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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers need to quit whining. Even this thread is about why nobody supposedly acknowledges how overworked teachers are. We get it, you feel stressed out, but so are many other professionals. We've already heard you complain about it 1000 times. Why do you think you're special and get to whine louder than everyone else?[/quote]

I don’t think you can appreciate the stress of teaching unless you’ve done it. Is it the ONLY hard job? Of course not. Are teachers extremely overworked? Yes.

-career changer who has worked in the corporate world. I hard rough weeks in that job, but teaching is considerably more time-consuming and stressful to me.  [/quote]

Fact is that many middling college students who'd rather not get [b]stressed out over grad school [/b]self-select into the teaching profession because they think it's an easier gig with lots of vacation time. And then those people get all upset when they realize that teaching is just as hard as many other jobs. So it's not the work per se but the false expectations about teaching that's causing all the whining. [/quote]

My friend in college was like that.[/quote]

Well I agree I was stressed about paying for medical school and am now a teacher. I got a full ride for undergrad and living at home with my parents was not an option for me after 18.  I worked 35 hours a week, had a full ride and put myself through school.  I wanted to be a pediatrician, but didn't want to take on the debt load involved and so I became a teacher.  Over time, I figured identifying ear infection after ear infection after strep throat after ear infection while not earning that much (in the beginning) and having student debt made teaching look better and more fulfilling.  Plus I really like kids and I wanted to see them when they were healthy not only sick.

I don't think that means I should end up taking crap from people about my job.  I still think I am worth of respect.  I could have gone to med school and done well.  I could have been an engineer, but I chose teaching.  The working conditions are very hard and there is a layer of patriarchy in our society that makes people further denigrate teachers.

Right now things are particularly bad in education. As people are looking to rebuild relationships and reenter society after COVID, I think they are understandably upset that our social fabric was torn apart with COVID.  People are looking for something to help mend and heal the tear.  They really want teachers to be the ones to start the process since we are an archetype for all women everywhere and we work with children and we have always pulled together "for the children." 
The problem is we are so very tired also that we aren't willing right now to soothe all the worries away and take in all the behaviors from parents and kids we are dealing with right now.  We are trying but we are tired too, just like all caring professions. During times of stress, things that are fragile tend to break. School systems have always relied on teachers to cover up their mistakes from buying too many supplies, to being the face of the system to parents. We are tired of doing this.  
Carry on with your "you caused this" rants, but know that root of what you are doing comes from a place of misogyny and patriarchy (Cue defensive, angry posts now)

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