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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I left teaching and it wasn't about the pay it was about the bratty over coddled children. Parents today just don't know what their parenting style is doing to these kids with no accountability and leaving a teacher feeling like they will get into trouble if they dare challenge anything about their perfect little one. I don't even want to be involved in upper education because I'll just have to deal with the same entitlement mentality as these kids get older.  Working in sales now at the encouragement if some of my other educator friends and am okay with it. Miss teaching but can't do it in thus current age if parenting. [/quote]

I left teaching too. However, I found the kids charming and fun. They were bratty sometimes, but they were also teenagers, so mostly they were hilarious. I found the adults intolerable. The parents were irritating, but at least I could understand that they wanted the best for their kids. I found the impossible demands of the county and the admins to be the intolerable part. Oh yes, for sure you can teach remedial algebra to a class of 47 students while having too few desks and no supplies....

I will add that the more we treated the students like delinquents and animals, the more they acted like delinquents and animals. At one point the admins locked the bathrooms and left only one open because "students were vandalizing them". Imagine a school of 2,000 and only 5 toilets for the ladies. Of course the students started to act out.... In so many matters the feelings of the students were never considered. [/quote]

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