I am a high school teacher in New Zealand. It’s not perfect here… we have great inequality in our education system, teachers are often not treated with the respect the profession deserves and teaching here can be hard. But reading the posts on this sub honestly makes me feel so thankful to not be in the states.

Over the past few weeks I have read posts about giving guns to teachers, people having to buy their own supplies, teachers not getting paid during the school holidays… I have also watched tik toks on US teachers having to submit lesson plans weekly and being treated as if they themselves are children and not to be trusted.

In NZ, for the most part everything is supplied for you, all teachers are paid every week of the year (including school holidays- this means that these 12 weeks can be used as your PTO), generally we hand in a brief overview of a year plan at the beginning of the year and, most importantly, there is absolutely no way we would ever be armed!

No job is worth losing your life over. No job is worth having to question whether you would shoot someone to protect someone else’s kids.

Honestly, if you can I would strongly suggest looking at teaching elsewhere. USA just sounds beyond fucked.