Teachers Having Enough of That B*Shit! | School Stories #1

former teachers of reddit what was the last straw that made you quit your job i had a severe ear infection and temporarily lost my hearing for three days tried to push through it for the first day but realize that not being able to hear the 39 year olds in my made teaching them pretty difficult i took two days off and sent highly detailed plans to the supplier who was covering me this was the only time i took off for the whole year i returned to work to no less than 10 complaints apparently my sick leave was incredibly selfish as having a different teacher for two days was very confusing for the poor darlings who couldn't cope the head teacher backed me up and told them to respectfully frick off but that was very much the last straw i'm bending over backwards working weekends and evenings for you and your kids but you can't afford me a little human decency i'm out i left when the state mandated a new teacher evaluation protocol we had to document our proficiency in four standards 17 indicators and 29 elements with photographs examples of student work handouts from meetings logs of parent interactions copies of emails etc no one ever expects a doctor to have to prove he relates well with his patients by photographing office visit but i had to photograph students working in the lab or doing group work to prove i taught using a variety of techniques i had to log or photograph my visits to my sped students study hall to prove i supported their learning it was endless administrators still visited my classroom and evaluated my teaching as before but now i was responsible for documenting so much more if you can't trust me to be a professional after 15 years of teaching ap classes then guess what i'm gone free iei ike my mom had to deal with that when she was teaching the school wanted to get rid of tenure teachers because they wanted quantity over quality so her and other teachers had crooked evaluators grading them harshly for anything they thought would warrant it friend of mine quit on the spot when he was asked to change a student's grade the kid missed over 50 percent of the classes never handed in homework did poorly on tests etc and ended up failing the class he truly earned his failing grade because his father was an influential member of the school board generous donor blah blah blah they couldn't let the kid have a failing grade on his record but summer school was also not an option because the family had already scheduled a vacation during the time that summer classes would be in session so the principal told my buddy that he had to change the student's grade to her passing grade my buddy told the principal he would absolutely not sign off on that and if it was so important to him to change the grade himself he then said if you do change it don't expect to see me back here in september sure enough the grade got changed and my buddy packed up his crap and left the other teachers were gossipy and cliquey like they had never graduated high school i started teaching at 30 after having worked in different types of jobs they talked crap about each other all the time the one teacher they all told me to avoid turned about to be the only teacher i could stand like me she also worked in the real world the principal wanted me to lower my standards which were exactly the state standards for that class nothing higher because they didn't grow up talking about shakespeare at the dinner table like you i'm neither of my parents graduated high school so i don't know why he assumed i was in some over-educated household just because i had a few degrees he was also just a major butthole he later was demoted from principal back to a teacher because he was terrible the students were okay but i couldn't stand the other teachers my sixth grade substitute science teacher quit in the middle of class we were wild and unruly totally out of control i watched him rub his forehead in frustration and he stands up yells frick every one of you grabs his briefcase and walks out it wasn't singularly my fault but i still feel really bad about it i'm sorry mr messina holy crap i had an algebra teacher named mr messina honestly sounds like something he'd do i taught middle school science in a small rural district in southern illinois the superintendent made a position for his wife in our cash-strapped system due to scheduling it moved me out of a job that i loved into teaching second grade i lasted eight days when the superintendent called me to tell me that i was moving he told me not to get the union involved or fight it i did give him a piece of my mind while on the phone and i heard rumors that the move was coming so i made plans to leave if people ask me why i left i just tell them that education has gone from making people learners to too focused on test scores students lack critical thinking skills i quit for about 1.5 years and went to work at a car manufacturing company i left there just wasn't my thing and now i'm teaching middle school science in a different district not me but my wife she had an unusually high number of special needs students for which she has no specialized training and zero support from administration but one mother in particular insisted that every insane accommodation be made for her son like developing a custom lesson planned specifically for her son one-on-one time during class to make sure he understood give credit for assignments that weren't assigned in place of those that were but not complete the list goes on and on the administration frequently sided with the mother to avoid confrontation all that happened was the other 29 students sacrificed their class time for one kid that didn't even give a crap about being there but the last straw really had to be when he called my wife a freaking bee and his punishment was that he didn't have to go to class next time not suspended not detention he just got out of that class i don't know that it matters but i thought i'd add that my wife taught elective classes that is not standard english math social studies etc special needs students were often enrolled in these classes to keep them busy not really because it was useful for them after many years teaching sp ed i felt like an emotional punching bag mostly due to the parents a struggling first-year teacher i'm validating i'm struggling because of legitimate problems in the education system and not just newness or personal failings it sounds like it doesn't get better which sucks but i'm really good at blaming myself first or blaming myself exclusively reading this makes me feel less guilty about how things are going so far i thought maybe i was inefficient or bad at managing my responsibilities even thought that was never a problem in previous jobs same here i'm a perfectionist and hate that i never feel like i'm a performing well at my job when really this job holds such unrealistic expectations this thread has validated my search for a new job next year two things happened at once after four years of teaching seventh grade a girl who complained to me for an entire semester of being harassed groped brought a pocket knife to school and threatened a boy with it if he grabbed her breast again she was expelled i reported the incident to administrators school resource officers and guidance counselors so they ignored her me and her other two teachers until she became that desperate for him to stop but holds also a troubled student read future felon now a current felon saw me walking from the convenience store with my god daughter he followed us and found my house started riding by throwing stuff in my yard yelling obscenities etc school resource officer said to go to the police they said to go go him final straw he climbed on my fence and shot my dog with a paintball gun i threatened to quit on the spot so they moved him from my class then over christmas break he stabbed and ruined my inflatable decorations i finished the year and was done the girl from rare first story homeschooled to finish high school went to college and just started her pa program the future felon became an actual felon at 18 and is still in jail go figure had a mental breakdown brought about by stress curriculum changes meaning that low ability pupils were constant told that they were not good enough less money meaning redundancies then the pressure of performance-related pay with same-sex interested and low-ability children it was either leave teaching or commit suicide very supportive family and well-paid partner meant that i could stop i wasn't a teacher but i was a classroom assistant hired by the county we were more like volunteers who were paid in education grants so we made less than minimum wage technically two dollars and fifteen cents hr there was a teacher in charge of us i'll call her sandra name changed sandra had a lot of things to do so i left her alone i just kind of did my own thing by asking what teachers if needed help day to day showing up to saturday school for tutoring and doing whatever i could to help with school events it was hard work tutoring for every single class that's offered reporting physical shaming and abuse experienced by students at their homes multiple times talked a kid out of committing suicide learning to level with and work with kids that had severe intellectual and behavioral problems i had no training it was really hard i also spent a lot of my own money on resources and supplies for students who needed them probably more money than what i made in the first place but despite all of those bad things i put up with all of it hundreds of hours of work for almost no pay all because i legitimately care about those students it's a rough school and they deserved a chance they deserved people who care about them structure and someone willing to take the time to make sure they can be successful i did it for them because somebody did it for me when i was little then one day sandra asks me to be a substitute teacher for a class i'm not allowed to do that because i don't technically work for the school that means i can't be alone with students i also don't have substitute teaching certifications sandra gets p walks away angrily then tells several part-time teaching aides who actually work for the school and should be covering for the no-show sub that they have to work overtime and it's my fault she also blatantly tells them that they should teach me a lesson she actually wrote down a list of things she doesn't like about me mostly related to my appearance and clothes and gave it to them but then over the next two weeks all of these teaching aides start calling me fat amy and goodwill sleeper to mcgee they also do that in front of students then sandra starts calling me those names then some of the students start doing it because they see a teacher doing it my depression got worse i went from insomnia due to stress to insomnia due to stress and humiliation that was it i transferred to a different school for the remainder of my service term where i basically just sat in an office doing nothing then i didn't sign up again for the following year tl dr i was trying very hard and working very hard then a vindictive teacher convinced a bunch of school employees to bully me some people are just freaking buttholes i hope you're enjoying whatever you're doing now and put all that stuff behind you i'm in my first year and i'm not going to keep going already got accepted to study a different course next year to get out of teaching the actual event happened after school during care i was physically assaulted by an at the time undiagnosed autistic child i had made many many reports about this child and that they needed help it was so obvious that he was autistic and needed specialized help that we could not provide admin gave me nothing i spoke to the parent and they also did nothing they were also assaulting their other teacher every day finally one afternoon he was screaming at me throwing chairs and trying to hurt the other kids i stood between him and the door to protect the other kids for 10 minutes acting as a punching bag until help arrived he ended up assaulting two or three other teachers that day too while this was terrifying and i probably have some sort of ptsd from it a lot of the reason i'm leaving teaching is the crap admin support i received before and after the event that they cared for the half an hour there was an incident but nothing was done before and i wasn't updated after i was also left as the sole staff member on the shift with the kid when the assault happened even though i'd shared my concerns time and time again crappy selfish ignorant stuff they were always bad but tolerable my last group refused to do much of anything and bullied me mercilessly the last straw was when one refused to move to a different classroom and verbally attacked me over it as if it were my fault the move was in the best interest of the child i basically walked out and my bosses were completely understanding as they saw what i'd been dealing with for 10 years this was a special education room with children with profound disabilities that required a lot of care i'd been teaching 18 years residential facility the school got rid of detentions the kids were out of control and i was asked to change grades so that no kids failed even the ones who never did their work and didn't attempt any questions and exams my school was two thousand kids and their version of detention was either two hour yoga or two hours of playing ping pong and goofing off if you were good with the guards or the dean i.e an honors kid you got out at four and if you had an after-school class you got a slap on the wrist i wonder how long it will be before there is such a shortage of teachers that they are begging for them with contracts of decent working conditions in hand same for nursing the dropout rate for nursing majors near me is around one in three stroke four and even more quit during their first year of working our school admin claimed the school might close if we didn't support a scummy land deal and lie to the parents after 20 years of abuse in sp ed that was it for me and a few others i got a stomach ulcer mostly from the stress of the job it lasted two years two years of spending my day with other people's kids while dealing with a stomach ulcer number i was a permanent sub in a rough school and at one point i got colitis never had it before or since i guarantee it was because of stress not former teacher but i studied to be one and realized it wasn't for me i realized that i didn't give a single crap about the students but i cared so much about the material english when i observed teachers that was something i noticed they genuinely cared about the students even the bad ones i would have taught for a few years and would have snapped on someone or would give everything i had to try to make the students like the material and end up miserable and a shell of myself trying to make people who don't care care the joke amongst teachers is that elementary school teachers teach because they love the kids high school teachers teach because they love the subject and college professors teach because they love being published in the past three years i have taught every middle school grade and subject in my school i have been expected to know every standard for every class and to be able to take over a class at a moment's notice i'm also expected to make the content area and grade level meetings even if it doesn't match up with my planning on top of that i'm surprised to know every single student in every single class that has an iep 504 and medical plan even if i haven't been told they even have one when i moved into the state i was given a bunch of certifications i'm not qualified for and have been put in positions that i shouldn't be teaching i have had two principles six assistant principals and four additional supervisors in my field my admin team is changing my schedule because they don't feel my three degrees 14 certifications in three states and national certification is enough to qualify me to teach the classes they put me in at the beginning of the year i will have seven business days to put together maternity plans for my new schedule i'm finishing out the year and then i'm done ah quit yeah when in they don't ask much of you they just want you to be psychic superhuman prepared for literally any possibility to have no life of your own etc really it's not that big of a deal on a serious note christ i admire you being willing to finish out the year i drop that crap on the spot respect for that patience didn't even make it to being a teacher went through the college courses learned a lot about how to be nice to students of different races religions nationalities cultures genders ethnicities etc learned some about making lesson plans learned a tiny bit about classroom technology but my classes included absolutely nothing about classroom management or how to actually teach dropped out of the program one week into my student teaching assignment i took a summer job working at a hard rock cafe i made more money waiting tables than i did teaching i never went back to the classroom i was teaching journalism in college a student handed in an article which was supposed to go in a newspaper that included no research and multiple emoticons emoticons this was before buzzfeed so i gave the paper an f and said come talk to me about this i explained in short form why journalism exists why it is important and that his worst grade is dropped so this doesn't have to hurt him heck i would accept dorito the student in question was an athlete in a big state school for throwing balls fast i got crap from the dean of students my department chair other professorial types why wouldn't i let it go was i xenophobic or hate sports or what i just wanted him to try a little harder at the thing that was his college major i used to pick my words so meticulously because communication is so important i held to my ethics he got a tutor after a couple weeks but it broke me my mom had died less than a month prior and i had to explain to her college dean ylol in the context of a journalistic article about a bar was unacceptable my father spent years learning english and speaks it better than i do this mother threw balls fast and because of that i was supposed to pass him without question let's go football but between that and mom dying i could not go on i figuratively died in that meeting i taught senior high school with students ranging in age from 16 20 i was berated in the hallway for showing my film class rpg movie apparently a student's parents had sued the school district the year prior and one due to their child having nightmares from a pg film scene in class that's when i knew i simply couldn't make the difference i needed to always catering to the lowest common denominator teaching high school and finish to masters to teach at the collegiate level i get so frustrated when i tell folks that i stopped teaching and the first comment is that those kids can be a nightmare i get it my kids were incredible and the ones that acted out just needed some one-on-one time to talk through what was going on some had a bus of parents some got little sleep because they had to raise their siblings more or less on their own some were getting jumped on the way from their bus stop to get home every week i had a few turn down gang lives to pursue teaching and i could not be more proud of my kids so please don't assume the kids are why teachers quit the administration and the parents are why i couldn't handle it i was a substitute for two years taught seven stroke eighth grade social studies and language arts for a full school year then worked at an online high school as their sole social studies teacher i loved it and was frustrated by it for all of the same reasons people have already listed out all throughout that time i also joined the army reserve trained for and went on a deployment and then got an offer when i returned to teach for an army schoolhouse now i get to do an easier version of teaching with shorter hours and triple the pay and weigh less stress i feel bad about leaving the public schools but i don't feel about bad about being able to easily provide for my wife and child and not have to spend my free time grading and lesson planning and my own money on pencils the profession is at a breaking point i think it truly needs to break for people to realize that they need to start funding and respecting schools and teachers more than they do okay so i'm a student but this is still in my head in seventh grade this teacher would eat his lunch during the period after and some kids i'm dead serious guys trust me would sneak up to his food and eat it when he left he caught the three two boys and one girl going at it and fricking lost it and made them leave his class and go to the principal where they were suspended you'd think they liked it but for some reason they went ape crap okay so the part where the teacher quit was when he explained to the principal again why he sent them there writing out the report and when he said it was because they would eat his food she put her pen down and said well then why don't you bring food for kids who are hungry keep in mind this is the period right after lunch and the food is free and actually isn't crap either i got stalked by a parent because i was the only teacher holding her adhd kid accountable for his grades and she wanted me to let him slide so my ap had to sneak me out the back of the school to avoid them but after the principle was p i wouldn't talk to that parent to work it out this happened two days after the school psych said the mom was unhinged and that i was being targeted for some reason that the psych couldn't figure out i told them the next morning i would not be renewing my contract i have not found a job since possible coincidence but i am so much happier i had to quit because the school i was working in was so awful and i had a stalker and i couldn't believe how much better i felt money situation was really bad but i was so happy that school had teachers quitting on the first day of school and subs waking out an hour into their assignment it was that bad and god forbid we hold a student accountable i'm so done i still teach but at my first school where i thought i'd be for life i got a new student he was troubled and heard voices but was very nice to me and then one day he stabbed me in the shoulder with a pen there was something called a manifestation meeting and basically they decided it's okay for him to do that my district wanted me to sign that i wouldn't press charges and wanted me to attend 40 hours of training on how to handle someone who is trying to murder you basically kidd was back in my class and tried to do it again it was the end of the school year and i had sick days so i used up enough and interviewed elsewhere i did not press charges though i now know i should have ended up at a much better school and i've been happy since good for you there is a line that should never be crossed and physical violence is that line there were several events that led to my decision first year i taught a 14 year old student grabbed my chest administration said it was my fault another student threw a book at me and hit me in the head sent her to the office she was sent right back to my class third year teaching had a student that cussed me out for looking in his direction admin didn't see it as a problem same student decided it would be a good idea to chase me around the classroom with a pair of scissors trying to stab me called sro he was back in my class the next day still in my third year husband and i were trying to get pregnant walked out of the school band concert and heard gunshots in the neighborhood events like this were just the tip of the iceberg i came to the conclusion that no job was worth my safety if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

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Length: 25min 16sec (1516 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 22 2020