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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers are people and people complain.

There are very few other options if you want to work 200 days per year and be paid a professional salary.

Right now I think we’re still seeing a COVID correction. Early weeks oF COVID was everyone saying teachers were heroes and shaming parents for wanting school. Teachers who absorber that attitude are finding it hard right now. [/quote]

I didn’t go into this profession thinking I only wanted to work 200 days a year. That’s a TERRIBLE reason to pick education, especially since you’ll work weekends and summer anyway… simply to prepare for those 200 days.

We need teachers who want to teach for the sake of teaching, not because they erroneously think it’s an easy field with tons of free time. [/quote]

That’s good for you? Plenty of teachers go into the field because it’s a profession that will let them spend summers with their kids. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s also why teachers complain more than you would expect: there isn’t another job out there for most teachers that will give them that schedule. [/quote]

As someone who has been in the profession for over 25 years, I don’t see it as the family-friendly field that many think it is.

My afternoons are spent running clubs while I pay for childcare for my own kids. My nights are spent grading. My weekends are spent grading. My summers are spent prepping for the next year, attending recertification courses, and attending conferences/trainings to keep my extra credentials. My kids are growing up watching me work around the clock.

And yet I hear how family-friendly this field is, which I’ve never experienced.

I’m sure there are teachers somewhere with better schedules and fewer responsibilities, but I don’t personally know any.

[b]And I’ll do the work without complaint [/b]because I signed up for it. I just wish others didn’t assume I have it so, so easy.[/quote]

What would you call the three proceeding paragraphs and the final sentence….[/quote]

That isn’t complaining.

I guess when you deal with children all day you know what complaining actually sounds like.

Somebody expressing an opinion and/or explaining a situation isn’t a complaint to me.

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You definitely sound like you are complaining - which is your right - and seem to think other jobs don't require families to use child care. You also sound kind of miserable. Are you sure this is how you want your kids to remember you?[/quote]

Nowhere did I compare my job to other jobs. Nowhere. OF COURSE other jobs need childcare. But someone upthread said teachers don't. Guess what? We do.

Yes, it's absolutely acceptable for me to write about my experiences as a teacher on a thread about teaching. This site is notorious for its treatment of teachers and it is filled with tons of misconceptions (teachers have it easy, teachers are overpaid, teachers aren't bright, etc.). It's also notorious for shutting down teachers' voices by saying we are "complaining" any time we simply correct one of these misconceptions.

That's not going to keep me from doing it. 
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I don't understand why some miserable parents have to project their feelings all the time. I read what you wrote and all you did was list facts, not complain about them. The fact that this triggers some (most?) parents is the reason why education sucks for normal students nowadays. These parents push this same entitled energy into their kids with the expectation that teachers are going to parent their kids for them, with a skip in their step and a smile.

On another note, I'll stick with my original thesis that your work as a teacher would be so much easier if they moved kids not at grade level to their own class and allowed kids in general to be failed if they can't do the normal work. I find it hard to believe that in "honors" high school English classes, there's an equal option to review a comic book or a book with pictures like Charlotte's Web. Or to make a poster or PowerPoint instead of writing an actual fully developed research paper in history or psych. Yes, these were actual choices with equal grade value.[/quote]

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