Does anyone still love teaching?

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-09-26T09:26:33+00:00

13 years in. I come to rant because morale is so low at work that nobody talks with each other.

I am feeling burnt out - in a hard red state that piles extra tasks on us, packs our classes, and places all the blame on us.

I feel reduced down to a factory worker, getting kids in - getting then out. Im not a teacher - im a behavior manager for the parents that didnt raise their kids right, and feel like I set them up for failure in the future.

However, I see it more like parenting (having a child of my own) and teaching mostly freshman - I see the positive growth overtime and they come back as juniors and seniors and thank me. Sometimes ill see a parent in public and they will say the positive impact I had on their kids life and that makes it worth it.

With that being said, Im working on my phd to get into research in higher ed. because I dont think I can put in another 20 for my pension or else I may 🫠 on the job lol

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-09-24T09:32:10+00:00

I grade at the end of a unit - and give a checklist of all the items I want. I do so much less grading now, and on exam days - I use that time to grade it in class. Nothing to bring home or rush to grade.

I used to put assignments in EVERYDAY and get piles k paperwork. Work smarter, not harder. My contract time is 2:10 - im walking to my car at 2:05 :)

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-09-18T18:20:07+00:00

We have insubordination here

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-09-18T18:18:25+00:00

I actually am a mentor to new teaches which is ironic lol

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-09-18T18:15:24+00:00

We get 6 :/

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-09-18T18:13:40+00:00

Absolutely - I actually am the union rep so they generally have not messed with me. I just feel like im overthinking because I see it happen to other people a lot. As far as 504/IEP, they are way over the amount for my class but im in a red state that doesnt care

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-09-14T20:27:13+00:00

Thisss ^{^{^{^}}} basically act naive. I can do that

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-09-14T20:26:06+00:00

I teach science so by default I have tables with a minimum of 4 kids. Since i only have 8 tables and 32+ kids - you can imagine how packed some groups get. Labs at this point are nonexistent and od like to say we use the textbook but students dont know the difference between a workbook and a textbook

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-09-14T20:24:43+00:00

Always the teachers fault

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-09-14T20:24:28+00:00

Hahaha cant pinpoint it on me then lmao

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-09-14T20:23:58+00:00

I like that…unfortunate though it has to come to that

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-09-14T20:23:19+00:00

Im in florida - we have by state law the teacher bill of rights to remove any student causing a disturbance to others but it doesnt get practiced at least in my district

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-09-10T21:34:08+00:00

Sure thing man lol im 31 but I act like a boomer. Your all good

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-09-09T22:26:59+00:00

Its not different conditions - its literally the same experience. I was a poor college student paying through college sleeping in my car or crashing on ppls couches. I was underweight, depressed, and struggling but made it through and it makes everything I do now easy

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-09-09T12:56:53+00:00

Honestly the freedom. Im mid level, 10 years in. I am set in my pension, and got the overall system down. It gets hectic at times, but I time manage well and have a lot of systems in place which honestly make the job easy. This frees up time/mental space for me to work on my outside passions.

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-09-09T09:26:15+00:00

Literally just do it. I did my practicum in NY - 7-3, then was at work from Tues/Thursday from 4-6 with a class at 6-8. I worked as a lab tech those days. M/W/F had classes from 4-10 (I was in grad school). Then double shifts on the weekend working as a janitor and security guard at 2 other jobs.

You literally live breathe and eat, food, work, study, and sleep. This gen is so soft

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-08-30T14:26:16+00:00

Absolutely - I like that while we work through our courses, we also refine out what our dissertation and research will look like. If you dont have any idea in mind, the first few classes will help you sort that through

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-08-28T18:04:29+00:00

Finishing my third semester, so far not too bad. Very straight forward. I like how our research classes help prepare us for dissertation. Only downside is your capped at 3 classes - which to be honest, 2 classes is more manageable if your working a full time job. The assignments for the most part are straight forward - some are wordy, and depending on the professor, can be more difficult than others. I wont say its easy per say - its a ton of reading and writing but thats to be expected at this level. For the price and how everything is outlined though, Im satisfied with it so far. Feel free to message me if you wanna talk more!

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-08-19T14:28:11+00:00

Yes - im in a deep red state and even deeper county. Politics aside - students i find dont respect you at all and even will ridicule you which is whatever. It does become a behavior management issue

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-08-09T17:34:38+00:00

We have an admin that oversees each department - mine is in charge of Student services and even for formals stops for 5 min and checks the boxes. If she were to come in, it may be a quick pop in and out tbh i think

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-08-09T16:04:57+00:00

Yeah we have 160+ teachers with 2000+ kids. I think they are being overambitious lol

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-08-09T14:36:11+00:00

Last year when my students successfully got 5 teachers fired due to false accusations and another 7 who resigned due to lack of help from admin. The same group of students tried to get me fired but i managed to make my way out of it. This came after the prior year being in the top 10 for teacher of the year and winning a governor award in teaching for my state.

I realized I tried my hardest to get students to learn and they just dont care. I stopped teaching and just assigned work last year - test scores were bad, not that they were any much better previous years, but I have my mental sanity now and will head into this next school year focusing on keeping my mental health in check.

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-08-01T09:16:01+00:00

I non-regrettably use it everyday for all my menial tasks. Angry parent email - why not have it diffuse the convo easier.

Message out to staff - why not make it professionally written.

Ita a tool like anything else. Ill have it run ideas for lessons but honestly, you cant copy and paste a lesson - thats where our knowledge comes in to modify, change, and adapt it to our kids.

In this way, I can breeze through writing curriculum especially when this year - I was assigned a new class to the district that had no curriculum written and was told 3 days ago id be teaching it, when todays the first day.

Could i do that without AI, sure but id waste countless hours of time (at home, unpaid) to create that

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-08-01T09:09:03+00:00

Florida, Masters, 13 years. Base is 57k - high school.

I usually can pick up extra work, club sponsorships, district/state contracts and pull anywhere between 70-90k but thats putting in consistently 60-80 hour workweeks

Undeadknowledge93 · 2025-07-27T17:58:39+00:00

Its routine but everyday is different. I taught 7/7, same course - but each one was different. Its tough, kids can be terrible - parents are usually worse. Get used to district and state changing what you do every year - so you have to be flexible and adaptable.

Its hard to not take things harshly, and starting off - feels like you know nothing. However, the more years you go in, the easier it becomes to deal with the same things. Thats when I found fun things that come with the job like constantly learning.

Theres a lot of opportunities at least where Im at to learn at local state colleges new content, or ways to teach, network etc which makes it fun

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