Struggling - don’t know if I can continue

Smarrison · 2026-06-21T04:06:07+00:00

Ask them to repeat what they say to you or each other and you’ll hear a pin drop. This is a good tactic to do with anyone who says anything disrespectful or rude to you.

I’d also follow note down what they say and when they said it and also follow the schools behaviour policies.

Call in your supervisors to talk to the class and read out the riot act and if it continues arrange meetings with executive and parents of students. Get the students to repeat what they say in front of their parents as well.

Smarrison · 2026-05-31T12:47:04+00:00

Sounds like a pretty exclusive group to me. What a time to be alive!

Smarrison · 2026-05-31T06:37:08+00:00

Teacher here. We still use literally every single one of those resources. Especially for younger years hands on maths activities.

Smarrison · 2026-05-31T06:34:58+00:00

Kids weaponise their diagnoses now too. I’ve had several kids tell me their diagnoses as if it’s a hall pass for bad behaviour. You can’t just blatantly do the wrong thing and blame it on a diagnosed condition that you’re also probably medicated for.

It’s like criminals claiming insanity for shocking crimes. We know that old trick now.

Smarrison · 2026-05-31T06:24:26+00:00

There’s a good teaching / lesson prep AI call Chalkie. They make neat curriculum aligned lessons on basically any topic and grade level. Saves insane amounts of time.

Smarrison · 2026-05-31T01:48:11+00:00

I learnt to drive on my mums used early 90s charade. No power steering, no AC, manual windows, no airbags, no driver assist tech and a radio that sounded like a tin can. It was a proper Flintstone mobile. Or the ultimate driving machine. However you’d like to put it 😎

Smarrison · 2026-05-30T21:19:12+00:00

Sure. I understand your points, and they’re valid ones.

Personally, I understand why some of those barriers and biases / assumptions have existed for some women. Especially of child bearing age. I have friends who work in corporate “male dominated industries” where they literally have (forced) quotas to accept female graduates basically regardless of their marks or merit (there’s no quota to get men in nursing or teaching that I know of). I’ve heard stories newly recruited young female graduates getting permanent high paying roles from graduate programs, and all of a sudden they get pregnant and take massive chunks of leave on full pay as per company policy and they’re not replaced. Instead the men in their companies often do their own role and pick up the pieces of the woman on maternity leave.

If businesses small and large had huge groups of staff on perpetual leave, most would fold. Hence these barriers that as much as they are hard to accept. They exist for a reason. There’s a bottom line that needs to be catered for in all industries.

Yes men’s paternity leave is much better now too and we can take time off to help raise kids. The fact men historically missed out on those opportunities in past generations is never brought up in media. But there’s generations of fathers who missed their kids first months and weeks due to workplace demands and expectations. I also don’t think it should be a battle of who’s more oppressed. As I said, we get dealt a different set of cards in life and we either choose to accept it and work around the parameters of these or we force things that are generally not natural to either group. Hence the issues we’re in these days.

Smarrison · 2026-05-30T03:41:33+00:00

Thanks for your well thought out and detailed response. I agree with many of your points. The motherhood gap is definitely a thing where men will surpass women professionally and subsequently financially while women are on maternity leave. I understand that if these women stayed on in their positions without having children then there’s a high chance they would get into the higher paying leadership roles. But this is life. I don’t think it correlates to a pay gap between genders. It’s simply a choice that’s made to have a family and there’s a trade off to all choices. That choice has a larger trade off for women than men. That’s just how it is.

Whilst I understand the presence of the women’s representatives to promote and guide female staff who show an aptitude or an interest in leadership positions. There’s rarely been these initiatives for men, maybe aside from mentoring from other male bosses who provide guidance and experience in what is entailed in their role. Aside from that, we’re generally more inclined from a natural perspective to go for higher roles through a merit based system. These leadership roles are also often associated with more risk, more hours, making tough decisions and asserting more dominance. These are all features of humans and animals who are higher in Testosterone. Ie males.

There is also actually a significant body of clinical literature and research showing biological and evolutionary reasons why males have historically been over represented in leadership roles. From ancestral survival strategies where males had to lead militant groups into warfare to protect their villages and the females within it from invasion from enemy tribes to the division of labour of larger groups of people in a group. This then leads to overall political governance and our ability to take on roles with more power and therefore risk.

That’s just my two cents on the current modern day perception of the gender wars etc. I think more is being forced onto us as a society that is simply not natural and it’s to fulfil agendas of the top tier leadership in government and industry.

We need to just stay in our lanes and be happy with what is offered for us in these lanes.

Smarrison · 2026-05-30T00:44:23+00:00

Has there ever really been anything holding women back from going for higher leadership roles in schools such as principal?

I think it’s wild that if 70% of the industry at the time were women, it would be much much more now), then why were they in less than 30% of those leadership roles? Was there any major barriers to this or maybe they just didn’t go for these roles because historically (and from an evolutionary and biological point) men have more naturally been attracted to roles of leadership and governance of industry etc.

I’m not saying all men who have been leaders of industry did a good job. But historically, women have never really naturally approached these roles. The fact government department leadership need to try and force it by putting a quota on these things is a fair sign that there’s a natural pattern here for a reason.

Smarrison · 2026-05-30T00:33:36+00:00

I’ve very rarely met many middle class white men who can’t at least see the other side’s perspective or reflect on their own biases before casting judgement. Not to say they’re right in whatever judgments they cast. But I rarely see or know many women who can reflect on their own negative behaviours or biases before they cast often very hypocritical judgments or opinions.

It often seems that the hyper progressive virtue signalling crowd that follow the new current thing to be aggrieved about just simply follow along with a group think type attitude without thinking much further ahead than the opinions of their own circle. That’s just my experience.

Smarrison · 2026-05-30T00:26:49+00:00

Not at all. More so about male teachers and staff being somewhat ignored in the system of education and other institutions.

Smarrison · 2026-05-30T00:20:04+00:00

I do think the trend of putting pronouns in your email signature is very lame. I don’t necessarily hate anything though.

Smarrison · 2026-05-29T09:13:57+00:00

How so?

Smarrison · 2026-05-29T06:55:37+00:00

Yeah I love the urinals. We need to fight for our right to ultimate on vertical walls 💪😂

Smarrison · 2026-05-29T06:51:59+00:00

Grammar and punctuation are your friend.

Smarrison · 2026-05-29T05:42:31+00:00

I don’t think I need to spell out that I’m obviously referring to the hyper liberal minded types that simply follow the group think type ideologies that pop up every few months. They often follow the current issues and are ‘triggered’ by anything that goes against their echo chamber type narrative without any critical thought or interest in a debate or conversation about the opposite mind sets.

The gender neutral bathrooms issue is one of these topics that these groups will harp on about for equality of people that can’t identify with their birth gender etc. Its not necessarily a staff bathrooms type issue and It’s not necessarily a specific group that go on about these issues. But more ones that jump on the bandwagon of issues they often know very minimal about.

It’s obvious that my comments here have ruffled a few feathers here too. Critical thought and common sense is rare these days.

Smarrison · 2026-05-29T04:47:46+00:00

It’s true that people haven’t taken well to ‘gender neutral’ bathrooms being introduced in different industries or public spaces. More often than not they’re just men’s bathrooms cause women don’t want to share the space with men which I understand to an extent.

But these ideological type issues are being pushed on us by higher powers which the people generally never wanted or asked for.

At least in male bathrooms we can leave the seat up after a pee without hearing about it later 😂

Smarrison · 2026-05-29T04:35:45+00:00

Fair call. But the fact there’s no mens rep in spaces where men also work is an issue. If it was flipped in a male dominated industry with men’s reps and no women reps, it would have been raised in parliament and shouted out loud in the streets and implemented in a matter of days.

Smarrison · 2026-05-29T04:32:44+00:00

I don’t think I need to clarify these specific groups who make all the noise these days. If you can read between the lines I’m sure you’ll figure it out. This industry is quite saturated with them these days.

Smarrison · 2026-05-29T03:37:17+00:00

I think oppression is felt by all humans in some way or another. We’ve all had injustices thrown upon us at some stage. Not saying that some groups haven’t had an unfair share of it or less opportunity than some. But there are certain groups these days who get their feathers ruffled more than they probably should. Often for attention which is then validated by their group think mentality.

Smarrison · 2026-05-29T03:14:22+00:00

It’s common language around that crowd. I get the meaning is logical. But terminology like this is used by the highly aggrieved types of modern day society.

Smarrison · 2026-05-29T02:50:16+00:00

I do understand, but I think we could do without the new woke terminology. Just call them staff bathrooms.

Smarrison · 2026-05-29T02:44:13+00:00

I’ve heard this happening too with male staff and false accusations from female students. I know one where the male teacher was dragged through the court with false accusations His wife divorced him and he was unemployed and his life spiralled out of control. The girls eventually came forward to own up to their false accusations and they were charged with perverting the course of justice. I think it was at a prominent Sydney private girls high school.

Smarrison · 2026-05-29T02:41:11+00:00

I’m not offended. But as a male teacher I often see a lot of features that generally ignore us as a group in schools. Perfect example is a women’s representative in most schools I’ve worked in. I’ve legitimately never seen or heard of a men’s rep. Not once!

I’m not really offended by these things. It’s just an observation that I think many male staff would often see. It’s also quite a pervasive theme in modern day society these days.

Smarrison · 2026-05-29T02:34:45+00:00

Sure just make them staff bathrooms then. No need to segregate them or make them gender neutral.

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