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Reply to "Teachers, does your Principal encourage you to tell your students that you love them?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you “love” the kids, you will be a martyr teacher who spends tons of her own money, doesn’t complain about an unreasonable workload, takes on additional unpaid responsibilities, etc. Same as “our school is a family.” I do genuinely love my job and love kids, but I think this emphasis is unhealthy. [/quote] This is exactly what I'm getting at. I feel there is a current trend to pressure teachers to feel as if they should "love" their students. Not simply care for their well being. This expectation that they should actually love their students is done to guilt them into feeling that they should be spending ungodly hours beyond their contract day on work, because "if they really loved the kids", they wouldn't mind. I should also mention that I have heard teachers at other schools mention this as well, or that their principals frequently remind them that teaching is a "calling", and that none of them chose to go into it for the money. [/quote]
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