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[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:

[b]A) Because every time we raise concerns, some armchair critic who hasn’t opened a textbook since high school thinks they know better.[/b]
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 they’ve spent years being ground down by expectations no other profession on earth would endure.

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

I won't dispute that teaching is a hard job, but the results that teachers have gotten over the last 30 years suggests that the arm chair critics probably do know better. Professionalized education has been a failure, across the board. You can say "we didn't design the system" but that's wrong. The biggest failures of the system (Lucy Calkins, etc.) are coming out of the same education schools that train teachers. If teachers want people to respect their "expertise" they need to demonstrate that that expertise is actually working to educate children, but right now it isn't. You can't constantly fail and then complain that people think they know better than you do.[/quote]

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