Why I Quit Teaching (Angry Version) 

All your comments resonate deeply with me...I was able to retire last May after 27 years of teaching. It became a horrible system that I no longer felt I had any part in. Gaslighting, stupid district decisions, favoritism on the part of admin, students less and less interested in any curriculum and more interested in their phones and games...I was done.

11 years in teaching and I never felt like I was really valued by the education system. Every year they have a new way to show passive-aggressive messages about how we are not doing enough. Every year they break us down to think that we're not as effective. Every year they take away our creativity. Every year they remind us how they don't trust us but we are responsible for everything. Every year we lose ourselves to our jobs that don't give us anything to look forward to.

I said nearly the same exact thing before I left in January. Teachers are not the problem. The system is broken and leadership could care less or is too clueless to figure out how to fix it. Hang in there.

If I'd been a teacher and seen the gratitude during the pandemic only to be thrown under the bus mere _months later,_ they'd have *never* seen me again.

I'm in Europe but everything you're talking about feels really familiar, I also quit teaching last year. We have a huge shortage of teachers, a lot of programs to become teachers to fill the positions and so on. It was the tipping point for me when my city came up with bonuses for teachers who are new, haven't been teaching in the city for a year or relocated from other cities. These bonuses are given for one year, monthly, and they're roughly 1/3 of a teacher's salary. Excuse me, what about the rest of us who have been and are still working??? It was such a slap in the face and I said I'm done. No regrets about my decision.

Most administrators are former teachers and know full well how stressful it is! But somehow they get caught up in the power and demands on them, and lose their empathy for the teachers. Instead, they make the stress way worse for the teachers oftentimes. I went into instructional coaching when my son was a toddler because of the stress, and really tried to make things easier for the teachers, but they assumed I was there to police them. I look back on my teaching career and the best part was early on before Society went to hell

I am older than you but this has to be my last year teaching. Everything you said is so true. I am nervous because I'm in my '50s but the stress and low pay does not equate with the disrespect and everything else. Everything you said is so true. Wishing you the best on your journey.

I have been an agriculture education teacher 9-12 for 26 years. We get paid as administrators but the stress is so bad that I have already had a heart attack (widow maker) at age 49. I'm poppin pills from the doctor all day long to keep my sanity, all just to have health insurance. Screw this, I gotta have a change. Good on you for making a great decision!

"The system is NOT set up for our sucess.' So true. 27 years in, and I left end of school year 2023.

I just dont understand how so many well educated ppl (not just in teaching but everywhere) can see, acknowledge, and complain about all the systemic issues, but yet at the same time, seemingly, no adult wants to actually DO anything about it?! At this point in life I am so confused by the human race, none of what we are dong makes ANY sense to me. When the solutions seem to be so easy, accessible, and better. We are actively working against ourselves. Since the pandemic and peoples absolutely insane responses to it, its made me realize that we have reached a point in our society where ppl are basically suicidal. Why do I say that? Its based on the behaviour (not the words) of what ppl from the age of 25-95 are doing. Self sabotaging harmful ignorant behaviour in an era where we have the most access to knowledge than ever before. Humans are CHOOSING this. That's the only conclusion I could come to since the pandemic.

It's relatively similar in the UK too. To top off the disregard from the Government (we are currently striking), behaviour across the country within schools is absolutely abhorrent (a side effect of increasing poverty, lack of parental engagement, and cultural shifts). Teaching has become so much harder and many of us are burning out.

Thank you for and all the teachers out there. 👏👏👏👏

Thank you for sharing this. I can relate to what you were sharing. I was a teacher for middle school and it was rough. I don’t feel like the training I needed was adequate for what I was kind of thrown into. Also my background was not in education but I have subbed for some years now.

22:27 This is exactly what teaching is today. If you don't want to be treated this way, don't become a teacher. If this lady is being treated terribly and has finally decided to speak out to stop this esuba, you can trust it is really bad and systemic. "We spent years being gaslit, and bullied, and frankly abused into our jobs. Just tough it out for the kids...We are trained professionals...Stop getting in the way of that because you're actually creating the bigger problem." Principals/Admin, are you listening?

$30k with a master's degree. Wow. I'm so sorry. That is beyond insulting.😢 What state are you in? I've always thought to myself that if teaching were a male-dominated field, you would never see this type of substandard pay or working conditions. Men simply would not put up with it.

I feel your pain and anger because I am an empath for one and a teacher too and I also am angry because administrators have put me down a lot instead of lifting me up! Education has been in a downward spiral I have been teaching for 12 years but last year I was a substitute. I also don't know what to do if I dont' teach. Don't teach on the islands perhaps because it's very tough and i need to move back to the mainland. And I also have a lot of angry too. Thanks for being genuine and unapologetic... I love to see people unafraid to express true heart! I'm sorry that you have to go through this and that we all do in this field.. Big hugs!

I am surprised they let you back after quitting. Typically they don’t let you back in. Good luck to you on your new journey.

I love and appreciate you Human Sister. Thank you for caring and speaking truth. All will turn around. People like you, and me, and thousands of others will make it so. Stay the course serving in new capacities that will effect the change!

Thank you. This was really good to hear. I wish I and everyone understood what teachers experienced. This video is a truly great help. In response to your brave and excellent video, I hope we as a society answer you and other teachers by making changes. I've heard standardized testing is wrongheaded but I don't know what it is really. If you make another video (and you certainly don't need to! you've already done a great service as a teacher and again in this video that you made; and you have inspired me to find out more about it ), or if any other teachers who make a video read this, I believe I and others have a lot to learn about how the standardized testing gets in the way. It might help me and others to hear perhaps a story about how the standardized testing disserved a child. Or to hear how it got in the way of a teacher's creativity and insight that could have benefitted a child. Or if it made kids nervous and if that made learning less appealing and less effective. You really helped me and us with this video. Best wishes.

You just articulated all my thoughts and more importantly proved we have more in common than we don’t

My well seasoned Sped Ed teacher friend was replaced in middle of school year by a student teacher that her Principal manipulated into the situation.It is unethical and illegal to allow a student teacher to do that but Principals can get away with anything.

Preach girl! 👏🏼 you hit it on the nail! You know how many “teachers” we had that weren’t certified Nor even have a DEGREE?! Ya. Hot mess. I quit this year after 9 years. It hasn’t hit me yet bc it’s summer, but when school starts back it’s going to feel amazing to not have to go and sit through PD days and all that comes with it. This is the kind of video I Want to do, because I went through some sh*t….but afraid to do it because I worked with so many petty people who loved screen shotting things and snitching, that I’m sure Someone will see it and gripe about it.

America is a unique country in that there is no collective sense of self-reflexivity, which is why it doesn’t learn from its mistakes. The privatization of education (charter schools), unavailable parents, cowardly administrators, and an inability to curb obsessive csmartphone usage are all signals that education in the country has entered its death spiral. I have no doubt that most districts will pivot to online-only models that might offer drop-in tutoring/ babysitting within a decade. We’re fucked

Let's stop beating around the bush...Teacher's have been turned into high price/disrespected (by all) BABY SISTERS!!

I’m starting to think, this is no longer a coincidence. I wonder if the teachers leaving in masses, the awful breakdown we’re seeing in our schools; society, is being done deliberately. It’s far fetched , I know, but what if they’re making it so unbearable for both the students, and parents, for a way bigger picture.

Mega props to you for speaking about it.

mad respect for you!

Fantastic content! I appreciate how you've provided concrete examples of mistakes and offered practical solutions. Your advice will undoubtedly help teachers navigate the job market outside of education more effectively. Well done!

Thank you for sharing.

I've worked in a school where the demographics, etc. are exactly as you've described and you are exactly right. I put my all in and all I was left with was being psychologically traumatized by being expected to have the kids perform academically like the kids in the richest parts of the city.

the pay teachers receive is blasphemous. When you consider daycare and the AMOUNT people pay for that, and then to top it off with the children receiving an education at the same time as that. Teachers should be one of the highest paid professions. Teachers create the next generation, who go on to be well-educated people of the society we live in, and to say they deserve a measly 30k?? no, its infuriating.

I taught for 25 years. It too was my calling. As the Business Model of Education (Thanks to Billy G.) steamrolled into my district (around 2012-13) schools became part of the profits over people paradigm. Profits measured in data points and test scores leading to increased federal and state gravy-trains. My exit strategy was kidney disease, In a sane world I should not have wanted to prefer dialysis to what "teaching" had turned into.! When I started I could be creative in my lesson designs and management plans. By the time I left the classroom the entire curriculum was trending into a "Common Core" technology derived "Everybody teaches the SAME thing at the same time NO MATTER WHAT" system. The kids were awesome even if wild and impulsive at times. I totally blame power-hungry administrators for buying into, forcing and supporting this insanity. One trick of administration was to divide and conquer; they turned the teachers against each other. There was no caring community of educators. I saw teachers anxious and eager to help the administration so they wouldn't be the ones "in trouble". A sick sad system that only harms our kids in so many ways. My students took like 4-5 standardized tests every year. They HATED it! I totally agree with everything you say in this video!

What you have said feels like I am speaking - kelp speaking your truth - keep speaking our truth as educators - it may well be the educators leaving telling our stories and bringing light into the very broken system ..... and maybe for the sake of not only the children but our entire country it gets fixed .

I have a lot of respect for your profession and also for your decision to leave. It is a great lost to the school and to the country as a whole. Teachers are not replaceable nor are they simply just a standing figure in class. The system is broken. Feel the anger to the fullest but don’t let it eat you up. Big hugs to you.❤

You are 100 PERCENT ON POINT

I keep coming across these videos from burnt out frustrated teachers, talking about how nothing is changing. I believe you. What you describe sounds exactly like what I experienced in school decades ago. It also makes me intensely grateful for my daughter's school. They are changing. They've changed. From the way they handle discipline, to the homework they send home, it's all completely different from what I experienced and what you're describing. I think I got really lucky, because I didn't have the option of sending my daughter anywhere else. I don't know what it would take to have other schools and districts handle things the way they are, but I fear that we're going to lose a lot of good teachers from field before things get better.

"I'm really angry. I know I'm smiling because my anger makes me uncomfortable. But I'm so angry..." This statement alone tells me that you are good with kids and I wish for more people to develop this kind of simple understanding of themselves (their emotions and how they manifest outwardly) AND how to communicate it so plainly. I wish also for you to find success in your future endeavors, you seem like a really good person doing good things for the right reasons.

I love how you brought up the fact that lack of sleep and mental health with the extra unforeseen circumstances and extra hats, we cannot teach at 100%.

which grades and subjects have you taught?

I like when you said kids are learning to be people. ❤

Thank you for teaching our children.

I'm still in. More and more we're hiring people with degree mill "degrees," no license, no student teaching, etc. They invariably last 1 year. Special ed positions sometimes don't have any applicants and remain unfilled. Very different from when I started 20 years ago and many openings had competitive interviews and we were picking from 10 people all with pertinent masters degrees.

I’m sorry girl I had to stop listening at 1 minute and 16 seconds because I was going to start sobbing. I’ll be back

I can be the change I want to see. But not if I quit!

We are truly wasting a generation of children due to how abysmal the system is now. Truly a dystopian situation for both the students and their teachers.

Everyone hears, sees, reads, the same things we do. Why isn't our government helping? What are they waiting for? It's like a house on fire.....You did everything right, including leaving. When you mentioned teaching with "fidelity," I kind of chuckled, only because I'm years away from an impossibly demanding principal who said this. My joke was that I was teaching this intervention with "infidelity." I could not stand reading the script, instead of giving them creative ways, as a TEACHER, to be more successful. It's as if they're directing this to people who are more comfortable behaving like robots

I agree with everything you have to say. However, I know I will probably get pushback but having taught for 20 years and substitute teaching for six, I don't think visiting the classroom was a good idea. They are establishing a new relationship with their new teacher and you left them with questions they had for you about coming back, etc which was so very sad. She then had to explain to them their questions after you left. I know because I replaced a teacher on a maternity leave who was absolutely adored and I was left with the sadness of the kiddos after she left.

I’m so sorry this has happened to you. I can tell that you are very, very upset about this because you are absolutely right. You were meant to be a teacher, but you can’t do this anymore because of the broken educational system we have in the United States. For almost a decade, I worked with community college students until there were major changes in funding of adult education, and also changes in curriculum that made it so the community college I was working at wasn’t helping the students anymore. I have a master’s degree in education and I wrote a research paper in graduate school about No Child Left Behind policies and testing being harmful to students. What’s strange is the standardized testing being conducted in public schools is normative based testing and not criterion based testing. A great example of how absurd this is was given in a peer reviewed source I used as part of that research paper. When you take a test to get your driver’s license, you are tested to see if you meet the criteria of being capable of safely driving a motor vehicle. You are NOT being tested on a curve to see how well you do on that test compared to all other people being tested to get their driver’s licenses. The testing arrangement is set up to make public school education in this country to fail. Politicians can then proclaim, “See? It doesn’t work! Let’s give out vouchers to everyone and they can decide what school they want to go to.” The only problem is that this only will benefit those well off enough to pay for private education, while the majority of those who are economically disadvantaged will suffer and really will fall behind when it comes to their educational needs.

I think what shocked me was that these kids just don't care and yet they're at school.

Sadly, the same reasons are why I will be retiring early because it is only getting worse and more stressful.

Thanks for sharing your story. You look like Cecelia Blomdahl. She’s a youtuber.

Just started. I agree with the salary being an issue. If I didn't have my military retirement check, I couldn't afford to teach. My retirement check surpasses what the district pays. College educated subject matter experts deserve more than slightly over minimum wage. I think people don't understand the profession and think it's the 1980s where teachers just gave out ditto sheets and left work at 3:30pm

So what do you do now that you have left teaching?

She’s very right about getting bodies into the classroom. I am one of those bodies. I got into teaching because I majored in philosophy, which helped me become a better reader, writer, and speaker. It showed me that critical thinking is what every kid must develop, so I got into teaching, and was hired into a charter organization with zero teaching experience. They think if they can just supply the inexperienced with organization-made curriculums that teaching would go smoothly. No, not even close. It’s been two years and I’m out. It’s such a disservice to the kids to place inexperienced teachers into the classroom. Sure, I get experience, but through trial and error at the expense of the kids. My first year, I was with an experienced teacher, but my halfway into my second I was expected to lead a classroom full of kids with IEPs having never been formally trained to handle kids with IEPs. Crazy. Then admin’s on my ass for not making growth with my IEPs, as if their minds lack the common sense that a second-year teacher with no ICT classroom experience can foster the growth that is envisioned. My first year, I was learning the ropes. My second, thrown in an ICT with a co-teacher that ran everything and hardly ever ran things by me. Now I see why people have their issues with charters. Learned the hard way.

Your emotion is warranted ... it is a tough profession. Rest up. James Deagle

Wow! They’re running the young people out of the classroom.

My brother has a Psych degree and he just went back to do some accelerated program with the college I went to and now he teaches Math. Not all of them are total crap.

I taught for 21 years. Never again!

We need to find out how to start our own schools!!

I’ve seen both of her “why I quit…” videos. The stuff she’s complaining about in this one I’ve heard a million times from teachers all my life. “Testing. No respect. No trust. LET ME TEACH!!!” I think what happened to this woman is what’s happened to many people in any job. Their mental health got the better of them. I also think she idealized teaching and didn’t see the reality of how crappy it can be. Any teacher reaches a point, maybe more than once, when they ask themselves why they do what they do. Frustrations and gripes aside, they FIND a way to push through for themselves first, THEN their students. This is why teachers go to different schools, districts, subjects and grades from time to time. They need a fresh start. Teachers who do the job for 25 plus years don’t do it because they need affirmation or love or respect from the rest of the world. If you need that validation all the time, you’re never going to find happiness in teaching. This woman thought nothing could be better than teaching. Lockdowns got the better of her and she developed an eating disorder (again?) and she saw teaching and life for what they are. Another person would have taken a break or found ways to “suck up” the work problems while dealing with life. She chose to walk away completely and blame everything except her simply getting overwhelmed and crashing and burning. Now she wants to try and change education from some other angle. She’s going to end up being those people, who don’t teach, have no clue what goes on in the classroom (because she doesn’t teach anymore) and is going to tell teachers and admins and districts her vision of making things “better.” She’s going to become a part of the same problem she despises right now. No thanks. “I should be teaching!” Well then figure out the source of your mental health issues. Mature and grow up and come back to it when you’re ready. Fix yourself. Stop blaming everything else. You want to teach? Do so. No job is perfect, but doctors, nurses, etc. remember why they do what they do and find a way to do it. Don’t idealize anything. Solve your problems, face reality, accept the things you can’t change and go back to doing what you love.

I left in 2006 and still have PTSD

Education is broken at the higest levels. It starts with the Federal Government down to the local school boards. It is sad. The system breaks those who care, and rewards the lazy, ignorant, and complacent.

I began teaching in 1979, and what is in the classroom now isn't anywhere near what I signed on to do all those years ago. I can say emphatically that over the years the quality of our principals has bottomed out. The support that I got from principals at the beginning of my career doesn't exist anymore. From a principal who was a part-time rancher to another who hired me to teach elementary behavior-challenged students (that's putting it nicely), then changed me to the high school behavior class which consisted of six boys who spent the entire day cursing two inches from my face, sometimes threatening to kill me...with NO support from administration. Life is too short, and my emotional and physical health is too precious to give it up. This may anger some teachers, but along with the incompetent principals out there, I definitely noticed a plethora of teachers who couldn't produce a grammatically-correct sentence, many who wore clothes better suited for yard work than leading our future citizens. All those qualities lead to the appearance of a lack of professionalism. Those things matter.

I feel like the whole united states is this way. Control and laws for the sake of laws in order to fine citizens, while not even giving people livable wages. No breaks for the individual so many things.

I LOVE the angry version

Why aren’t they requiring cell phones to be kept in their backpacks?

The " system " IMO is disgusting. It's way worse than when I was working in Special Education in the public school system back in 2007. I quit to run a Licensed Family Childcare out of my home. Have been since. They are not considering the children in the childcare/early learning system and licensing. Same with public school. The kids are just numbers. They are using them. Using them for programs because of money. It has been a rollercoaster of how wonderful the teachers and daycare provides were treated at the beginning of the pan dem ick and then back to treating us like crap. Even worse. Using us too. And the parents follow the lead with how we are treated. They forget all that the teachers and daycare providers went through. The system will not change because the main focus is not on what is best for the children. It will just get worse.

The rationale behind standardized testing is to get some objective metric of students' mastery of the material to that point in their academia. The problem is the implementation. The test instrument is fine, as it is laid out, and for its content, but putting the students through an exhaustive test of everything they should know on a multipl-choice exam is not practical. Essentially, it takes a blurry snapshot of every student on their worst psosible day - or days. Such testing has to be done as a practicum. We want students to demonstrate how well they know their material naturally, and confidently. Many of them don't express that naturally or confidently on the scantron tests - especially in lower school. It's not much better in high school! When I got to college and took my first practical test, I fell in love. I finally understood why studying for a test was so hard. I was trying to cram information into my head instead of grasping concepts. Now our schools are firehosing facts into our kids before their poor brains can absorb them, and asking them to regurgitate onto a computer form. That's not education. It's programming! I know because I was a programmer, back in the 80s, when we had to put our facts on punch cards and feed them into a computer to see if we were right!

When I did my student teaching in PE some 50 odd years ago, it didn't take me long to realize I would become nothing more than a glorified babysitter if I went into teaching. Some years later, and a move across the country, and I found a meaningful job I stay at for 34 1/2 years. To this day, and how much education has gone into the toilet for the most part, I'm glad for my decision at that time.

30k a year is an absolute joke, should be 60k at a minimum! I work with kids just out of college (bachelors degrees) in a job far less demanding than teaching who start at 70k. They work from home mom-fri 8hr days.

All the teachers who are fed up with the school system should open up a teacher owned school where they make the decisions on how they teach .

Personally, the only thing we teachers don't have that we really need are concerned parents. I can deal with the lack of any other resources if I had that.

Respect Teachers its true. Hope. Teacher's unions can help. Many things can fix Unity.

Injured teacher here! I was injured for life by a student that drop kicked a basketball to my head! My neck is injured for life. I had to quit or I would be beating the crap out of administration and violent students. I'm scared to go back even if I could get better. The administration would not help me contain my class. I asked teachers union for help and got nothing. I paid them over $300 a month and they do nothing! I even went to the school councilors for help. Then they let me get injured for life. All the schools care about is attendance! Bodies in seats, but the schools I worked at were very dangerous. I could not teach indoors because they threw things at me. If you send them to the office, they send them right back and blame the teacher. My school had over 150 referrals referrals to the office in 1 month and so they told us to stop sending them and to handle it alone. At another job they had a non certified teacher above me and I am certified! I went rounds with her not listening to me when I was supposed to be in charge. Now that time the teachers union stepped in and told the principal he was in the wrong. So yes they do put in just bodies thst are not trained or educated. I understand completely your frustration, I'm frustrated to. I miss teaching and the goose bumps I got when a girl would 1 handedly make a perfect basket. I miss talent shows, I miss everything. I think that you would have to gather a group of teachers of all grades and subjects to put together a new curriculum and introduce it to the board of directors. Or try and get on the board, then you have more pull. I tired to help yrs ago but no one would listen.

Lack of discipline maybe.....YA THINK? A retiring teacher put it this way....."The teacher is afraid of their principal, the principal is afraid of the Supt. the Supt is afraid of the School Board, the School Board is afraid of the parents, the parents are afraid of disciplining their kids......AND THE KIDS AREN'T AFRAID OF ANYBODY!" Gee.....what could POSSIBLY be wrong here???? WELL DUH!!!!

Also, white hot rage is the most delicious kind, if you see it on the menu. It's only better when paired with revenge, which (as you may know) is best served cold. Don't discount the value of being enraged or outgraged by circumstances. It indicates your passion and zeal. When prfound injustices are imposed on crucial people, those of us most disturbed and angered by it are the same who activate changes in the system. How people don't know you get what you pay for applies to education is beyond me.

Same reason we all did. Certain demographic that holds any attempt at education hostage with their State protected behavior.

Wow! You know thirty years ago teachers were saying this, a decade ago teachers were saying thoughts like this.....that should tell you something.....you are right to be angry. I am a person that tried for years. I spent thousands on my classroom, I was dedicated, never called in. The last stop had an utterly incompetent principal in Albuquerque who ran off an entire building twice in two years, literally got rid of people or they left and that person is still there in a District like so many others that just doesn't care ...and pretty soon they will find themselves in a situation with nobody to run off. In a lot of this nation we are in an education crisis.

The education system will not change, despite everyone understanding it doesn't work for the majority of students. The reason is money. We see everything through the lens of money and profit. The business of school as usual is profitable for the education industry and justifies the salaries of bureaucrats. We keep looking for silver bullets-- trendy policies that we hope will work, instead of the much harder task of transforming the paradigm. It's a cowardice and rationalization akin to the "King Has No Clothes." I became a teacher after half a career in industry, because I felt I could provide some real-world tech content, especially at the HS level. I will be leaving soon feeling like I was about 10% effective. My favorite analogy is: teachers are like a car engine, and we are running the red line. Admin is the transmission, and they are in 1st gear.

Videos like these dissuade me from considering education as a career.

Starting your own private / charter school or teaching abroad is really the only answer right

Update-Mohave you seen jonathan Haidts books? Interviews - hopefully it will get the ball rolling. I’ve been teaching over 25myears after having many other jobs and I love teaching and hate the system that has gotten much worse. Until teachers all across this country grow a backbone and walk out nothing will change. No one takes us seriously and peoples actions and policies show they simply don’t care about children; especially if they are poor working class.

“Taughten”… 🤨

Are their viable options in private education? How about corporate education? I agree public ed is absolutely broken.

Do u know to cut hair barbers hairdressers make good money once u get certified been a barber for two years

I dealt with MANY of these issues 20 years ago. So I quit. Things are not likely to change for the better. It really just gets worse. I had to watch what I said. We all knew that the pay for teachers is WAY less for other professions that require a Bachelor's degree. There are jobs that don't require a degree that pay a lot more and they are less stressful by comparison. Everyone knows going in that you are not going to make even decent money. The pay has always been very low and that is not going to change. That is why it is better for a single person or for a married person so there are two household incomes. Many teachers also have part time jobs.

Well you CAN do what you were "born to do" and "made for". It's just a matter of dealing with the stress to do the job you love so much. The system isn't going to change! Not for the better anyway.

The fact that teachers are not some of the best paid people in society is an outrage. What exactly do we expect the next generation to accomplish if we're stretching their teachers to their absolute limits?

Another problem in education : collective classroom punishments.I’m talking if you guys don’t quiet down we won’t have recess. First of , why punish everyone when only a few kids were being wild and two if you don’t let them get outside to release energy won’t their behavior just be worse ! What about take them outside and then they won’t be so wild . And in middle and high school be quiet or you will have homework for spring break just wasn’t fair either .that’s just lazy in my opinion. And parents want to know why kids hate school.😒

The administration is so under qualified and we know more than them but we are not truly heard. I taught for ten years and the administration called me a sub and the staff were degrading me. I left with no notice and never looked back.

Were you not aware that the student loans you took out had to be repaid?

I know teachers are trained not to use any negative words, but you deserve to express every angry thought you have. You should get it out before it rots you from the inside.Vent all the internal pressure.

The movie Benediction (2022) might be able to give you some solace.

The only profession that pats themselves on the back more are firemen

If you really love teaching, why don't you start a tutoring business. Or make resources for other teachers and sell them. Maybe some kind of consultant for teachers where you can help them to reflect and mature as a teacher. Would be a shame to waste your professionalism and experience as a teacher.

As long as governments run schools, those schools will be run on a government model - top-heavy, bloated bureaucracies existing on tax money which citizens are forced to pay. This may be the source of some of the resentment teachers feel.

I see what you’re saying. However, if they don’t at least put bodies in the classroom, schools will be at risk for shutting down. Then, the kids will not learn. I don’t think the schools are the issue. The government at both the state and federal level is the issue.

Teach at private school. You don’t have to quit being a teacher. You should just quit public school.

30g a year 😮 that’s like dirt poor. You can double that salary working as a shift manager at Wendy’s

$30,000 a year with a Masters? A preschool teacher can get the same pay with just an Associates. That's not right!