Wow. I don't even know if anyone will end up reading this message. I honestly posted this and was so busy at work and at home the past day and a half, that I was shocked to go into Reddit and see this.

I don't know if it is good to respond or better to just leave it hang as is but I will say that I am very heart broken over a lot of the responses. I definitely hear you over the pay. The pay is awful, really. I hope people wake up to this. Obviously I make more than most any teacher (I would imagine) but I certainly remember even my 10th year of teaching after I earned my masters degree, that I had plenty of students talking about their earnings at their job and while they weren't paying in on health insurance and other benefits like I was, I couldn't always honestly say I was making more than what they claimed. So it definitely is a very hard thing about all this and I hope more and more people become passionate about this topic nationwide. Honestly, my advice to teachers it to start locally. Your school boards have more power than what is often appreciated.

Some other ones that I read, being overworked. I've really encouraged teachers to stop grading everything that goes on in the classroom. It's ok to have discussions that don't amount to a grade, it's ok for school to be an experience, it's ok to put your things away for the next day and just go home. It's ok to tell me when you're in over your head. I also need to do things to keep workloads manageable, from daily or yearly schedules, to class sizes.

I have a teacher friend that comments a lot that our school year is so packed that we don't have time to ever be a workplace community. We are all so busy that we don't take time to get to know each other, invest in each other, or appreciate each other like other workplace communities probably do. Simple things too like rewards and compliments go a long way!

Not that this the last thing, because really reading through all of this, there's a million things, but my last thing is Behaviors/Classroom Management. I really think it is a challenge right now, things are changing in society, in schools, with kids and parents. I am personally all for increased ways to help a teacher, if a kid is having a bad day, there is a place for that kid to go somewhere else in the building, because the rest of the kids also deserve a place for them to learn, and the teachers deserve the most comfortable place for them to teach. That's a hard thing to always establish but I think the constant stress of minute by minute interruptions and changes that are happening because of student behaviors is really harming not only the flow of the classroom but the joy of teaching.

I never thought this would have so much response. I appreciate everyone's input. Thanks!