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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Returning to this thread:

If you read the first 20-odd pages, there are a lot of people saying that indeed teachers do work hard.  The first few posts are about how people DO, in fact, acknowledge how hard teachers work.

There are a couple of posters who did poop on teachers, true.

There were also posters that said, "hey we are all overworked."  (Which is not saying that teachers AREN'T overworked, its' saying other people are overworked as well.)

There are also a couple of teachers who are ridiculously dug in to the narrative that they have the hardest job ever (worse apparently than poop scuba divers).

Oh yeah, there's the "parents suck" teacher as well, who always chimes in to just keep everything positive.

This is just a summary so no one thinks this entire thread is just "teachers have easy jobs."[/quote]

Yet there are plenty of posts that refuse to acknowledge that teaching can be demanding, and the tired “but summers” argument is the usual go-to.

There are staggering misconceptions about teaching throughout this thread. I wouldn’t presume to know what it’s like to be a doctor or a “poop scuba diver,” but it’s clearly okay to assume what teaching is like. We’ve all been in classrooms, after all. We’ve all seen teachers in our daily lives. I guess that makes all of us on this thread clear experts in the education field. Sigh. [/quote]

+1 It's like thinking that owning a car makes you an expert mechanic.[/quote]

But don’t you understand? Having been students in the 80s/90s makes them experts on teachers’ jobs in 2023. Not enough eyeroll emojis in the world.[/quote]

I suspect this is a big part of the problem on this thread. Unless you teach, you have no idea what the job is really like. There’s a good reason teachers are quitting in droves: the pace and the conditions aren’t sustainable. You have to give up all work/life balance to get it all done, and people are increasingly refusing to do that.

The anti-teacher posters on this thread will continue to discredit the fact real problems exist within this profession. Nothing will change their minds, which were likely made up when they were teenagers seeing only a fraction of the work their own teachers performed. [/quote]

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