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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Too many pages to read but if you want a perspective from a veteran teacher you can take this at face value.

You want to know why teachers are resentful?
Because for years we’ve watched people who [b]couldn’t survive a single chaotic Monday[/b] in a classroom act like they’re qualified to question our competence, our motives, and our professionalism.

Teachers aren’t resentful—they’re [/b]fed up[b] with a culture that demands educators be superheroes while treating them like disposable background characters.

Let’s cut through the nonsense; Teachers hold together a system that is collapsing under political meddling, chronic underfunding, and the refusal of society to take responsibility for the very problems it dumps at our door. And then people have the gall to ask why we’re not beaming with gratitude.

Here’s why teachers are resentful:

A) Because every time we raise concerns, some armchair critic who hasn’t opened a textbook since high school thinks they know better.
B) Because we’re expected to fix educational inequality, childhood trauma, behavioral crises, family instability, and social dysfunction—but God forbid we mention that these things even exist.
C) Because the people quickest to judge are the ones who do absolutely nothing to help.
D) Because somehow teachers are simultaneously “glorified babysitters” *and* the reason society is falling apart—depending on which excuse is more convenient that day.
E) Because our expertise is dismissed by people who couldn’t explain a fraction of the work we do, but sure know how to complain about it.

If teachers sound resentful, it’s because they’re tired of being blamed for a system they didn’t design, under conditions no reasonable adult would tolerate, while listening to the loudest critics contribute nothing but noise.

And let’s be brutally honest:
If more people understood even a tiny fraction of what teachers actually endure, they wouldn’t be asking why teachers are resentful—they’d be asking how teachers haven’t burned the whole system to the ground out of sheer exhaustion.

So yes, teachers are resentful.
Not because they’re ungrateful or dramatic, but because[b] they’ve spent years being ground down by expectations no other profession on earth would endure[/b].

Does this sound harsh? It’s because the truth is.[/quote]

You’re resentful because you believe this.   Teaching is hard and demanding. It is not the hardest or most demanding work. Constantly telling yourself this is why you feel like such a victim.

— close family member of an award winning teacher who is candid about the struggles teachers have but thinks this kind of talk is self indulgent b*llshit especially after 2020.[/quote]

Stop blaming covid. Sh!tty parents are why 2020 keeps being used as an excuse. It's not 2020. It's the sh!t entitled parents didn't do in 2019. And 2018. And 2017....

Get the sped and crazies out of gen ed, bring back red ink, and fail the kids that can't keep up. Quit complaining because it's the parents that fked up the schools first. I'm not sure exactly when but it might have been some time in the aughts.

If you're complaining about a particularly bad experience with a teacher, (no shade but) it's probably because a more experienced teacher (or two) successively burned out from your neediness.

And from experience as a parent pretty involved with volunteering at a couple of schools, most of the relatively better classes seemed to have gotten first dibs'ed according to seniority. The revolving door of burn outs were the newer teachers burdened with the more difficult classes.[/quote]

I’m not blaming COVID for bad teachers, I’m using it as an explanation for why saying teachers have it worse than anyone else is just patently false. They stayed at home for 3 years while nurses showed up at work and risked their lives. Doctors had unprecedented suicide rates. And teachers are here saying they have the worst treatment *ever* of *anyone*. Get some perspective.[/quote]

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