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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a teacher, I am so incredibly embarrassed for my profession right now. We have spent years trying to be seen as important, essential, professional, up to tackling challenges, etc. Now most of my colleagues are ranting dramatically and nonsensically all over social media while going on beach vacations and taking their kids to sports practices. I will be exiting this profession as soon as I possibly can. The whole show has been disgraceful. [/quote]

I call BS. You are not a teacher[/quote]

This teachers still cares, unlike you.  I call BS on you.  You must not be a very good teacher since you're all burned out and cynical.[/quote]
Now you’re name calling? [/quote]

NP, but how is “burned out and cynical” name calling?  And I am a teacher as well and don’t think the initial PP’s thoughts are so crazy or out there.  Lots of people in lots of professions phone it in.  Teachers are no different.[/quote]

In fact, studies suggest that teachers tend to burn out more than other professions:  https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1999-02578-017

Burnout among teachers was the focal topic of the study reported here, in which a sample of about one thousand teachers is compared with members of other social professions on burnout symptoms and, in an attempt to explain the obtained differences in burnout, on work stressors and social support. Our original sample consisted of 13,555 individuals who were gainfully employed and were between the ages of 18 and 64 yrs. Other social professions included mental health professions, physical health professions, nursing professions, domestic and personal care professions, and managers. Taken together, our results for burnout and other measures of strain support the idea that the teaching job carries more psychological and, to a lesser extent, more physical symptoms than other social professions. [b]The main question receives an affirmative answer: Teachers do burn out more easily than members of other social professions.[/b][/quote]

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