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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I bet your students are miserable in your class too, OP. i’ve I’ve dealt with teachers like you, and it is so frustrating because whether you realize it or not parents and other adults around know perfectly well that you are jaded and don’t give 2 shits. Do yourself and these kids a favor and be creative find yourself something else to do for income. I’ve seen teachers leaving open up their own consulting company or run a tutoring company. Yes, it will require energy and a positive attitude to figure out what will click for you and you might be surprised you might make a heck of a lot more money than what you’re making now but if you don’t take a step, this is the legacy you are leaving. One teacher I know who wasn’t a very good teacher opened up a learning center - she started it part time and it’s wildly successful now, she’s great at marketing. Leave. Do it. [/quote]

I’m going to suggest something different. Instead of telling miserable teachers to leave, let’s make the profession less miserable.

Most teachers are miserable. Walk into classrooms at the end of the day to witness the absolute exhaustion. And when Monday comes, so many teachers are still tired because they worked a lot over the weekend just to catch up.

So you can tell OP to leave, but then you’ll have to tell so many others to leave. And students see how overworked teachers are, and they regularly say they want easier jobs.

So telling teachers to leave will kill education in this country. Why can’t we just accept that this job isn’t sustainable and then make changes to fix it. More planning time. Fewer students. Higher pay, or at least more pay for the dozens of extra duties teachers take on. More support from admin instead of more work from admin.

This isn’t hard to imagine, and if people actually cared, it wouldn’t be hard to put in place. [/quote]

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