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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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Most public employees are encouraged not to complain on social media/the internet in general. Its not only teachers who need to consider their audience.[/quote]

Perhaps the important word is “complain.” I don’t think what teachers often post here are complaints. Acknowledging the challenges of the job is understandable.

There are often threads under “jobs and careers” in which people in other professions post questions/explain their frustrations. I don’t see nearly as many posters interrupting those threads, interjecting and telling other professionals to stop “complaining.” That behavior seems to be reserved primarily for teachers.

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