Anonymous
03/14/2024 21:44
Subject: Teachers, what is least fav part of your job?
The white supremacy teacher professional development was a very special part of my job. I endeavor to have an open, empathetic mind and employ a multicultural approach of respect with students.
So to have an amoral, lying superintendent shove morality lessons about white supremacist teachers that evidently she was forced to employ was just terribly, terribly special.
So to have an amoral, lying superintendent shove morality lessons about white supremacist teachers that evidently she was forced to employ was just terribly, terribly special.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 21:44
Subject: Teachers, what is least fav part of your job?
To 20:44
The email address is often not checked.
In some cases, the student will have set it up for the parent. Who knows, maybe the student has access to the account and controls which email messages are kept for their caregiver to read. Language barriers too.
The email address is often not checked.
In some cases, the student will have set it up for the parent. Who knows, maybe the student has access to the account and controls which email messages are kept for their caregiver to read. Language barriers too.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 21:42
Subject: Teachers, what is least fav part of your job?
Anonymous wrote:Administration not doing their job.
Plus 1
Anonymous
03/14/2024 21:37
Subject: Teachers, what is least fav part of your job?
Anonymous wrote:What aspect of your job do you find least favorable and how do you try to overcome it? What has worked?
Thank you for asking.
1) Working 65 hours a week (70 hours a week when grades are due) in order to plan, teach, administer, attend multiple meetings, attend trainings, test, grade, substitute teach for colleagues, etc.
2) Enduring gaslighting bullying from an assistant principal.
3) Not being able to obtain services for students who truly need it.
4) Getting 5 hours of sleep per night.
Here is how I overcame it: I quit.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 21:37
Subject: Teachers, what is least fav part of your job?
Anonymous wrote:Phone addiction in teenagers. They are not able to manage their devices for a 45 minute class. And we are left trying to keep the class over-engaging to keep interest. But you can’t compete with endorphins.
Lack of discipline in ALL areas but mostly attendance. 100+ students roaming the halls while we are trying to start class.
Brainless parents who either refuse or don’t know how to discipline their kids. I could go on…
The question was LeAST favorite but hear ya, there's too much to only list one.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 21:31
Subject: Teachers, what is least fav part of your job?
Phone addiction in teenagers. They are not able to manage their devices for a 45 minute class. And we are left trying to keep the class over-engaging to keep interest. But you can’t compete with endorphins.
Lack of discipline in ALL areas but mostly attendance. 100+ students roaming the halls while we are trying to start class.
Brainless parents who either refuse or don’t know how to discipline their kids. I could go on…
Lack of discipline in ALL areas but mostly attendance. 100+ students roaming the halls while we are trying to start class.
Brainless parents who either refuse or don’t know how to discipline their kids. I could go on…
Anonymous
03/14/2024 21:29
Subject: Teachers, what is least fav part of your job?
The testing. OMG. It's endless.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 21:28
Subject: Re:Teachers, what is least fav part of your job?
This is MCPS specific and not necessarily a part of teaching, but not having the option to spread out my pay throughout the summer and beginning of the school year. We don't resume a normal pay schedule until late Sept/Oct and it is rough. I would love to be able to save to cover 3 months of living expenses and emergencies, but that's not happening yet. Working a job just in the summer does not always equate to the same wages.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 21:18
Subject: Re:Teachers, what is least fav part of your job?
Maybe I'll get flamed for this, but grading. 120 students or so (which is low end at the HS level) means thousands of grades each quarter. It takes a long time. There is just not enough time and it is even worse with the constant regrading of items that were submitted well past the due date. And then the "I just submitted this. Will you grade it?" from students. It never ends and it is exhausting.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 21:16
Subject: Teachers, what is least fav part of your job?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DEI BS
+1000
Ok, Smpotatoes. Upvoting yourself is pathetic (so right up your alley)
Ha! I didn’t upvote myself, not sure how you can be so clueless that more than 1 person finds DEI to be a mess and a complete waste of time!
Anonymous
03/14/2024 21:11
Subject: Teachers, what is least fav part of your job?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DEI BS
+1000
Ok, Smpotatoes. Upvoting yourself is pathetic (so right up your alley)
Anonymous
03/14/2024 20:56
Subject: Teachers, what is least fav part of your job?
Anonymous wrote:DEI BS
+1000
tobyflenderson
03/14/2024 20:44
Subject: Re:Teachers, what is least fav part of your job?
Anonymous wrote:The lack of consequences for rule breaking at the high school level in general. Students perpetually arriving late to school and class, or just wandering the halls during classes without any consequences whatsoever (often times just chatting it up with security when they should be in class). Restorative justice, which in reality allows students who hinder the learning process and are sometimes a danger to students and adults to continue to be in school rather than being suspended. High schools are just a mess when it comes to poor behavior and literally no consequences whatsoever.
Yes. All of this.
Student attendance this week has been especially awful (I'm maybe getting 50% per class in my On Level courses). I'll send 40 emails home and will get 0 responses. I understand parents can get overwhelmed with the abundance of school communication, but you'd think something like "your child is failing a course required to graduate" or "I haven't seen your child in two weeks" would be a message that they would respond to.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 20:43
Subject: Teachers, what is least fav part of your job?
Zero discipline starting from the top down. Used to be if you had a student behavior problem you sent them to the VP, they handled it all including contacting parents.
Now they just don’t care. At all. The kids know it too.
Now they just don’t care. At all. The kids know it too.
Anonymous
03/14/2024 20:41
Subject: Teachers, what is least fav part of your job?
Student apathy and the extreme laziness. They don’t want to do anything, get bored after 5 minutes, complain about everything, don’t do the work, don’t participate, then cry when they are failing and ask “why” and have no understanding of the why. Plus, they are so disrespectful. I’m out after this year.