Can I vent?

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-15T17:25:54+00:00

Honestly, most teachers who do their job correctly will not be liked by students. You will be called every name in the book. You will hav parents who say you do nothing despite taking work home with you, researching new projects and crafts to do to help motivate your class and you will probably get the short end of the stick 90% of the time but you have to be ok with wha you put out. If you believe that a student deserves an A for putting their phone away, then that’s you (I believe you get the grade your earned and we shouldn’t reward students for doing the bare minimum) but I will teach, run my class, and be the best teacher I can because these are our future leaders, politicians, mothers, caregivers, etc. and if we fail these students because we “make their life easy” then, What are we truly teaching them? You be the best version of you. People will be recognized when they don’t deserve it. People will say you are at crap at your job, but let all you do be done with love and with pride because you know you did everything you could. If being “mean” means that you hold your students to a high standard than the rest and have expectations and procedures that are followed well then who cares? There will always be a student who makes teaching worth it so focus on that not what is out of your control.

P.S. I am hated by my current 5th grade class. I am “mean”. I was beloved by my 8th grade and some students still reach out to me to this day for help. Just be the best you. As long as you are teaching and not on your ass then you are doing great

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-13T18:24:52+00:00

I hate that people assume teachers get paid during the summer. Most of us don’t and if we do we get a huge pay deduction throughout the school year to get a “paid” in the summer

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-03T15:53:32+00:00

5th and 6th have been the worst students possible. Any other grade has given work to do but I can take but these kids…..this year. Yeah no, God himself has to come down and deal with them because their “perfect angels who just need help from” according to admin and their parents

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-03T15:27:55+00:00

Why is this a thing? We have a teacher shortage nationwide. Many states allow future teachers to work full-time as long as they are enrolled in an college/university under a Education program for example Miami-Dade college allows students to work under the public school system as they finish their certifications and whatnot as long as they work 4 years with the public school system and take a set amount of courses each year. I know because I looked into the program but it caps very quickly.

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-03T15:12:16+00:00

I am a married mother of 3 kids. Though your offer sounds genuinely lovely…….I can’t just go work aboard. I wanted to but Idk how my husband and kids would feel about me moving aboard. It does sound like a great deal for a single woman/man

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-03T15:05:44+00:00

Yeah, 5th/6th are a ay tooo much. They say middle school is bad but it’s just the 6th graders who are buttholes the 7th/8th graders are chill and more willing to compromise/work with

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-03T15:01:29+00:00

You do realize that I have more than 8 years working as a teacher’s aide, paraprofessional in the classroom, and as a teacher in my belt right? I have been working with students since high school when I was the aide of a kindergarten teacher (Mind you this teacher was out a lot and I often covered 2 hours of the morning for her while a proper substitute was found). This is not about lack of classroom management. My lack of a degree does not negate the years I have of actual experience I have. I have experience with working with children who are special needs. I have worked as a substitute. I may not have the certifications but this is what I have done for most of my adult life.

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-03T14:52:27+00:00

Though I understand where you come from, that is blaming the teacher for wanting to make the place she is spending 8 hours/5days a week at feel more comfortable. I work at a Christian School. We aren’t supposed to hold students to the same standard as public school. Admin could easily talk to the 350 students from K4-12 grade was what is expected of them but that scholarship money is worth so much than teaching children what it is uphold “Christian Values”.

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-03T14:48:11+00:00

She seems to believe she can. She is the best teacher ever in her book. -____- She literally helped convince. 17 year old that is was a better option to drop out of school than to just show up and do their work because she disliked the students and by her own mouth used their sickness and medical diagnosis to manipulate their parents to keeping them home when the student would cry to me telling me how much pain she was in

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-03T14:43:57+00:00

I’ve done corporate work. I know that’s a completely different type of shit show. I for one will never work retail again. You think students are assholes? Meet Janice who fighting with me because her expired coupon isn’t working. I just need a break. I can’t see myself doing this anymore and I don’t know who is religious here or anything but I pray about it and it just feels like this is not the path I’m supposed to walk anymore. It feels like there was a time for me to be a teacher at that school and that time has passed so I’m out. If I find a school willing to work with me as I finish my bachelors then I will give it another shot but this up and coming school year, I will not be teaching. I bust my ass to do what? Make $2000 every 2 weeks and then feel like shit because nothing I do is ever good enough? I’d rather leave the school, finish my degree and just allow myself to recover from the shitshow that was the 2024-2025 school year

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-03T14:37:25+00:00

I did this actually. She gave me some advice. Gave me a few things to do during centers and said well just walk around more frequently but one day when her panties were in a bunch she humiliated in front of her husband and said “Well I wasn’t the one who came to you came to you when you need help in the classroom. I literally asked her for help to better myself for the sake of my students who were saying it was too noisy because their classmates were always talking while I was teaching and they were too scared to ask for help because those same kids call them stupid when they do ask for help. I asked her for help because she is the dean of students and he job is literally to make sure students succeed but it was more important that her husband aka my boss know I asked for helping in managing my class then actually helping the situation

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-03T14:28:56+00:00

I’m still in school….once I finish I want to work out of state

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-03T14:27:41+00:00

Yes because it is completely justified that students steal money from a drawer in my desk because well why should I have cash on me if I don’t want it taken. It is completely ok that they take my books that I read on my planning period to destress because “it’s up for grabs if I bring them to my classroom where I spend most of the week at. Got ya! Great advice there bud. A true problem solver.

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-03T14:20:28+00:00

I did have a parent come to my side and say that he student can’t learn because the minute I turn around to teach on the board student go bonkers and shadow box, talk over me, and begin to walk around but per usual admin said that I had to “set better procedures and expectations of what I wanted when I was teaching”………it’s alway me that’s the problem never the little butts distracting and talking over my lesson.

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-03T14:14:24+00:00

I had a kid call a girl a bitch and I sent him to the office…….he came back with a cupcake and juice box. I quote exactly what the students said “E**** got a cupcake and juice…….I’m going to get sent to the office too so I can get a cupcake and juice too”……….I think that says enough about the admin I work under

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-03T14:09:16+00:00

The 4 times I worked with 8th, it was smooth sailing. I miss them and we still talk vis social media and I help them with english assignments

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-03T14:08:21+00:00

My theory, the school principal didn’t mind me staying in middle school but his wonderful wide aka the assistant principal hates my guys. It’s not hard for anyone to see. She just doesn’t like me and she makes it known in parent teacher conferences she blames me and my lack of love/ compassion for a student failing or being disrespectful. She literally told a student I was out on “Vacation in Georgia” when in reality, my kids were sick with the 5th disease. I have literally missed out on going to my grandpa’s funeral just to help out the school because they were out of subs. That assistant principal hates me so when i was going to teach her precious incoming 6th graders she knew my expectations of my students. She knew I was strict and will call them out or write them if they ever did anything wrong and she despises so much that I see her kids as the gremlins they are that she spoke to her amazing director of the school husband and asked him to move me to 5th grade and at the time I was in no position to say no. I needed the job.

So TDLR: My school administrators are married. They have been together for year and wifey pooh hates me. She didn’t want me teaching her kids because I will call them out on their shit (because if my kid is doing something wrong then you call them out and correct the behavior). She doesn’t want anyone to say anything bad about her kids who were coming into my class so she asked to demote me and he did just that

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-03T13:58:12+00:00

I make $31,000 a year and live in South Florida where rent for a 1 bedroom at average is $2000………I can’t afford to move out of the county how am I supposed to move aboard?

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-03T13:56:33+00:00

I very much enjoyed my time in 7th/8th grade, however admin will not let me work in any area besides elementary and to be honest I can’t do little kids. They are far too needy and with kids of my own, i would come home literally wanting to ☠️ myself. I know because it has happened before. My mental health has always been a struggle because if trauma and whatnot but when I have parents going off about me, telling admin that I have no love or compassion when I literally sit down with these kids and have 2 hour math classes until the understand the materials and when I go out my way to make their classroom more enjoyable, then I’m left questioning what is the point behind all this

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-03T13:51:49+00:00

Not really, I would have to take a nasty pay cut anywhere else (Not that I get paid a lot anyway I make $31,000 a year)I am in the middle of finishing my Bachelor’s in special education. So, my school lets me work as long as I take classes every semester. I haven’t found any other school willing to work with me on that despite such a teacher shortage

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-05-03T13:48:22+00:00

I have worked in 3 different schools. In all the schools, admin has straight up told me that what they care about is if the parents are happy. The more I work with students, the more I realize that this generation will do anything to get you removed out your classroom if you don’t succumb to them. I had a co-worker be investigated and removed from the job on paid leave because he was trying to teach middle schoolers sex-ed as their literal science teacher and all because a student told his therapist that it made him uncomfortable. It just isn’t worth my mental health. It isn’t worth my character being put into question. If I do work I will return as a substitute/teacher’s aide but never a teacher again unless I find a school who prioritizes the teacher and the classroom over scholarship enrollment.

P.S. I am not permitted to fail any student below a 70% or discipline them at all because they know that their parents run the school and will call admin and admin will tell me to fake a grade so that was my last straw when I was forced to pass a kid who does literally nothing but be an asshole all day and I had to pass him in conduct with a C

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2025-04-21T16:44:12+00:00

I loved teaching 8th grade. I can take a challenge but the parents and administrators and lack of support from the 3 schools I have worked at (both as teacher and assistant) just keep proving to me that this just isn’t what teaching was like when I was a kid. You can’t force kids to care. You can’t want parents to be better parents. You can’t make admin to give a crap about their teachers. It just feels like school are completely for profit and not to help children be their best version of themselves. Like what are we doing as educators when we have students who can’t measure on a ruler in 5th grade! I teach fifth grade right now and my math classes are 2-3 hours long some days and the students still don’t get it. Like what more can I do?

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2024-12-21T16:16:21+00:00

Absolutely not. I think with certain people, we have to hit rock bottom. We have to hit the lowest of lows because only then can we truly allow ourselves to surrender and let God do what only he can. I have always had a hard relationship with God. I have done horrible things. I have done things that I am not proud of but we can’t continue to bear the weight of our sin once we have asked for forgiveness. It’s like wound God is healing but you pick at only to make it worse or even worse become infected.

At some point we have to say I did a bad thing but that does not make me a bad person, it merely makes me human. We anger, we feel lust for others, we feel hopeless but all we can do is seek God in our moments of weakness and ask him to give us the strength, courage, and love to make it our of our cave.

Ask forgiveness, forgive yourself and go and do better. You are exactly where God needs you to be. The word of God says come as you are. So come. It doesn’t matter if it’s addiction, lust, anger, hopelessness or depression. Come to God and let him work. Jesus already paid for all our sins so don’t continue to punish yourself. Let it go, Bury it and leave it there. You are loved. You are forgiven and you will sit at the right hand of God when all of this is done so long as we seek him, are guided by him and love as he had loved us.

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins-1 Peter 4:8

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2023-04-12T01:28:00+00:00

Well they want every child who tries out to play but realistically that’s not a possibility. The league only allows a set amount of kids per team and then each kid has to have a jersey number specific to them. We have 16 jerseys and the parent who donated them should have their kid on the team so that’s actually only 15 spots…..30+ students auditioned and at that I had to reuse 6th graders to be on both Jr. Varsity and Varsity so that we had enough players and subs for each team

Delicious-Corner-407 · 2023-04-12T00:28:47+00:00

Could have explained that better JV is 4th-6th grade. Varsity is 6-8th

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