@@snypav MEN need to teach boys. male parents and the male administrators that soak up all the CUSHY school jobs. put the fear of god in them about s ex ua l hara ss me nt of those poor girls.
My first job teaching was at an inner city school. Fourteen teachers quit the first two weeks. I was determined to make it work. After two years, I swore I would never teach again. A few years later, to help an orphan I met in China, I got a job there teaching English. I was the one who got an education. Respect, gifts from parents, a boss with encouraging things to say were all new to me. The problem is in our culture (or lack of it). No one in America thinks anyone else should be able to tell them what to do. We have some distorted idea of what freedom is. Every single teacher has gone into the profession with good intentions. The system wears them out.
Wholeheartedly agree with you. As a matter of fact, I think our concept of "freedom" here in the USA, with its ill-defined boundaries and limits, has shown negative implications for peoples' behavior across political affiliations, generations, social classes, et al. The anonymity afforded folks by social media and the internet has definitely exacerbated this, too. I live in a very large apartment complex, and I have a neighbor, grown-ass 40-something-year-old who drives his Ford F150 down our community streets (where children are frequently seen playing) at like 30-plus miles over the speed limit. He tailgates and aggressively passes other cars driving the speed limit ON THE GROUNDS OF OUR APARTMENT COMPLEX. He's been asked by the leasing manager at our apartment complex to be more courteous of drivers who are just trying to follow the speed limits and obey the rules while on community grounds, to which he replied that he "doesn't give a shit" if his driving makes them and others anxious, because "driving isn't a right" and they should use alternative transportation if they don't like it. He can't even see the irony in the whole "not a right" thing that he says.
I feel bad for teachers. It wasn't always this way. The world has changed so much. People are so rude, entitled, cheap and don't have any class or decorum. What happened America?
You have my condolences, even though I was at the start where kids were starting to act up, I was abide an listened to the teachers (minus 3 bad ones i experienced, who got their just desserts with evidence)- they were instructing and teaching their wisdom and imparting it to me, so I wanted to be polite and learn since they were kind to with no reason to be. My Ex mom dictated- long story about that, severed ties with her and with my lil bro too and he is safe now. Plus now I teach kids culinary and home ec
My father is a retired teacher. He committed himself 100% to be the best that he could be. I remember him falling asleep at the kitchen table while grading homework and creating teaching plans after dinner. And up at 5 a.m. to prepare for the day and a long commute to work. He did a summer Master's Degree course to improve his skills and better support our family. God bless all of you teachers who are struggling with all of our current problems in society and education.
@@liberalismisaids9564it’s not about complaining, unless you’ve been a teacher you have no idea the stress and challenges that go along with it. So don’t mouth off if you’ve never done it.
We have forced teachers to “make bricks without straw” for several years now. Children come to school unprepared to learn, with complete and total disrespect and contempt for teachers. Not to mention children with parents more petulant than their demonic children. Our teachers deserve better.
@@truthhurts5158 That's why all these public school teachers cut off their nose to spite their face, because they would be SO BLESSED if we moved to a private voucher system because then private schools could REJECT unruly students and teachers wouldn't have to deal with those horrible students (whatever remains of the public school system would basically just be for those who refuse to be good students, should just be a trade school to teach them trades). I think they are just afraid of the competition. The reality is if private schools were booming there would be a massive competition for GOOD teachers, but yes bad teachers would get fired, but they SHOULD be. The good teachers like the ones in this video would be raised UP in a private school system, promoted, and have obedient students. When you get something for free, you don't cherish it or respect it. When students get to CHOOSE their school, CHOOSE their study topics, they have been proven in studies to do far better. Because they have a stake in their education. And while schools have started offering electives to high schoolers and middle schoolers, the students still don't get to choose their school which means they get stuck in failing schools and thus feel hopeless and lash out and then it just gets worse. Public schools reward bad teachers and bad students. They are handtied they can't even do anything to stop the disrespect they are talking about. If it was a private school they would threaten expulsion and bring that students' parents in to the school and quickly deal with it. Public schools don't because they get paid per student's daily attendance so they basically turn it into a glorified daycare, fearful that if they crack down on students those students won't show up to school.
My husband retired from being a registered pharmacist and decided to take a teaching job for 9th grade. The pay is low but the worse thing is the disrespect from the students and their parents! 😮😢. Parents need to teach their children to have manners and respect!
They can’t teach manners and respect if they don’t have it themselves. What do you think about this solution, If a child shows they are unruly and won’t change they should be kicked out of school, regardless of the parents situation, forcing the parents to choose between disciplining their child or go without free day care. What do you or your teacher husband think of that? It sounds to harsh but what’s happening is worse.
While all of the things they have cited are indeed major problems, it seems to me that children and parents are held to the absolute lowest standards of behavior now. I know several teachers that have quit because students throw stuff at them, curse constantly, and behave like animals while they’re at school. If you tell a parent, the parent gets mad at the school. Fix children and parent behavior and it won’t be a matter of “recruitment” anymore. Teachers that are passionate about what they do are passionate about educating, not baby sitting students that know better. Get better discipline in schools and hold students accountable when they do wrong THEN raise teacher pay (believe me, these teachers deserve that and much more). Teachers deserve respect, huge pay, and good working conditions. But to make that happen, you have to start with fixing parental entitlement. Everyone wants to dance around the uncomfortable topics instead of addressing them. 😑
I used to teach in this country, then I went to teach abroad, then I came back and substitute taught. Teaching abroad was mostly so much better than teaching here. Parents seemed to like the way I taught their kids. A majority of my students (certainly not all!) were attentive and smart and funny and participated and got their home work done and scored well on their tests, etc. I remember one of the first subbing jobs I had upon my return. It was only a half day gig and I was able to talk to the teacher before she left. She had a list of about 10 (out of maybe 22) that were "problem" kids and what to watch out for. As she was leaving, the kids were saying good-bye and she didn't respond at all, simply . . . . left. I get it. I've had rough days before, too. But I didn't know her story. Thankfully, it was a pretty easy afternoon.
Absolutely right. The behaviors starts at home. What a parent requires the children to be in and outside the home. I grew up with standards and if you got in trouble at school, there were consequences. Now a days you can curse the teacher out and your parents too. My mom was in education and she dealt with difficult students no one wanted. She's been out over 15 years now. She saw the issues starting then. Kids go to the bathroom and call there parents because they made at the teacher. The parent come to the school and curse everyone out in the office. They have no clue what you are talking about. Also she worked as a teacher in the classrooms. Kids that came back from suspension had new clothes, shoes, etc. It was a vacation for them. One student called the suspension from school their vacation and they knew that there were no consequences. It didn't have any meaning to the parent nor the child. So kids like this never had to change their behavior. Teachers aren't babysitters. They literally mold the children's minds along with the parents. So change starts from the top.
Except that's literally NOT what they said! They all specifically said that they didn't want to leave their students, but the reason they felt the couldn't continue teaching is because of the poor pay that isn't enough to live on, the poor working conditions that require them to use their own money for supplies and work overtime without being paid for it, and the disrespect that comes with politicians accusing teachers of grooming and indoctrinating students in order to gain votes by stoking the culture war! I think maybe you should ask yourself why you, even when you have teachers on camera saying it, refuse to hear their words and instead desperately want it to just be something we can blame on "kids today are bad and their parents suck!"
People need to realize this. The whole reason why we have doctors, lawyers, judges, etc. is because of these teachers. They need to be given everything they need and then some.
get rockerfeller out of school, this is part the rockerfeller agenda 2030. they want to revert it to medeval fuedal times, EXEPT they will be "archons" with ADVANCED teck, in 1960 they had 1990s computers with CD-rom, they have tech YEARS before public get it., why do they fear peaople owning non advanced waepons while they own super advanced? probbaly becuase they KNOW they are going against universal law of the LAND (God Christ ultimate creator eta)
And you truly think the world is better off with a bunch of lying deceitful doctors, lawyers and judges? Please be serious. Schools breed imbeciles. Scientists ruin the world. Chemists are posing our planet. Lawyers are about as corrupt as it gets and doctors are making people sicker not healthier.
That's exactly why it doesn't make much sense why teachers don't get paid as much as doctors, lawyers, or judges considering that most good teachers made them what they are today.
Take it a career step further, the pro athletes paid HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a YEAR for throwing balls or objects in the air for a couple hours a day, wouldn't be there if it wasn't for the teacher getting paid at most $50000-$70000 a year!
@@Littlebigtime You missed the point. People respect doctors and lawyers and see them as accomplished people. But they wouldn't be there without teachers.
I have a niece that wanted to be a teacher for her whole life. She worked hard and went into debt to become a teacher. After 5 Years, she quit, she couldn't believe the behavior of 3rd graders, lack of discipline, lack of attention, and even worse the crazy parents, regardless what the kid it was her fault. She was threatened over failing grades, called a racist, etc etc.
@savannahsmiles1797 public. Private school kids would be kicked out if they acted like that immediately. People are paying money for their kids to attend school and so the administration won't allow bad behavior to destroy other kids private education. Plus parents would raise hell if bad behavior was allowed in private school. Now public school is different. Millennial and genx parents are awful. They let their kids disrespect adults and authority and wonder why their kids will end up in prison or dead as adults. The school administrators at public schools are scared to act because they are worried about parents trying to sue or kids acting violently at school. Personally think they need to put those kids in prison along with the parents.
I lasted 1 year as a high school teacher. A lot of the sudents were obnoxious, lazy and lacked any aspiration. I had 25 students in 3 different classes, and 7 of them failed all claases. When you asked them what they planned to do after high school about 30-40% said Twitch streamer or something related to gaming... I mean.... I just dont know what to say anymore.
@@katherineosere6597 Apply at a private school and join groups to pressure your state legislators to pass vouchers. It's the only hope for a future where you have respectful students to teach. Unless the governor declares martial law and sends soldiers into the classrooms to discipline students, it's so terrible there's zero hope at most public schools now. We had to withdraw our children it's gotten so bad and we were in one of the "better" school districts but it's just gotten terrible beyond saving. Several of our teachers refused to discipline children or intervene during bullying out of fear of losing their jobs. One of the teachers stopped a student that was murdering another student (literally saved that kid's life) and the school district actually suspended the teacher with an investigation and were looking to fire him (a white male who dared stop a black student who was assaulting another student), but when all the students spoke up that he did the right thing they had to drop their investigation. He immediately quit after that and went to work for a private school that is paying him better, and all the students are way more respectful and he also withdrew his kids to put them in that private school (even though they still make him pay half the tuition). Seriously, using my friend who was a public teacher-turned-private teacher as an example, he had a similar story to these people and his problems were ALL solved by becoming a private school teacher. They should all do the same and demand the Texas legislature pass school choice NOW. No amount of money will solve the lack of discipline in public schools, NONE. You can't pay students to be respectful, there actually was a school district that tried this (can't remember if it was Chicago or DC) but it didn't really work. Paying them to get higher grades had some mild success for the already model students, but problem students remained problem students regardless even trying to bribe them to be obedient didn't work. Point is, the only solution is to go private, give people school choice, and just let the public schools be the bottom feeding schools that deal with problem students, maybe turn them all into military academies (we got crap recruitment numbers anyways). Problem solved.
I work for a school district and this is so TRUE 😢 Salary, disrespectful administration and parents, behaviors, lack of support, etc,etc.. all these is real. Teachers should be making more money than those working in the district office, taking phone calls and sending emails.
Exactly!! How someone that finished high school, takes phone calls, sending emails and makes the Superintendents or principles schedule should make $8,000 less than I do as a teach that's been at the same school for 20+ years. And has a LOT of free time during the day. I live in a town of only 2,000 people. I have family that say they see this person running around town constantly. Last week she was spotted at Walmart in the other town...getting groceries. That's not school related.
as a former teacher and administrator you are correct except for your view of those working in district offices.. i have been on both sides.. its more the issue of who at the district level knows there job and has some power to make the changes and provide support to schools and teachers.. i found too many were stuck in old ways. power hungry for status. rules and culture that stood in the way of those who really wanted to make a difference. i had worked for several that pushed and risked there job to get change. sometimes it worked sometimes not.. i was loved and hated at the same time. I developed programs and systems that saved the district hundreds of thousands of dollars. fought for teachers to get better ways to lighten the paperwork and make it easier to get classroom supplies and technology for at risk students.
I am a retired engineer, before I was an engineer I enjoyed teaching math for 10 years. Now that I am retired I decided to substitute teach. It was terrible. When I follow school policy and make students put their phones away ,students would be very rude to me. Some students would tell the principal that they did not like the way I looked at them. I then would not be allowed to substitute teach. I was also attacked by a student because I picked up the students phone and nothing was done. Since I was an engineer, I have a good retirement, so not teaching does not hurt me. It is hard for regular teachers to quit. So they have to put up with the abuse and it hurts them emotionally. I was insulted by the students every time I made them follow the rules. Having no support from Principals a person is in a trap, they cannot get out of. So they get physically sick. Until school boards support the principals, principals will not support teachers. So the students rule the schools.
Sorry, but your conclusion that students rule schools is inaccurate. Everyone involved in schools has some input in varying ways, and the best word to describe how schools work is "balance." Teachers shouldn't be physically taking phones from students- it's essentially asking for trouble. Students are more "in a trap" than anyone else at school because they're more or less forced to attend schools and follow the rules, which are not made by them; are hard to define, enforce, and enforce fairly; and vary significantly because different staff members have differing behavior management styles. A lot of working with kids in schools (and people anywhere and everywhere) is often about *the approach*. I work as a substitute teacher. I wouldn't want to be a teacher. I haven't had students insult me. There's a very interesting old short film about teaching that I've seen in a couple of David Hoffman's videos. I'll reply with information.
The old short film is in the "David Hoffman" channel in a video titled "Did 1950s Dress Codes Work To Discipline Students?" The film is split up into two pieces. I also saw it in a video of his from a year or more ago where it was the only topic and I think it was in one piece.
It’s the troublemaking students that “rule the schools” because the craven politicians keep screaming about “parents’ rights.” School administrators live in fear of being accused of crimes or sued for simply telling students to sit down and stop disrupting. A student falsely accused my wife of assaulting her; after Child Protective Services investigated, she was immediately cleared. We still were out $1500 for a lawyer. To say or imply that there is not a discipline problem in many schools is naive or misinformed. And to say students are “forced “ to attend schools makes a mockery of U.S. education.
@@synupps877 As a substitute teacher, it is true that if you do not require students to follow rules you will have no problem with the students, but if you wish to teach a lesson you may not be successful. The student who attacked me was running around the classroom acting crazy. I knew if I took the phone out of the classroom she would follow me out of the classroom and the other students would be safe.
“If you’re complaining about the cashier who doesn’t understand how to count your change, you better be at that school supporting us and students” That. Is. Perfect.
I'm complaining about the lack of discipline, and proper behavior kids should give their elders and teachers. Corporal Punishment needs to come back and made legal under certain guidelines.
Kids aren't stupid. They know cash is dead. They'll probably have zero chance to work in such jobs in the near future. Understanding mathematics is incredibly important of course for many other things but I don't blame them for thinking it's just a waste of time now when no mater how hard they work - they'll never get in front of struggling to live.
My daughter just graduated Law school last summer. Her kindergarten teacher came to our home for her high school graduation party….that’s how important our teachers are at ALL levels, without exception and without distinction. Thank you!
Thank you for saying this! I am still in touch with HUNDREDS of my students and I cry out of joy when I see so many of them as doctors, lawyers, engineers, CEOs, etc. and so many of them have thanked me directly for inspiring and supporting them. That's the only reason I haven't quit yet. Because honestly I'm deeply depressed and struggling to stay with it.
I was shopping with my mom last year and we met one of her former colleagues. She was happy to see us again and surprised about the fact that I'm on the verge of graduating.
My wife is an elementary school teacher here in North Texas. I can’t tell you how many conversations we have had about her being a stay at home mom. Shes taught for 10yrs now. She’s committed to educating and shaping the youth but it’s very difficult at times. We made it a rule that she does not bring the work home to try and mitigate her stress and anxiety. We are blessed that I make 6 figures so I’ve always told her if you want to stop just say so. I doubt she will but it’s just sad what teachers go through nowadays. God bless them all
I only taught 1 semester as a Science Teacher in Dallas ISD. Afterwards, I decided to quit forever. I would rather make a 6 month mistake rather than a 6 year mistake. I cannot speak for the entire teaching profession, nor for all of DISD because the types of students you will get varies TREMENDOUSLY from school to school. For me personally, it was NOT THE STUDENTS. I taught 110 students over 6 classes. At my particular high school it was 82% Hispanic, 12% Black, 2% White and 4% Other. Of the 6 classes I taught, only ONE of the classes was a circus with severely bad behavior. The other 5 classes were not terrible, but not great either. However, it is my understanding that there are some HORRIFICALLY BEHAVED kids in other DISD Schools so the caliber of student can vary IMMENSELY. The #1 reason I quit was Administration. For me personally, I GAVE MY HEART & SOUL INTO TEACHING! I was literally the FIRST teacher on campus EVERY SINGLE DAY and arrived 2 hours BEFORE CLASSES begun. I moved heaven & earth to make sure I had the BEST POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS in DALLAS ISD!!! No, I did not say “one of the best powerpoint presentations in DISD” or “pretty darn good for DISD”… I said “BEST POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS in DISD!” Yes, I am aware there are 10,000 teachers in DISD, so yes, I understand that is a pretty bold statement to make. Having said that you should know that I have over a DECADE’s worth of experience in Web Development which required at least HALF of my time on the CONTENT SIDE, while the other half was dedicated to SEO, database Management (Postgres & MySQL), website management, coding (Python/Django, html/css and Server Administration through the Google Cloud Platform & Digital Ocean. On the content side, I am EXCELLENT with most of the Adobe Creative Cloud Apps, as well as Final Cut Pro/Adobe After Effects. I also personally own $10,000+ in plugins as well as professional media content in the form of videos, images, and stock music… So yes, I feel pretty comfortable making the bold assertion that I offered the BEST CONTENT DALLAS ISD HAS EVER SEEN! Given my background, experience, and training I would HOPE SO! Although I have never actually worked for any media company, I can guarantee I could run circles around their media guys. So it was a BREATHTAKING moment of insanity when I had a Dallas ISD Administrator tell me that “fancy Powerpoint Presentations don’t impress us”. Yeah, he actually said that… Let that sink in… Funny thing is that 93% of all communication is non-verbal, but according to DISD the visuals dont matter. Ok go figure. Also, this same Disd Administrator conducted 3 formal observations of me. The first observation he basically said i did a good job. But the last two formal observations he conducted basically said I was a horrible teacher… But there was a FUNDAMENTAL problem with his last two observations he did of me…and you will not believe the answer!!! NOT A SINGLE STUDENT IN THE LAST TWO FORMAL OBSERVATIONS SPOKE ENGLISH!!! Let that sink in for a few moments… I am NOT alleging that my students spoke BAD ENGLISH. I am not saying my students could not understand 25% of what I was saying. I am saying my students understood 0 ⭕️🚫 English!!! (Of those that attended the last 2 formal observations!!! In fact, my students LITERALLY could not raise a hand to ask to use the bathroom, and if you have ever taught any type of school, as a teacher you know thats a pretty big deal!!! And it gets WORSE!!! It turns out I speak a little bit of Spanish, not great but passable. I am not bilingual but my Spanish is passable for our purposes. So during the 2nd formal Observation, i taught the entire class in Spanish. After the class I had a Zoom meeting with him, and he complains to me that I taught the class in Spanish even though I am not certified to speak Spanish in my classroom. Ok I did not know about that rule. Maybe there is some rhyme or reason to that rule. So be it. But take a wild guess as to what his NEXT COMPLAINT WAS… Wait for it…this is a good one… His next question, I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP OR EXAGGERATING was: “WHY ARE YOU NOT ASKING MORE QUESTIONS FROM YOUR STUDENTS???” I was stunned… My brain began to short-circuit… I was absolutely confused into silence for several seconds… Then I asked him, “Wait, are you asking me why I am not asking them questions IN ENGLISH, when you and I know THEY SPEAK LITERALLY NO ENGLISH???” All of a sudden, he goes completely silent, thinks about it… And then changes the subject… The level of incompetence literally scrambled my brains. I was literally wondering if this guy was living on ANOTHER PLANET. As he began talking, it felt like I was living on Planet Earth and this DISD Administrator was living in another galaxy far far far away… Literally Millions of Light Years away spanning well over the span of the human civilization, earth, the Solar System, and perhaps predating the Big Bang Theory. And as if that wasnt bad enough, it HAPPENED AGAIN!!! For my 3rd Formal Observation none of my students spoke English. And again, I got another horrible review. And what was his #1 complaint??? “…not enough feedback mechanisms being used in class…” as per his report. Let me translate that for you: “Not asking enough Formative Questions in ENGLISH, the very language they DO NOT KNOW…” Yeah, that happened!!! All of it… WITHOUT EXAGGERATION!!! It has been my experience in life if someone is telling you about something and you get confused during the conversation because their story does not make sense, it contains a lot of contradicting facts, and shows ZERO LOGIC… that person is LYING to you 9/10. That one time when they were telling you the truth was when they were seriously inebriated. FURTHERMORE… When you are dealing with someone one on one and NOTHING they do makes sense at all… Literally EVERYTHING they do is BIZARRE… Literally EVERYTHING they do is insane… Every time YOU TRY TO PLACE YOURSELF IN THEIR SHOES and try to understand their actions, in-actions, and perspective, IT STILL MAKES NO SENSE… You are either being: 1.) Scammed 2.) Lied to 3.) Being De-Frauded 4.) Treated in BAD FAITH & UNFAIR DEALING or 5.) Insert Profanity here. That is the sum of my entire experience with Dallas ISD. And it is without embellishment, exaggeration, falsehoods, or inaccuracies of any kind. I even have the documentation to prove it.
. I totally believe what you said, I live in Dallas, TX and my daughter has been in same school since kinder and I started seen different race people since las year, but this semester I saw an invasion of illegal people in the school. They had to have a classrooms with non speakers English , I have not idea how they will perform thru the years since starting 6grade all will be English only...
My son was assaulted by a kid in his second year of teaching. It happened in front of the entire class. He sent the kid to the office, where she accused him of "grabbing" her hand (as she was swinging it at him). He didn't. He stepped out of the way. He was totally shocked. She was back in class the next day. He was up for a disciplinary investigation. Teachers desperately need the support of government, employers and parents. It, also, wouldn't hurt for parents to spend some time teaching their kids respect.
Being a male teacher is almost impossible. I work in Asia and I've had friends blackmailed by schools for helping kids in the bathroom because the school forced them to. They pointed out how their contract stated they're not supposed to wake the kids up from nap time, change clothes, or help in the bathroom and the schools told them to do it in front of a camera or they'd be fired. I quit the second a school tries to make me help with any of those.
My teacher colleague was struck by a 5th grade student so hard she was on leave for 6 weeks. Nothing happened to the student, they just moved him to a different class. There is no accountability whatsoever.
An American I knew years ago worked as teacher in Japan, and said the difference was night and day. She said the Respect from the students was 100% as a cultural norm. And so teaching was easy. But if a society breeds entitlement, aggrandizement, contempt for others and hatred as a cultural norm, this is the unfortunate result. It’s deeper and starts within each individual, there’s already a war within that person and they only look to project that onto others. Deep Peace, and deep respect for self and others needs to be fostered.
I think a lot of it comes from our society. I’ve heard in my life over and over again, how teaching isn’t a real profession.... rhetoric like that is heard by the children, and then they end up treating their teachers like complete crap. It’s just insane that they’re not paying them correctly. But what are you expect from a red state? They like to say they care about children and teachers, but the way they vote says otherwise.It’s just horrifying because my mom is a teacher, and we live in a blue state and even she is struggling. I cannot fathom how it is in a place with lower support.
YEs. You are correct. I have a BS in Business and am learning Japanese so that I may apply for a teaching visa in Okinawa where honor and respect is a way of life.
I quit after my first year. Came back after a year and worked 2 years at a phenomenal prep school here in North Texas. Quit after 2 years, heath insurance was horrible and I couldn’t sustain my family financially. Went back into banking and I make more than a teacher that’s been teaching over 20 years. Now I’m learning IT! I was a North Texas teacher like these teachers!
My daughter in law left after two years. She works at a gas station and makes more as an assistant manager. I stay because 90% of my students make it worth it, because I need a decent health insurance for my own illnesses and now PTSD after a student messed up my nervous system after an incident. It saddens me to see how society and bad politicians, parents and followers are messing things up.
I'm in teaching now. Do I just apply at my local bank? The teller ladies always look so happy and have time to do their makeup and hair every morning. I miss that
Happy you got out and are going better for yourself 👍. The more teachers that quit, the sooner the real problem will be looked at: student misbehavior.
@thearmy88ify That's why a lot of males aren't in teaching, or both spouses work. I see you're military. USAF Brat, and I know the pay is low also especially for NCO's. Same with many firefighters and police departments.
How do most of you guys make so much wealth, I'm just curious about the whole process. I still haven't figured out what to invest in yet. Somebody once told me "It costs you more to be poor." 🤯
Well, I picked the challenge to put my finances in order. Then i invested in cryptocurrency, stocks, through the assistance of my discretionary fund manager
As a teacher who taught for 16 years in TX, different districts across Houston and Dallas. I decided to leave the profession last year for many reasons mentioned in this video. I loved the connections I made with my students, the difference I made in their lives, etc.; I didn't mind working the extra hours without pay when I was single with no kids.Even after starting a family, I did my best to hold on, but it was always a struggle balancing work and family. 3-4 times out of the five days at school, our planning periods were dedicated to team meetings or training. Which meant there was no time to plan lessons or to grade. I worked long hours during the weekday and still had to spend most weekends working. I have two kids, and on my last teaching assignment, I came home with $998 every two weeks. My rent alone was $2200. How is one to survive on that? There was no extra time to work a side hustle. I left and now work in tech, making a little over double my teacher’s salary and with more time to spend with my kids.
Good for you, that you were able to get out. When you take home $1,996 a month and the Rent is $2,200, that is unsustainable! I hate to say this, but if enough Teachers quit, then the States will raise Salaries, so Teachers can live on them, without working a "Side Hustle"!
Bless you for having worked as a teacher. Perfect example of how teachers aren't valued. In our state professions that are deemed "woman's work" rarely are valued. This also means we don't value women as much as men. I hope this changes in my lifetime, but given the current political direction, in Texas, I fear it will only get worse before getting better. An investment in our teachers is an investment in our future (and this shouldn't be just for the wealthy in private schools) .
My daughter is a first year teacher in Houston, she went in optimistic, determined to make a change in these kids’ lives: instead she spends most of her time with discipline, as teachers are required to deal with unruly, disrespectful students. She graduated from Texas Tech with a degree in Agriculture Business and Science, she is considering going back into that field. Parents need to help raise their kids and teach them respect.
It's a losing battle with the public schools. She could start her own student pod where parents hire her to teach. She could go to a Christian, Catholic, Montessori, charter, or Waldorf School. Public schools are not worth her sanity, health and finances.
We live in a corrupt and dishonest world and those who do their job to the best of their ability suffer. I am an electrician and I lived in socialism (communism) and now a democratic system. Everything is corrupt today and I don't see anything positive when some nonsense is being forced instead of normal basic human values. If it is not in the interest to have a healthy and normal society, then it is better to fail because this does not make sense. Teachers have always been respected and the question arises as to who is the main culprit for this mess. Western democracy is a fraud and never existed. I have always followed the rules no matter what they are and I have no difficulty in behaving civilly in any situation. I happened to be several times in 82 and 83 in Galveston and Houston. According to me, Texas is the best state in America with an interesting culture based on my modest knowledge of America. Moving from USA to Croatia - Sara Dyson (TEXAS Dallas) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H3ioqhjRdxg.html Sara Dyson of Expat in Croatia on RTL Danas ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jOk8Ku7DbDY.html The Story of Expat in Croatia's Sara Dyson ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IcQFECVfLb8.html&ab_channel=AllThingsCroatia CWoI 2023 Winners ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DD781AOXGi4.html&ab_channel=CroatianWomen%27sNetworkMre%C5%BEaHrvatskih%C5%BDena Croatian Citizenship: How to Get it and Advantages ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CGtn6vdZ1EY.html&ab_channel=traveleconomics THE MAIN REASONS WE LOVE living in CROATIA! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-prudSXl8xiA.html&ab_channel=RoyalCroatianTours
Someone I work with says all the time “they don’t make parents like the used to.” And it’s so true. My teacher talked to my mom once because I wasn’t doing my homework and there was hell to pay for that. I didn’t hear the end of it for a while. I can’t imagine the punishment I’d have gotten if I hit my teacher. Parents just aren’t the same. They have no respect and they raise disrespectful children.
My mother would have skinned me alive had I done half of what my students get away with. And that’s if the teacher left anything for them to discipline.
@@LandonStrauss-hc1sc It's still no excuse for not raising their kids and how they end up being disrespectful. These parents made these kids, they need to raise, discipline, and talk to them---in other words, BE a parent!
I taught in TX for about 10 years. I"ll give you a few reasons why I and other teachers left teaching. The principals go and hide if they don't want to be bothered. The students are so disrespectful you will almost have to threaten if they hit you, you WILL knock them out! Then of course you will get a child abuse case for just defending yourself! Then you have a felony and can never get another decent job! Send these grown kids to the office and they" ll send them back with a pat on the back, candy and tell YOU you have to deal with it! There are middle school teacher cliques that will exclude you and talk about you if you don't hang out or party with them. I've had to hold my going to the bathroom over an hour later because no one came to watch my class. I've run multiple lesson plans staying late at school for these lesson plans. I had normal blood pressure but felt one day like I was going to have a stroke. I've had to go into the hallway to get air after being called multiple names by students just for asking for homework. You really go into teaching to help students but the system is set up to help them fail and you're just a casualty along the way! They ought to let teachers that have actually taught for years in the classroom set the agendas and rules for schools. I left TX and teaching two years ago for customer service and I'm happy I did! TX will continue to lose teachers and the students will continue to go downhill and the bottom line will be we as a country will suffer and I predict the U. S. will be the most backwards uneducated country on the planet!
I say this with all sincerity: congratulations on getting out of Texas and the teaching profession. I hope one day to get my daughter out, though I wish it could be to a different country altogether. ❤
Former educator here 👋 Hear hear to the last sentence 👏 Let’s fast forward this by continually voting for the orange nincompoop buffoon and his buffoon cronies…I want my “I told you so” in the next 10 or so years 😂😭
I work in education, and yes, the disrespect from students is ridiculous. I may not have liked all my teachers when I was in school, but I respected them. Bless all of you wonderful parents and educators in this country and world.
I hated school and even dropped out but I have never disrespected a teacher the way I've seen students today do. It makes me sad because one day they'll look back and see how important education is.
The middle class is being destroyed by the Capitalist, managerial class. Charter schools are stealing money from the public system. Middle Class wages are stagnant & many are living at the poverty line. What I just pointed out are the specific sociological reasons why there is no student respect for teachers. Demoralized humans often act out in ways that are not respectful. Respect is a two way street, Teachers represent state authority. How has the state shown respect to the citizen when they constantly write laws to subjugate citizen. Ps. Trump is still a free man, and no one meaningful went to jail after the 2008 financial crash. The pandemic created a wealth transfer to the 1% but u can't understand why the middle classes are crumbling and not being respectful?
You forgot to mention one factor: the demonization of teachers by conservatives and far-right Christian nationalists who have been inculcated to believe that teachers are indoctrinating their children is also contributing to teacher disillusionment.
My mom was a wonderful teacher. She worked like 60 per week to do planning, grading, and setting up the classroom. The teachers in her school district went over a decade without ANY raises while administrators' salaries almost doubled. She finally retired any barely got any retirement after 40 years of teaching. It's gotta change, these current teachers are putting up with horrible parents and students while being paid peanuts.
I live in Vermont where teachers make far more money than the a erage worker, have far better benefit programs and pensions, something denied to corporate workers.
Being a teacher is noble duty. To all the eductors who have quit teaching because of the stress and other issues you've faced. I appreciate your time and efforts into educating our children. Thank for your service.
I don't live in Texas and I am not an American citizen. I wish I can do what you are suggesting but unfortunately I can't. I am ineligible to vote living anyway in the States.
I only taught 1 semester as a Science Teacher in Dallas ISD. Afterwards, I decided to quit forever. I would rather make a 6 month mistake rather than a 6 year mistake. I cannot speak for the entire teaching profession, nor for all of DISD because the types of students you will get varies TREMENDOUSLY from school to school. For me personally, it was NOT THE STUDENTS. I taught 110 students over 6 classes. At my particular high school it was 82% Hispanic, 12% Black, 2% White and 4% Other. Of the 6 classes I taught, only ONE of the classes was a circus with severely bad behavior. The other 5 classes were not terrible, but not great either. However, it is my understanding that there are some HORRIFICALLY BEHAVED kids in other DISD Schools so the caliber of student can vary IMMENSELY. The #1 reason I quit was Administration. For me personally, I GAVE MY HEART & SOUL INTO TEACHING! I was literally the FIRST teacher on campus EVERY SINGLE DAY and arrived 2 hours BEFORE CLASSES begun. I moved heaven & earth to make sure I had the BEST POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS in DALLAS ISD!!! No, I did not say “one of the best powerpoint presentations in DISD” or “pretty darn good for DISD”… I said “BEST POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS in DISD!” Yes, I am aware there are 10,000 teachers in DISD, so yes, I understand that is a pretty bold statement to make. Having said that you should know that I have over a DECADE’s worth of experience in Web Development which required at least HALF of my time on the CONTENT SIDE, while the other half was dedicated to SEO, database Management (Postgres & MySQL), website management, coding (Python/Django, html/css and Server Administration through the Google Cloud Platform & Digital Ocean. On the content side, I am EXCELLENT with most of the Adobe Creative Cloud Apps, as well as Final Cut Pro/Adobe After Effects. I also personally own $10,000+ in plugins as well as professional media content in the form of videos, images, and stock music… So yes, I feel pretty comfortable making the bold assertion that I offered the BEST CONTENT DALLAS ISD HAS EVER SEEN! Given my background, experience, and training I would HOPE SO! Although I have never actually worked for any media company, I can guarantee I could run circles around their media guys. So it was a BREATHTAKING moment of insanity when I had a Dallas ISD Administrator tell me that “fancy Powerpoint Presentations don’t impress us”. Yeah, he actually said that… Let that sink in… Funny thing is that 93% of all communication is non-verbal, but according to DISD the visuals dont matter. Ok go figure. Also, this same Disd Administrator conducted 3 formal observations of me. The first observation he basically said i did a good job. But the last two formal observations he conducted basically said I was a horrible teacher… But there was a FUNDAMENTAL problem with his last two observations he did of me…and you will not believe the answer!!! NOT A SINGLE STUDENT IN THE LAST TWO FORMAL OBSERVATIONS SPOKE ENGLISH!!! Let that sink in for a few moments… I am NOT alleging that my students spoke BAD ENGLISH. I am not saying my students could not understand 25% of what I was saying. I am saying my students understood 0 ⭕️🚫 English!!! (Of those that attended the last 2 formal observations!!! In fact, my students LITERALLY could not raise a hand to ask to use the bathroom, and if you have ever taught any type of school, as a teacher you know thats a pretty big deal!!! And it gets WORSE!!! It turns out I speak a little bit of Spanish, not great but passable. I am not bilingual but my Spanish is passable for our purposes. So during the 2nd formal Observation, i taught the entire class in Spanish. After the class I had a Zoom meeting with him, and he complains to me that I taught the class in Spanish even though I am not certified to speak Spanish in my classroom. Ok I did not know about that rule. Maybe there is some rhyme or reason to that rule. So be it. But take a wild guess as to what his NEXT COMPLAINT WAS… Wait for it…this is a good one… His next question, I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP OR EXAGGERATING was: “WHY ARE YOU NOT ASKING MORE QUESTIONS FROM YOUR STUDENTS???” I was stunned… My brain began to short-circuit… I was absolutely confused into silence for several seconds… Then I asked him, “Wait, are you asking me why I am not asking them questions IN ENGLISH, when you and I know THEY SPEAK LITERALLY NO ENGLISH???” All of a sudden, he goes completely silent, thinks about it… And then changes the subject… The level of incompetence literally scrambled my brains. I was literally wondering if this guy was living on ANOTHER PLANET. As he began talking, it felt like I was living on Planet Earth and this DISD Administrator was living in another galaxy far far far away… Literally Millions of Light Years away spanning well over the span of the human civilization, earth, the Solar System, and perhaps predating the Big Bang Theory. And as if that wasnt bad enough, it HAPPENED AGAIN!!! For my 3rd Formal Observation none of my students spoke English. And again, I got another horrible review. And what was his #1 complaint??? “…not enough feedback mechanisms being used in class…” as per his report. Let me translate that for you: “Not asking enough Formative Questions in ENGLISH, the very language they DO NOT KNOW…” Yeah, that happened!!! All of it… WITHOUT EXAGGERATION!!! It has been my experience in life if someone is telling you about something and you get confused during the conversation because their story does not make sense, it contains a lot of contradicting facts, and shows ZERO LOGIC… that person is LYING to you 9/10. That one time when they were telling you the truth was when they were seriously inebriated. FURTHERMORE… When you are dealing with someone one on one and NOTHING they do makes sense at all… Literally EVERYTHING they do is BIZARRE… Literally EVERYTHING they do is insane… Every time YOU TRY TO PLACE YOURSELF IN THEIR SHOES and try to understand their actions, in-actions, and perspective, IT STILL MAKES NO SENSE… You are either being: 1.) Scammed 2.) Lied to 3.) Being De-Frauded 4.) Treated in BAD FAITH & UNFAIR DEALING or 5.) Insert Profanity here. That is the sum of my entire experience with Dallas ISD. And it is without embellishment, exaggeration, falsehoods, or inaccuracies of any kind. I even have the documentation to prove it.
I had to end my teaching career early after 28 years. I now work in a blue collar factory job. I can not BELIEVE how easy my job is now and my hourly pay is about the same. Schools abuse teachers as a matter of course. Multiple school administrators have literally been some of the worst human beings I've met in my life. I miss my kids! 😥
Yes!! I work at a library making library cards, shelving books, etc. I make the same as I did teaching how after 3 raises and I just started less than 6 months ago😊
i miss my special needs kids, but when you get paid 14.40 an hour and the principal doesn't care, you can't stay. when they talk to you like you're 12, you either leave or have a heart attack
As a student I hated most of my teachers and I was what I consider a “bad” student. My attitude, grades, and self esteem were all garbage. That being said I still never disrespected my teachers the way kids do now. That girl that pepper sprayed her teacher because he took her phone because she was using it to CHEAT. He lost his job! It’s insane to me how shitty of a person you have to be to assault your teachers.
And a different student had punched that teacher just 2 months before. I hope he can quit and get another job. There are a lot of British and American teachers working overseas and this video explains a lot of the 'push' factors.
As a substitute teacher in San Francisco, I can say that the physical violence and disrespect is horrendous at all grade levels. The stress from my last assignment became so bad that I had constant chest pain and insomnia. My doctor made me come into his office and then get an ECG because he thought I might be having a heart attack. I asked an administrator why students are not suspended for horrific behavior, and she told me, "It's not a good look." There are many teachers in the district who are currently on disability. I left my previous assignment, and am working irregularly now. It is just not worth the stress. There are parents who will not recognize their children's problematic behaviors, and put the blame on teachers. These parents can be very vicious.
@@theoriginalkrabbypatty Teachers do not set the curriculum. If you have a problem with what is being taught, take it up with your state's governor, the school board, and administration. Teachers are the low men on the totem pole. In my state, what you call "grooming" is the law, and teachers who don't follow it can be fired and/or fined, regardless of personal beliefs.
Outstanding interview. My mom was an elementary teacher and I was a college instructor. Things were bad when my mom retired, they sound horrific now. You all have my deepest sympathy. These people are clearly well educated and trained to handle problems....there are just too many problems for them to deal with. It is ridiculous that teachers of small children cannot wrap their arms around a child that is losing it to both contain and comfort them.
Another thing people can do to support teachers: stop treating them like crap and stop hiring administrators who are batsh*t crazy and treat them like crap, too. This insanity needs to stop or we’re going to be one giant dystopia in the very near future.
The rich will always get their education and the rest of us will suffer. Allowing far right idiots to have a say and be on boards, will continue and that’ll be the end of public education as we know it.
Most administrators got there because they could not hack it in the classroom. They got their advanced degrees, not to better serve the students, but to get the heck out.
I taught at CCSD the building administrators were fast tracked and just as stressed as the teachers. Their admins would tell them that had to do as told and reminded them how unqualified they were. I laughed when recommended for admin training. No thank you
I see several problems, the school administration, the parents, and politicians. Teachers are one of the most valuable professions we have! This country cares more about sports and other industries than those that educate our children. Unbelievable!
I’ve taught for 30 years- the majority of my problems have come from students who come from messed up homes/parents with no time for them & from people outside of the classroom and/or school who have no idea what is really going on in education. I saw a big change in behaviors when everyone got phones, tablets, and social media.
We are now in our third generation of “independent” women and fatherless homes on a mass scale . We can’t expect teachers to be parents to these kids and we need to go back to how it was before no child left behind . Set some expectations and hold the kids to it .
Yea it sucks that now in days both parents have to work like crazy to survive so the kids are getting neglected. As a single mom I’m reallly trying to give my kids real time and lessons they can learn from me not just school
I've always said if people complain about stupid people they should be supporting education. Unfortunately ive come to learn many of them just want to feel superior to others. They dont complain about the cashier because it harms them at all, they do it to feel better than them. Those people absolutely are against education.
@@liberalismisaids9564 Women have to be independent to support themselves & their families. Women don't have to stay with an abusive spouse, anymore. Single family homes are a problem, though. The major problem is teaching their children to respect authority.
I spent 30 years as Principal’s Secretary. I watched everything these teachers are saying. I fought for my teachers as much as I could. Unfortunately, the District Administration is where all the money goes. And in Texas, football. A HS Coach makes 2to 3 times what a teacher makes. Teachers are just a necessary expense and considered replaceable. It’s sad. I loved my teachers. These teachers are telling the truth.
That's insane that in america we dont support all atheletes but only popular ones such as football. And thats the one profession no one is going to get into
@neversaydie2041 It is different. A number of districts in California, for example, have cut out football. And even where it remains, a lower proportion of the students now play it than in the southern states. Can you imagine anyone in a position of authority in Texas advocating cutting football? They would likely be tarred and feathered, and run out of the state on a rail!!
Here are the reasons we are quitting 1. State legislatures putting more and more accountability metrics on the backs of teachers 2. Parents no longer holding their children accountable for their actions 3. Low pay. Several of my teacher friends are on food stamps 4. State education leaders changes content and curriculum standards every few years
I worked for a short time in a restaurant. People like to stereotype who the worst tippers were, but for me it was always teachers. I was never upset about that, but sad that such important people were not properly compensated.
We need to stop telling people it's okay to get paid less just because you're "doing what you love." That's exploitative manipulation. Where we spend our money shows our priorities, and if we're not paying educators then it's clearly not our priority. No matter what you're doing you deserve to be paid a living wage. You deserve to thrive. End this martyr complex BS.
No one could pay me enough to teach children that have "0" discipline. They can turn the nicest Teacher into a homicidal maniac, no one should be subjected to undisciplined children, most would have to borrow manners because they have none from that family.
A lot of parents don't respect teachers and state legislatures don't want to fund public school above and beyond because so many in the GOP are pushing for private school funding through vouchers.
AND they should re-institute corporal punishment (my school used paddles). It worked before, it can work again. Either that, or throw the miscreants in jail. What SHOULD now happen is have a camera set up in EVERY classroom which can be reviewed if a student gets unruly. Right now, it's all he said/she said. That needs to stop.
EVERY point they made is 100% accurate and it applies across all states. The disrespect, behavior in general, use of profanity, and etc. is unreal. It gets worse by the day.
It depends where you live. My son started kindergarten in a great school where he loved all his classmates and teachers and learned so much. In 1st - 3rd grade we were in another district, where he suddenly became withdrawn and behavioral problems, not learning much. I went to his school one day and could see why, kids and teachers yelling, just pure chaos everywhere. His old school was not like that. I homeschooled my son and we eventually moved. He started 4th grade and became a completely different kid, well adjusted, polite, happy. Kids pick up on the behaviors of who they're around for sure Some kids are around chaos all day at home and take that to school, spreading it to even the healthy kids
I’m a teacher. I love teaching so bad, but I don’t teach anymore because of everything they said. The disrespect from students AND parents, the lack of support from the school administration, the ridiculous demands and the low salary were causing me a lot of health problems.
Lack of support is the biggest one for me, as a new teacher in Dallas ISD. Honestly my job is almost enjoyable except for when I deal with the administrators. If I quit my job in teaching it wont be due to the students, it will be due to the Administrators. The admins I deal with always have a complaint, yet when you ask them what the solution, they CANNOT tell you. Also, I learned pretty quickly to avoid asking admins questions because they NEVER have a decent answer to BASIC questions they are paid to know. I am convinced they dont want me there and want me to disappear. To this day I have never had an admin, or ANYONE in the faculty who have reached out to me offering advice, tips, or where the cafeteria is which is weird because this is the first job n my adult life where someone did NOT offer help or advice to a new employee. Even at the WORST jobs I have had there is always someone available to help you figure stuff out. At every other job I have had there is some sort of manager or boss, and his job is to make sure ALL EMPLOYEES know what they are supposed to do and how to do it. It is LITERALLY their job description. At my school, it is the opposite. The people who are supposed to be your bosses (the admin) move heaven and earth to avoid answering questions and offering advice, but instead criticize you for ridiculous stuff even though they cannot tell you how to correct the problem. So yes, the problem with our education system starts at the top, and works its way down. The QUICKEST way to fix a school is to fire the Admin and work your way down.
@@shaft5 You are most likely to not receive support if you're doing a good job and that makes everyone else look bad, especially the administration. I'm sorry, but it's the true. And, yes, sometimes we find that special someone that in good faith is willing to help you and give you tips, not only to handle the situations that we face on a daily basis, but to handle the system where you work now. But it's not really something that happens that often as it might have seemed for you. I'm glad it has happened to you before, but based on my experience, it's more like a 50/50 possibility of finding a special someone like that.
I left teaching 30 years ago because of the disrespect and having been assaulted by a student in the classroom. And they say things have gotten so much worse???? I can't even imagine.
Parents don’t say no or give consequences for bad behavior. My friend , a teacher of 25 years, recently got kicked by a student she has known since elementary school. Mom did absolutely nothing. She has said the exact same thing. We are watching the complete breakdown of society and it isn’t just happening here in America
Even scarier Texas is an open carry state and is ground zero for school shootings. Parents, I hold you responsible for your kids and the people you vote for.
Society broke down years when we started letting the American left corrupt the minds of the masses via the bloated and braindead public education system.
Nowadays, a good percentage of children behave atrociously. Parents expect the school to do their parenting for them. It's honestly one of the major factors for why I will homeschool. I have no intention of letting my kids be around children who are violent and so disrespectful. Especially since schools can't or won't discipline the kids anymore. Nope, my kids won't be exposed to such utter nonsense that goes mostly unchecked. Both of my sisters were teachers. One quit and will never go back. My other sister git her masters and is now a school librarian. She never wanted back in the classroom again.
I'm a public school teacher. I'm very happy you decided to homeschool because there are far too many disrespectful, out of control, foul mouthed, garbage spewing children. We have several in our kindergarten class that stab, spit, punch, pull hair, curse, describe and draw sexual acts, etc. We are constantly calling CPS, etc. Those abused, unparented children can rob your children of their innocence in a flash. We must protect our own children because schools can't expell or suspend young behaviorally disordered children! It is illegal so the same bad apple kids get "rights to an education". The only protection for your children is home schooling or to find a private school that can expell or reject admission of behavior children.
@@happycook6737 Thank you for sharing your experiences. It's utterly terrible what is going on nowadays. I am so sorry for everything you deal with at work on a daily basis. I know there are amazing teachers out there who truly do their best to educate children, but there is only so much you can do when so much of your class time is being spent handling behavior issues.
It's not that schools won't discipline the kids but it's actually the parents of those children who won't let teachers discipline their kids when they're away from home. Because in the parents' eyes their children can "do no wrong" to which I find nothing but disgusting. That's why right now, I don't wanna have anything to do with kids. Plus, the last thing I want is another boss who is nothing but greedy for money & very pro-parent.
Former public school teacher here. I was a special education teacher during my last year of teaching. I disciplined students and doled out consequences for their behavior that they didn't like. Yet, my fellow colleagues treated ME as if I was the one who was misbehaving and out of line. Of course, my colleagues absolutely did NOT want the students I mentioned in their classrooms! 😂 My point is, some teachers do discipline, but it can become a reverse uno situation where somehow the sane, civil adult is the one at fault.
No, no, no! Do NOT become a teacher in the US. It is the most stressful, unappreciated, even dangerous profession. If you were born to be a teacher, go teach elsewhere. Other countries value the teaching profession a TON more than the U. S.
My mother is a now retired librarian/teacher. She retired about 4 years ago. For the last ten years of her employment she was actively discouraging people from entering the profession (unless like you say they were seeking overseas employment).
I remember being in elementary school and knowing right away that I didn't want to be a teacher. The amount of disrespectful kids in one class was outrageous. And that was in the 90s. I can't even imagine how horrible these kids are now. Parents need to do better and stop depending on teachers to discipline your children.
Right. I graduated in 2006 and I can remember not knowing who I disliked more: my patronizing authoritarian teachers most of whom treated me like I was perpetually 6 years old, or the majority of the other students who actually acted like it. I honestly wish I had been home schooled in retrospect, except, oh wait, I didn't much like my parents either lol. I can't even imagine what its like in there with all the social media crap now.
@@Parakeetfriend4215 I think a lot of these parents want the teachers to actually raise the kids because they're around them more than the parents are, and then blame the teachers for not making their kids' behavior better in those few hours a day because teachers can't properly discipline the kids. Even parents who spout "it takes a village" should know that it does NOT mean abandon the kid TO the village and hope for the best. Parents need to be that leader by example before their kids get to the age where their just-as-unenlightened peers take over as examples. I trained to teach, but never got my classroom (bad timing mostly). Subbed forever til I couldn't afford to. I tutor at learning centers because the parents want to know what's going on and (mostly) hold their kids accountable for unfinished work and practices. But the classroom itself? I gave that up ages ago because the kids' behavior and parents don't want to hear about it. Your hands are tied and the kids know it, so there's little incentive for them to behave.
Kids in my high school still grabbed punched acted stupid I stayed high because I was so bored and worked high school was a joke I learned more in a room by myself at eight than I learned in what four years ?Can you count too ten ?Read spot goes stop ?Jill goes there up that hill too get knocked up again ?
I'm a preschool teacher. I've had 4 panic attacks since I've started GSRP. Teaching is a rewarding job when you are not treated like a babysitter. No one respects teachers and it begins with parents.
Let Teachers teach. Stop the micromanaging, admins, district officials visits, and observations. Stop giving scripts to Teachers, they are professionals and know how to teach.
The pay, you ask? It’s all going to the people in the administration building…while teachers are paying out of their own pockets for basic supplies. The state of public education in this country is laughable at best. My heart goes out to anyone still teaching in our public schools.
Problem is expectation. Public does not mean 'best' or even 'adequate', it means bare bones basics. I really dislike how 'public education' has become the standard, so many kids I see in class should not be there and would thrive in many private school programs or homeschool programs. But their parents are either in default mode (its what you do, the government says so) or they lack the confidence to advocate for a higher standard for their kids through private schooling or homeschooling when it is an option.
@@allisonshaw9341 That is true, relatively speaking. Landing a private school job is generally far more competitive and the pay is at or around public school wages with fewer benefits as you say. Public school teaching jobs are, again being very general, more abundant and easier to hold onto with nice benefits but the quality of life and job satisfaction tends to be much lower.
My wife was working 50-60 hours a week and bot sleeping. Working weekends and over the summers for her program. All the issues mentioned she experienced. She was drained and our family was suffering. The administration was so maniacal and backwards that was the thing that really upset me as a spouse. She finally quit when the doctor told her that she had be no chance of improving her health and would get worse.
The disrespect is out of control. My kids love going to school and they love their teachers. My baby’s teacher says “Clarissa is so sweet and she always hugs me and wants to help” . I often feel bad because I can’t do as much as i want at home as i work full time and im in school full time but when those teachers need me, im there. Anything needed for the classroom, i try my best to do. It sucks because teachers really do deserve more, if the good teachers continue to leave and no one respects the profession enough to enter it, where does that leave society as a whole?
Every teacher I've met who has been in the profession for 20+ years has said if they could do it over they wouldn't be teacher. They've said that teaching has become progressively worse throughout the years and the only reason they're still here is for retirement/benefits/pay.
I was a teacher in California and I left it in 2010. Prior to teaching I was very active and athletic. No health problems. Always got a clean bill of health. During teaching my blood pressure started going up and I started having blood sugar issues. I constantly felt sick. After I quit teaching my health issues went away and I felt 200% better. Teaching was a nightmare. It isn't only problem students, but co-workers as well. Many of the teachers and admin staff are toxic people and create problems. I remember thinking "this is no better than working at a low wage job".
My daughter was a Special Ed teacher, she taught one year, then quit. There was a couple things happening in her classroom with an aide that wasn’t proper protocol. She spoke with the principal, the principal just shrugged her shoulders. She couldn’t handle the attitudes.
@@chaserofthelight484 the principals are highly paid and get decent benefits. Most are desk jockeys that are little bureaucrats. They don't care for teachers because they represent the school district.
I am a new teacher and I agree 💯 about the administrators. Honestly my job is almost enjoyable except for when I deal with the administrators. If I quit my job in teaching it wont be due to the students, it will be due to the Administrators. The admins I deal with always have a complaint, yet when you ask them what the solution, they CANNOT tell you. Also, I learned pretty quickly to avoid asking admins questions because they NEVER have a decent answer to BASIC questions they are paid to know. I am convinced they dont want me there and want me to disappear. To this day I have never had an admin, or ANYONE in the faculty who have reached out to me offering advice, tips, or where the cafeteria is which is weird because this is the first job n my adult life where someone did NOT offer help or advice to a new employee. Even at the WORST jobs I have had there is always someone available to help you figure stuff out. At every other job I have had there is some sort of manager or boss, and his job is to make sure ALL EMPLOYEES know what they are supposed to do and how to do it. It is LITERALLY their job description. At my school, it is the opposite. The people who are supposed to be your bosses (the admin) move heaven and earth to avoid answering questions and offering advice, but instead criticize you for ridiculous stuff even though they cannot tell you how to correct the problem. So yes, the problem with our education system starts at the top, and works its way down. The QUICKEST way to fix a school is to fire the Admin and work your way down.
I am a former inner city teacher who quit because the stress destroyed my health. The end of this video had me in tears. I feel the same as these teachers. I miss being in the classroom and wonder who will be left and how much harder it will get for them.
I taught for 11.5 years in public education and last school year was my last. I was exhausted mentally, physically, and emotionally. I couldn’t do another year. I decided to take a pay cut, I mean a PAY CUT, because I couldn’t endure another year. I am pursing another career.
I just retired from a school district. I wasn't even a teacher, and I couldn't wait to get out. I actually attended public school at the same campus where I worked my last 8 years until I retired. I worked in the private sector for the 39 years before that, and I can tell you the wage and benefit package was the best I'd ever had. But it wouldn't be enough for me to spend every day in a modern classroom.
I had 47 students in one class the year before I left teaching high school, and that class was the one that needed the most help. The workload was incredible. In addition, some in the administration at the time were not supportive when kids had behavior problems. The pay was not bad, but class size and respect were critical issues for me.
Capitalisim and the pursuit of cutting corners to save a buck has seriously poisoned so many institutions. Like education is not a place to cut corners!!
Horrid student behavior drove me away from public and charter schools. Mental health and physical safety is a big player in the decision to leave teaching. Parents should be worried.
Reasons that contributed to me leaving teach: --low pay --student cell phones difficulties --too much work every week --disrespectful admin --weird admin decisions (assigning me beginning and end of day classes even when I was part time, and other weird decisions) --boring meetings that aren't helpful --not enough training for how to work with kids with mild autism and adhd --a few behavioral situations with students where admin didn't do enough or favored a kid for being in a sport So many things I loved about teaching. It's a shame that so many of us who enjoyed teaching are leaving.
@@RebekahAPinto In my case that wasn't so much an issue. I had great coworkers for the most part. But I can understand how it could be part of some people's reasons for sure.
I have NEVER, NEVER understood why there is so little respect for teachers, truly! We would not have a functioning society without teachers!!!! Every American has had teachers in their lives teaching them the skills to succeed. I have only substituted, but I have seen what teachers go through just in the classroom alone, this doesn't even take into account all the red tape and behind the scenes prep and aggravation they endure. It is SHAMEFUL that pompous politicians won't move heaven and earth to improve their salaries and work conditions. They deserve the utmost respect and I have always given that to teachers. I was there for every parent/teacher conference, there for back to school night to meet the teachers personally, there to help in the classroom when volunteers were needed, etc. Our society needs to demand better. Better pay, respect, and supplies for our teachers equals better quality education for our students. Better school facilities equals better work places and better learning abilities. VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!!! Raise your voices because America is sinking faster than you realize. We are losing highly educated, quality teachers at an alarming rate that won't be easy to replace any time soon, meaning way fewer teachers for way too many kids....we will be far behind the rest of the world in the blink of an eye.
@@MamaTriedSolo 34 here. My high school teachers were lazy and unmotivated to work. I vividly remember my high school math teacher telling us that all he has to do is write the AIM on the board and he would get paid for teaching us. He did this for months. After writing the AIM on the board, he would just rant about his life. I still remember my social studies teacher being so lazy that he just read from a script and didn't check to see if anyone else listening or how the audience reacting to this method. None of them were motivated in teaching.
My daughter has 7 disabled children in her 4th grade classroom. Screaming on the floor, running around the room disrupting the learning are just a few of the problems she deals with and has No Support! One boy tripped her and laughed, luckily she wasn’t hurt. Parents need to know!! She quit today.
How the system expects teachers to be responsible for classroom discipline without giving them any authority to carry it out is madness. But the liberal mindset was that if you just mixed the bad kids together with the good kids, the bad kids would magically start acting good.
@@dee27206 They should. But now students with special needs are supposed to be in the least restrictive environment. Meaning if they are self sufficient, they go in the general education classrooms. Even though these special needs children have no idea what is going on in the grade level class. So now a general education teacher, is also a special education teacher that has to explain to typically developing students why the one student is displaying behaviors consistent with their disabilities.
@@LadyBGoode-gr8wmThe Parkland sho0ter was a "cluster kid", a kid with disabilities, being forced into mainstream repeatedly. Mainstream kids may be nice but are not accepting these students as their peers and the one with disabilities knows it and it just adds to their difficulties especially at a time in life where peers are important. I get it that it's hard to trust anyone to help now days so having a kid with disabilities you'd want to push them to be as mainstream as possible but so many times it's hurting more than it's helping. With the other identity situation, I think its a huge problem if schools are giving permanent physical changing meds that come with real stroke risks. Imagine taking your kid to the er and not being able to tell staff what medications your child is on, so many of those kids end up with regret. The bottom line is accepting one's self isn't acceptable or being taught. You have to dislike yourself so you can buy this to fix you
Its people in general. Karens for example make public work unbearable too. Companies always side with the rude customers instead of banning them. I can go up to mcdonalds workers berate them, get a free sandwhich, a coupon and be back the next day. In an ideal world i would be refused service and trespassed. How many more karens you think i will see going forward once that becomes the norm?
I am retired from a manufacturing industry since 2010. I have never been a teacher. I have no dog in this fight. But I have been a voluntary math tutor since 1968. After retiring, I did some substitute teaching for a couple years. I was shocked at what a teacher has to go through! While I support MUCH greater teacher pay, I also recognize the problem is at home. The students are not taught basic respect, discipline or truthfulness at home, so why would we expect it from them in the classroom? I remember a program at a school whereby a parent of a student being disciplined for infractions such as skipping class, gross disrespect of the teacher or other students, was required to attend their child's classes for one week. (this was court ordered). The parents were horrified to see what went on in the classroom (their child was normally an angel while the parent was there), but by other students. I quit tutoring after being physically assaulted by a parent with a weapon, because I required their child (7th grade) to be on time and prepared to work. Keep in mind, I was a volunteer. No charge to the family. No pay to me. It was free. (I was 78 years old at that time). When I reported the assault to the administration, the person just sighed and thanked me for my service (of more than18 years to that school) and told me their hands were tied. I reported the assault to the police, they told me their caseload was too heavy to really do anything. The answer to the problem lies with the home.
We lost our schools when we let parents start dictating the curriculum (Parents Rights). When we started entertaining old people blathering in meetings and demanding "THE LORD" back into schools. Older people who think "in 1950 I was not allowed to wear PANTS to school as a girl" means jack shit in the modern world when it comes to some of the ridiculous dress code rules. Note I support realistic rules, as a former teenage boy though? BRA STRAPS didnt distract me. Shorts above the knee did not distract me. Tank Tops did not distract me. Know why most Asian nations are eclipsing us in education. They are not 9-3, just in case older students "want to get a JOB after school too!". They dont have a week off to visit family for Christmas and Easter. Long summer breaks to "Get a job" or "enjoy the nice weather and play sports outside". The US does all of that.
We lost our schools (and, eventually, our society) because of the lower-class families that are barely making it and have to steal to eat. They instill that into their Blax children.
@@keepingitkianatural When USA schools functioned, the certainty of failure as a result of not learning caused learning, not crime. Now, we can dump math, discuss DEI instead, and enjoy massive increases in crime.
I am a California Substitute Teacher with 22 years of experience. I agree with your interviewed teachers 100% about the problems in the classroom. I deal with it everyday working for a chartered public school in Palmdale, Ca.
I have 2 Texas teachers in my family who recently quit. The main reasons - bad kids with bad parents and admin that didn’t support them. Both said the pay wasn’t the main issue. I also have a son who graduated in 2021 and some of the stories he’s told me… I just don’t understand why some kids (not all of course) are so bad and why their parents won’t do anything about it.
Read “The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure” by Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff. It’s not the whole story, but it is a big part of it
I agree. If I could never deal with parents my job be a little nicer. Most parents are great but it only takes a couple who complain and it's usually the kids you work hardest with
Yep your right not about the money. my daughter is a teacher. She walked out the 1st year, because of really bad kids. The 2nd year she moved to a different area, and loved it the kids were better.
This starts with public figures modeling respect to teachers. Both parents and their children will learn how to respect teachers when they see "important" people respecting teachers. Not before. Everyone watches how others are treated and forms their on view to respect that person or not. - public school teacher in a dedicated school for children on the Autism Spectrum.
I am a Secondary school teacher in Australia. I can relate to every single thing that was said. Even here, we have students attacking staff, long lists of administrative tasks to complete, behavioural issues with students, absenteeism issues, a changing curriculum that hasn't taken into account the large amount of lost knowledge during remote learning and applying pressure to keep the students up with the curriculum and complaints and abuse by parents when their children aren't at national reading levels.
You have to have a juvenile detention system (jail) and staff needs to use laws on assault to put the criminals where they belong and do it early in the year. They can go to class in jail where there are big, friendly guards who specialize in their kind. They'll get three good meals a day, a clean orange suit, and a chance to sleep. There's always a group that needs that kind of special attention.
@@timtrewyn453 OR perhaps parents should do their job and raise them to respect authority, be responsible for themselves and their equipment, be punctual and respect other people. My parents did this, and there was never the major issues with student behaviour when I went to school.
@@traceyholt8223 and maybe to facilitate parents to do that stuff, we should REMOVE THE RULING BLOODLINES FROM THE PLANET and stop attacking fellow slaves as the main target!
What these teachers are saying is so true. So many parents expect teachers to do miracles with their kids but parents need to learn to be parents themselves. Many classrooms are like Behavioral Units. Many schools are like Daycares for parents cuz they dont wantvto deal with their kids.
How does a single mom teach her kid(s) to be respectful when her own single mom never taught her. The only qualification many of these moms have is that they didn't get an abortion after their one night stand.
Parents have an extremely difficult time as children are coming home with dangers and extreme political views gained from the leftist political education they receive at school, such as gender theory, and social justice. My young child came home thinking it was okay to kill police officers for just minding their business and sitting in a police car having lunch. My daughter has difficulty writing a sentence but knows exactly who George Floyd is and supports liberation theology aligned to the Black Panthers. In addition, to the fact that schools are changing the gender of children without notifying parents and administering drugs. Children are even denied a name, as they are called by pronouns. Can there be anything more destabilizing for a child to be nameless, nothing more than a collective group of he, she, them and theys. I am sure all these issues are negatively impacting family dynamics and resulting in children acting out. Teachers are nothing more than useful idiots who are being used to destroy Western culture. Then you have Affirming groups/spaces where children are segregated into spaces based on race and labeled as white oppressors or the oppressed based on race and sexuality. In my state, 5 year old are coming home from school absolutely traumatized, stating that they don't want to be white and that all white people are bad. I called the state equity office to report the schools heavy handed implementation of its equity program, which was emotionally harming young children and the state employee said "Don't you think white children should feel the same pain as black children." So, you teachers you are hurting children. The only sympathy I have for teachers is that they too are victims of teachers colleges. Go look up the paper by Susan E. Livingston about liberating elite children in private schools. This woman teaches at teachers colleges.
@@maxalberts2003 do you think the Lord endorses abortion?? Remember God's opinion is the only one that counts. There won't be any excuses with Him. God loves you.
I am an elementary public school teacher. The fact that kids can’t get held bad is extremely frustrating and discouraging for a teacher. I’d never want a kid to get held back, however there are kids who are so far below grade level and they just get passed through. So they will continue to be below grade level for many grades to come. It’s frustrating as a teacher because I know, as the children’s teacher, where they need help but there is only so much I can do at school. Parents are also a huge part of the problem because when you tell parents their kids are behind, they literally do nothing or don’t care. Why you wouldn’t want your kid to do better baffles me. And trying to get services for kids can be tricky, especially when parents can’t return signed documents or school or even check their kid’s backpack to look at their school work. Parents have become extremely uninterested and involved. Also, another major part of the problem is No Child Left Behind. Worst thing to happen to public education. Schools focus solely on test scores, which is garbage. It doesn’t show their progress at all. It is one small piece to the puzzle.
"But the research says..." I hear that so much, but the paragraphs of information administrators follow that statement with boil down to "...holding them back does not matter and does not improve outcomes so suck it up and just move them on and try not to let it impact your classroom any more negatively than it must"
Community college professor in Ontario, Canada here. Learning any subject is like building a house; without a solid foundation, the rest of the house will be shaky at best. Johnny can’t add, subtract, multiply, or divide, but he gets pushed through anyway. Johnny has no hope of learning algebra, trig, logarithms, or calculus, and he will just be wasting the teachers’ time at those levels. Sometimes, holding a kid back is the only way! Parents also play a huge role in their kids’ development. From experience, I have to conclude that on the whole, solidly middle class parents tend to raise the most scholars. Many of them sincerely want their kids to go further in life than they did, and with solid 9 to 5 jobs, many have (or find) the time to read to their kids, help them with their homework, and generally help them develop. The very poor parents are often that way because they never became educated themselves, and consequently do not see the value of education (there are, of course, exceptions). The very rich and successful parents, on the other hand, are often too busy making more money and socializing to spend much time with their kids. Education starts in the home.
I agree that parents are a problem, but I would like to point out that parents are also under horrible levels of stress. Most working people are barely getting by with both parents working full time or working several jobs just to make ends meet. They literally have zero time to spend helping their kids with school. There's a reason birth rates are dropping in the US. Just like they say kids behaving badly are going through a bad time, parents behaving badly are going through bad times.
Gee, I thought this huge conservative red state with abbott at the helm was a far better place to send your kids to school and find great teaching opportunities without the loud cry and criticism of liberal ideology of the blue states like California?
I completed my MSEd in 2017 in California. I was shocked by the culture in the school of education. We were being told explicitly, over and over, that we were functionally martyrs. That we were so noble for going into a systematically abusive relationship for the greater good. Nobody was questioning the concept that teachers deserve a living wage, or respect.
Yeah, they tell you..."it's what you signed up for." So if no one signs up for it then what?? Does that mean you will change the environment then?? What are we talking about?! Teachers need to strike across the nation. I'm telling y'all.
Expecting 30 kids from 30 different households to respect you is asking for you to be a martyr because it’s almost impossible in this day and age. Children are being raised by their electronics, not their parents. Parents are out working because majority are facing the same inflation and low wages as yourself. Some parents have to work 14 hour shifts because they’re single and renting a 2 bedroom apartment that’s 1k sq ft for $1300 on average. Teachers are second parents and the life of a parent is self sacrifice.
@@1_star_reviews couldn't agree more. Either do away with the whole teacher system or increase living wages and provide more support to the teachers. Make sure it gets to the teachers.
And you bought it all…hook, line, and sinker. Teachers are groomed by the liberal teachers’ union agenda machine to be professional victims and “heroes” all at the same time. “Common Good”…pffft…what an obvious communist phrase…And the teachers cling onto it and parade around with it, believe me. They have their eyes on all those summers off, and that big fat guaranteed pension. Yet when you sit down with them with a piece of paper and pencil and actually write out what they are earning vs. how many hours they work over the course of a typical career, with the pension and benefits they receive, they still moan that they “aren’t paid enough”. Yes, you have to work decades to get the full payout, and yes, YOU WENT IN KNOWING THAT! And these are people teaching our kids!!!
Parents these days want to be friends with their children. My parents raised my older sister with so much love but they also set boundaries for us. One day when I was angry at my mother I said something to her that she did not like at all. She gave me that "Have you lost your mind" look and without hesitating said, "Who do you think you're talking to because I know it's not me. You may talk that way to your friends but I'm not your friend and we aren't equals. I'm your mother and you have crossed a boundary that is unacceptable and don't you EVER forget that". I sincerely apologized to her and she immediately forgave me. I was hurt because of how I disrespected her. I was between the ages of 11 and 12 and that was a life lesson I've never forgotten.
My folks made it crystal clear they were our parents, not our friends. No explanation was needed because that's the way it was, non-negotiable. Period. I raised my kids the same way. Our kids knew we supported our school and teachers*...and if they got in trouble at school, they knew they were in trouble at home, too. Non-negotiable. *Granted, our school system doesn't have whack-jobs trying to push their religion bs, etc into our schools. We have good teachers and school system here...that makes a huge difference, right there.
Ought to have to go to parent school and pass a test before becoming a parent and that statement, "You will not disrespect me. I am not your friend. I am your mother." Required learning
I found the traditional school setting to be toxic for the students and the teachers. I became fed up with the state of public education and began homeschooling my three kids. The problem was how do I work to support my family and provide the quality education my kids need and deserve? I found a few other families who felt the same and we went in together to hire a private certified teacher to homeschool our kids together. This teacher left the traditional classroom for many of the reasons mentioned in this video. This form of education I have chosen for my family is not free, we sacrifice to make it possible but it has been the best experience for our family and my kids are doing exceptional academically, socially, and emotionally. I now help other families who feel the same about the traditional education their kids are receiving find a compassionate and passionate, highly qualified certified teacher to provide a personalized and customizable education for their children. Until massive changes take place in the traditional education system, more and more teachers and families will continue to seek alternatives
I tell my homeschooling family members, "Do the boys know they are boys and the girls know they are girls? Are they learning to read? Yes, so you are miles ahead of public school."
I want to learn how to get certified for private homeschooling. My daughter will be in school here in a few yrs and though I have a bachelors in education I don't know much about alternatives.
"Teaching is a profession as important as law or medicine; all I can think is that teachers, parents - and children - are human beings, and as human beings we are hurting and need to innovate actions to resolve what is facing all of us in the communities-at-large, here, in the United States."
Thank you for this. I have been teaching for 19 years. My anxiety has gotten bad and I've been sick so much these past two years due to stress. I have two years until retirement but I do not think I'll make it. I feel like I am digging my own grave. Everything you said rings true to me. Thank you again.
You can make if you can find a job slightly different maybe make your own. Coaching new teachers. Continuing ed on campus for teachers. Admin. Getting federal funding for the district for teacher training is a full time job if they don't have that position offer to do it but only for teacher pay and as long as it does not interfere with your retirement. Some positions are not on that track, Look around. God bless you He keeps you lean on Him.
In part, big or small, it could be because you're "getting short". Something a lot of veterans feel when their tours of duty get closer to ending. Kind of like having pre PTSD. Hang in there! 💪
I lasted 17 years and finally quit after I started getting stress related diseases. Waking up with Bell's Palsy, thinking I was having a stroke, was the final straw. Quitting was hard but now I see it as the best thing I've ever done. I am SO MUCH happier and healthier now. I didn't realize how unhappy and sick I was when I was still there. I miss the kids so much but I would have eventually died. Best of luck to you.
I only taught 1 semester as a Science Teacher in Dallas ISD. Afterwards, I decided to quit forever. I would rather make a 6 month mistake rather than a 6 year mistake. I cannot speak for the entire teaching profession, nor for all of DISD because the types of students you will get varies TREMENDOUSLY from school to school. For me personally, it was NOT THE STUDENTS. I taught 110 students over 6 classes. At my particular high school it was 82% Hispanic, 12% Black, 2% White and 4% Other. Of the 6 classes I taught, only ONE of the classes was a circus with severely bad behavior. The other 5 classes were not terrible, but not great either. However, it is my understanding that there are some HORRIFICALLY BEHAVED kids in other DISD Schools so the caliber of student can vary IMMENSELY. The #1 reason I quit was Administration. For me personally, I GAVE MY HEART & SOUL INTO TEACHING! I was literally the FIRST teacher on campus EVERY SINGLE DAY and arrived 2 hours BEFORE CLASSES begun. I moved heaven & earth to make sure I had the BEST POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS in DALLAS ISD!!! No, I did not say “one of the best powerpoint presentations in DISD” or “pretty darn good for DISD”… I said “BEST POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS in DISD!” Yes, I am aware there are 10,000 teachers in DISD, so yes, I understand that is a pretty bold statement to make. Having said that you should know that I have over a DECADE’s worth of experience in Web Development which required at least HALF of my time on the CONTENT SIDE, while the other half was dedicated to SEO, database Management (Postgres & MySQL), website management, coding (Python/Django, html/css and Server Administration through the Google Cloud Platform & Digital Ocean. On the content side, I am EXCELLENT with most of the Adobe Creative Cloud Apps, as well as Final Cut Pro/Adobe After Effects. I also personally own $10,000+ in plugins as well as professional media content in the form of videos, images, and stock music… So yes, I feel pretty comfortable making the bold assertion that I offered the BEST CONTENT DALLAS ISD HAS EVER SEEN! Given my background, experience, and training I would HOPE SO! Although I have never actually worked for any media company, I can guarantee I could run circles around their media guys. So it was a BREATHTAKING moment of insanity when I had a Dallas ISD Administrator tell me that “fancy Powerpoint Presentations don’t impress us”. Yeah, he actually said that… Let that sink in… Funny thing is that 93% of all communication is non-verbal, but according to DISD the visuals dont matter. Ok go figure. Also, this same Disd Administrator conducted 3 formal observations of me. The first observation he basically said i did a good job. But the last two formal observations he conducted basically said I was a horrible teacher… But there was a FUNDAMENTAL problem with his last two observations he did of me…and you will not believe the answer!!! NOT A SINGLE STUDENT IN THE LAST TWO FORMAL OBSERVATIONS SPOKE ENGLISH!!! Let that sink in for a few moments… I am NOT alleging that my students spoke BAD ENGLISH. I am not saying my students could not understand 25% of what I was saying. I am saying my students understood 0 ⭕️🚫 English!!! (Of those that attended the last 2 formal observations!!! In fact, my students LITERALLY could not raise a hand to ask to use the bathroom, and if you have ever taught any type of school, as a teacher you know thats a pretty big deal!!! And it gets WORSE!!! It turns out I speak a little bit of Spanish, not great but passable. I am not bilingual but my Spanish is passable for our purposes. So during the 2nd formal Observation, i taught the entire class in Spanish. After the class I had a Zoom meeting with him, and he complains to me that I taught the class in Spanish even though I am not certified to speak Spanish in my classroom. Ok I did not know about that rule. Maybe there is some rhyme or reason to that rule. So be it. But take a wild guess as to what his NEXT COMPLAINT WAS… Wait for it…this is a good one… His next question, I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP OR EXAGGERATING was: “WHY ARE YOU NOT ASKING MORE QUESTIONS FROM YOUR STUDENTS???” I was stunned… My brain began to short-circuit… I was absolutely confused into silence for several seconds… Then I asked him, “Wait, are you asking me why I am not asking them questions IN ENGLISH, when you and I know THEY SPEAK LITERALLY NO ENGLISH???” All of a sudden, he goes completely silent, thinks about it… And then changes the subject… The level of incompetence literally scrambled my brains. I was literally wondering if this guy was living on ANOTHER PLANET. As he began talking, it felt like I was living on Planet Earth and this DISD Administrator was living in another galaxy far far far away… Literally Millions of Light Years away spanning well over the span of the human civilization, earth, the Solar System, and perhaps predating the Big Bang Theory. And as if that wasnt bad enough, it HAPPENED AGAIN!!! For my 3rd Formal Observation none of my students spoke English. And again, I got another horrible review. And what was his #1 complaint??? “…not enough feedback mechanisms being used in class…” as per his report. Let me translate that for you: “Not asking enough Formative Questions in ENGLISH, the very language they DO NOT KNOW…” Yeah, that happened!!! All of it… WITHOUT EXAGGERATION!!! It has been my experience in life if someone is telling you about something and you get confused during the conversation because their story does not make sense, it contains a lot of contradicting facts, and shows ZERO LOGIC… that person is LYING to you 9/10. That one time when they were telling you the truth was when they were seriously inebriated. FURTHERMORE… When you are dealing with someone one on one and NOTHING they do makes sense at all… Literally EVERYTHING they do is BIZARRE… Literally EVERYTHING they do is insane… Every time YOU TRY TO PLACE YOURSELF IN THEIR SHOES and try to understand their actions, in-actions, and perspective, IT STILL MAKES NO SENSE… You are either being: 1.) Scammed 2.) Lied to 3.) Being De-Frauded 4.) Treated in BAD FAITH & UNFAIR DEALING or 5.) Insert Profanity here. That is the sum of my entire experience with Dallas ISD. And it is without embellishment, exaggeration, falsehoods, or inaccuracies of any kind. I even have the documentation to prove it.
I was a classroom teacher in California (H.S.) & the worst aspect of the job wasn't the students or their parents but the administrators who were more interested in becoming superintendent than supporting their staff. These people know better but instead choose to placate parents at the expense of teachers. To add, I wouldn't teach in this nation if they paid me a million USD per year.
The best teachers inheriting the kids with the behavior issues resonated. My brother was an exceptional math and science teacher in North Texas for middle school. The horrible behavior of the students and their parents paired with the school administration siding with the parents to keep the peace caused him to leave. He is now a border patrol officer dealing with the nightmare at the border and is very content with his change. He said he'd do it again in heartbeat even seeing what's happening down there. Our society is very culpable and the education system needs a total overhaul.
You think? I thought it was one of those things that she thought sounded profound, but really kind of isn't. I mean, is anyone trying to get rid of teachers? What's the point exactly? To extend her thought, a teacher can't teach unless someone builds a school, or builds roads to get there, or dug ditches so there would be proper flood control for those roads, or built a car or a subway so they could get there, or wrote the books they use or built desks and chalkboards or pencils or computers, etc, etc, etc. I don't know, I feel like you could say something like that about everything. Ditch diggers for the win!
Govt want schoolscto continue to fail. Admin bloat, control of curriculum based on culture issues. Kids can't read but they sure see how different their classmates might look and they aren't being taught to value themselves as well as others differences. School has been dumbed down. Govt needs to be relatively removed from school (despite public schools being govt entities).
Govt. let’s appoint a task force to determine why teachers are quitting. There will be very few teachers on this task force Teachers: there’s a task force? No one asked me any questions. Govt : the task force results are in: teachers want specialty license plates! No actions needed on our part! Go vouchers! Teachers: we quit
A number of years ago, my friend was bringing her students inside from recess when two nine-year-old boys knocked her down then commenced kicking and punching her. When calling for help didn't work, she swore at the two boys who were then shocked into quitting the assault. She suffered various sprains and bruises all over her body. The support she got from the Alberta, Canada school district was though she had sworn at her attackers, out of the goodness of their heart, they would allow her to keep her job but at another school. As for the boys, nothing happened, not even a written warning or a week's suspension. My friend took an early retirement a couple of months later.
The teacher who was shot by a 6 year old in Newport News, VA says all you need to know about how school districts, school administrators, the state, parents, and the kid who shot her feel about teachers. It is tragic on all levels.
Just because it's ironic doesn't mean it's not true :3 Similar to the Dunning-Kruger effect, those that are useless (and have useless jobs), are not only blissfully unaware of how useless they are, but they actually think so highly of themselves.
in middle school, i remember my music teacher looked like she was about to explode everyday from the abysmal behavior that my classmates were constantly engaging in. she would break down constantly and scream at us exasperatedly. one day in college i recognized her in the copy room. i never seen her more alive and happy. she didnt recognize me at all though so i pretended like i didnt know her and we just briefly had a short exchange before she went back to her desk. i was shocked. she looked like a different person. once i quit being a teacher myself, i thought back at that exchange and it never dawned on me deeper than in that moment that i finally understood just how bad it is. its probably good that she didn't recognize me because it mightve retraumatized her to remember those days.
@@wafflekiller1727Nah she probably didn't. Ever heard of puberty? I look completely different in highschool than I did in middle and elementary. I don't think anyone looks the same they did as a kid.
Wow... Even as a sophmore in high school in 1990 I realized the newer generations did not have the same respect for teachers that we were raised to have for them. The moment when a freshman hit the vice-principle in the face with a twinkie. Teachers you are still appreciated I myself am grateful for my teachers and all I was taught. I certainly wasn't an angel but I did learn. A shame some had to quit because it seems now more than ever you are needed. There are still kids who come to school to learn. Please keep putting pressure on the state to get the pay and respect you deserve. Bless You and God Bless Texas...
America is falling apart and we're all freaking out. Parents are clueless/disengaged -- or engaged in dysfunctional ways, i.e., defending their little monsters' behavior and blame-gaming teachers. I tell everyone to watch the 2011 version of _Jane Eyre_ where you first see the protagonist Jane as a girl in a school that was too harsh and strict, but then grown-up Jane as a teacher of poor village girls who say yes and no ma'am and treat education as a gift. Yes, there was strife and conflict back then, but society had structure. We've lost all structure, all sense of decency. Everyone is gaming the system. BTW, it has to be the 2011 version with Mia Wasikowska.
I am a retired Texas teacher with 30 years of experience. I am so sorry qualified and caring teachers like yourselves felt forced to quit. Our students need teachers like you to care and educate them. It breaks my heart to hear these stories. I am also sorry you feel degraded by parents, the school districts, and politicians. They forget you are the back bone of their profession. I am worried about the future of education in our nation.
🎯 people need to be careful about the focus on $. My wife works in an area where a teacher with over 10 years experience makes a hundred grand a year. It hasn’t stopped teachers quitting after a few years. Student behavior without consequence, disrespect from parents and students, increasing comp,ex classrooms with multiple needs where teachers are expected to plan for each need each lesson, etc. etc. the simple reality is that there’s easier and less stressful ways of making a living.
Easier ways to make a living, but school is required. A teacher in each classroom is required. Schools have a lot of time off. .I think that is why teachers take a teacher job.
it may seem to the public that teachers have a lot of time off, but they really don't. The districts require large amount of work on the teachers which causes them to use their own time to prepare for lessons, do paperwork, and whatever else is required. That is why teachers are leaving. The pay may be good, but the work is exhausting.
Not to mention that there is a political party that wants to end PUBLIC education and make education private and at a cost… All 11 or 12 states that allow vouchers have seen in increase in school tuitions and the vouchers are being used by rich people….
I live in Massachusetts. My town has an average teacher salary of $94k. Yes, it's on the coast but it's not a posh area. We're like in the top 40% of schools in the state. Massachusetts consistently has the best education in the nation, on par with anywhere in the world. THE MONEY MATTERS.
I love how Gov Abbot created a bureaucratic task force to find out why teachers are leaving, and then promptly did nothing with it. He literally could’ve just googled “Why are teachers leaving the classroom.” And that would’ve given him everything he needed to know.
I don't think that Abbott cares at all, like not in the least. Maybe he is going to implement Prager U or something, but there's no way in hell that Abbott is going to fix anything with the school system in the state of Texas.
In Texas and Florida (for just 2 states...), the governors Absolutely Refuse to respect the teachers and many, many, many others. Not "can't"...won't.@@cacao123451
He didn’t just do nothing about it, he is actively trying to make it worse. He’s trying to copy the private school voucher garbage that Arizona started that actively hurt their public school teachers. Abbot hates public education because of general right wing derangement towards anything they deem “woke”. He is an evil man
@@cacao123451he can absolutely help with increasing their pay, increasing their pensions, reducing work hours, increasing staff to provide support to teachers, increase staff to provide more direct guidance to students, increase resources at the school, etc, etc. Honestly, what's wrong with you? You make it sound like he's powerless when he was elected to be the person with the power to change things.
I 1000% agree with you.. I have 21 students no help and they're behavioral and extremely low academically. I've been hurt 3x.. Im exhausted daily, behaviors out of control...There's no joy in teaching what little is being done bc of behaviors!
As a former preschool teacher (with a bachelors in child development), I agree with what these teachers said and felt. If our nation is to improve we as a nation better take care of all our teachers. Which includes Preschool to University Professors. Than pay them above poverty level.
I cried everyday on the way to or from school. I had to get a restraining order against a violent parent. It's just not worth doing when it hurts your physical and mental health.
What!????? Im so sorry !! I bet that student was horrible too. Parent here------ but i totally agree with you! I made my child apologize to a couple of her teachers. I think yall should be making near as much as Drs cause yall are teaching!!!!!! Its insane. I finally had to homeschool my 16 yrold. Between the horrible teachers and the bullies , i was scared for my daughter,for her mental health. The ones that needed help didn't get it, like her. Falling through the cracks ! Its insanity ,the entitlement of children now!!!!
