your administrators and school board doing nothing about this serious issue, but what about your good-for-nothing teachers’ union? What are they doing about this?

Buck up and demand some minimal human rights like going pee in a bathroom. Having to wear depends to pee is the most asinine thing I’ve heard.

Simple Solution:
You text the front office to have someone come sit with your students (asap) for a few minutes. What’s the big deal?

Spoken like someone who has no clue.

The main office staff isn’t sitting around twiddling thumbs. Everyone is busy. All the time. There aren’t enough adults in a school, and that’s a problem that will only get worse as teachers continue to quit.

It is so, so easy to look into the teaching world and find solutions. It’s a lot harder to actually be IN it. A teacher is responsible for far too much at every given moment of the day. We really are expected to do it all… all the time. And many of us do.

Many of us are also sick of it. I long for my old office job in college. I could eat when I wanted, pee when I wanted, sit alone if I wanted privacy, and I could actually get work done at work.

I left teaching and got an office job. I actually feel productive during the day. Work gets completed, reviewed, given feedback, sent to clients, etc. A lot of teaching is not rewarding and we just moved tasks from one in-progress pile to another.

Good for you. You are right it's too much. I will be leaving at the end of the year due to out of control behaviors and unnecessary stress. The amount of disrespect in teaching is astounding and comes from many directions. I'm all out of cares.