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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People don’t acknowledge how overworked teachers are because they don’t acknowledge how overworked everyone is. It’s not unique to teachers. I think teachers actually get slightly more recognition for their hard work than other jobs. Maybe not as much as they deserve, but I mean, who outside of high paid professionals like doctors and lawyers gets recognized as much as they should. Do trash collectors get recognized enough? We’d all be totally screwed without them, their jobs are hard labor and very few people want to do it, and when is the last you took a moment to appreciate it? Like never.

I think teachers on DCUM see the people posting about their huge incomes and fancy vacations and vacation homes and they think “look at these parents with everything who don’t appreciate how hard I work?” But most parents of public school kids work, and most of us work in jobs where we are underappreciated and overworked. So it’s just weird to phrase this as though teachers are unique in this regard. The very people you are asking to recognize your hard work are probably rarely recognized for their hard work. That’s the culture we live in.

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If everything’s changed such that everyone is working this hard, there’s a good chance a large number of kids are being emotionally neglected at school. Then come home to quickly eat, do work and bed. That would explain the increased need for SEL. Everyone from the trash collector’s kid to the teacher’s kid. This is why maybe European children are different. When adults live in a more reasonable world, they can nurture the children better.[/quote]

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