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Here are a few reasons.[/quote]

3, 5,6 and 13 are the ones that get me contemplating quitting....MS teacher. [/quote]

I am sorry.
For #6, the being labeled as a babysitter- it always seems a bit odd to me that teachers are so offended by this. It's wrong, but is it such a terrible misperception? [/quote]

Yes, it is.[/quote]

Why? It's pretty insulting to child care workers that someone would be so aghast that you are a child care worker (even if I agree you aren't).[/quote]

Because they aren’t. You can be disingenuous and pretend not to understand why, but you aren’t fooling anyone with a brain.[/quote]

NP.  I don’t get teachers position on this eithet.  SOMEONE needs to be caring for children the 7 hours a day they are legally required to be in school.  Who is that person, if not their teachers?  I’m talking about ES school here, especially K-2. Not HS math teachers.  I genuinely don’t see why you would be insulted. Caring for 25 kids with different needs at the same time while teaching them something is hard. There are day I find caring for two kids hard.   And parents put a lot of trust in the people who take care of their children.

So what if not not every part of your job requires a teaching degree (although I would hope you need child development classes to teacher at the ES level). I’m a lawyer, but not every part of my job requires a JD.  In any given day, I’m also a Data Entry Clerk and a Manager and a Social Worker, none of which are strictly legal functions.  And they certainly aren’t taught in law school or tested ion the bar.  Any highly skilled job requires you to wear multiple hats. How can you possibly argue one of those hats for teacher s isn’t child care?

It’s very jarring for parents to have teachers insist their role is teaching and not childcare — as if their job isn’t both. Amd, it’s scary to think that teachers don’t believe they are responsible for the physical and emotional safety of kids during the school days and social emotional learning.  That teachers don’t think it’s their job to provide structure and boundaries and create a safe environment that kids can depend on.  Of course they do— or they should. And teachers insistence that this isn’t their job is contributing to the toxicity in the discourse between parents and teachers.  Because no parent wants to entrust the care of their kid to someone who doesn’t take that childcare role seriously.  I certainly don’t. And I resent that teachers don’t take this seriously.  The 3 Rs are very important. But teachers doing the childcare element well is essential  to kids well being.

In related news, it’s also weird that teachers are so offended by being call public servants.  I’m a Fed.  And I’m really proud that I’m a public servant. Almost 
all feds are. It feels good to have a job about more than a corporation’s bottom line.

So yes, teachers are part childcare worker.   And the only people who don’t view that as very important work are apparently teachers.  Who are apparently too  important to take care of the kids sitting in their classroom all day..SMH. And they

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I am a lawyer who has been subbing when possible at my kids’ school because they cannot find subs. You have no idea. Teachers have such a hard job. It makes my lawyer job sitting at the computer and typing stuff look like okay. If we don’t figure out how to support teachers better, we won’t have any good ones left. Stop calling them childcare workers if they don’t like it. They are professionals who deserve respect. No one would ever call you a data clerk and you know it. [/quote]

Thank you! I’m a teacher who has moved into a hybrid admin role this year (bc school districts are too cheap to hire two positions so they have people like me do admin work at a teacher salary lol). It’s been such a breath of fresh air to have that second half of the day to do data entry, slide presentations, grading, parent contact in SILENCE. I don’t think non teachers could ever understand the balancing of all the “non - teaching” responsibilities of the job (shared well 2 or 3 posts up) while also managing a classroom of 20-25 children. Truly the most exhausting role out there.[/quote]

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