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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regarding the "consider your audience" comment, this is my general note of guidance for teachers posting to this website or any other parenting website:

There is a tendency to assume all parents on DCUM are wealthy. We are not.

MANY parents make less than the teachers at their kids' school. My spouse and I included. We are involved, dedicated parents, and also we are extremely middle class and our kid has never had a primary teacher who didn't out-earn us both.

We've also never had a bad teacher! They've been wonderful. I believe they are with the pay they get.

But I quickly weary of the argument that all parents are terrible and entitled and all teachers are underpaid because I'm a college graduate who makes 80k a year in a job that is not easy (social work). I am not the enemy. I really hate when I see teachers just trashing parents and criticizing everything we do and treating us all like a hyper-privileged monolith out to get them. We aren't. Some of us are a whole lot more like you than you seem to understand.[/quote]

Most teachers on this site are complaining about workload and administration, not parents. Sure, I see the occasional teacher lashing out after a parent insults the profession. But overall? It’s workload and admin.

We don’t think you’re the enemy. We DO think we are overworked and under-appreciated. Saying that takes nothing from you; it doesn’t mean that you aren’t ALSO overworked and under-appreciated.

But on this site, the second a teacher mentions something frustrating about the profession, it is met with the usual comments: “you get paid summers” (we don’t) or “you get off at 3pm” (just to take 3 hours of work home).

We do understand other professions have similar grievances. But here’s one place teaching differs: those professions are ALLOWED to have grievances. We are not.

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