Leaving the classroom has been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, so why am I still struggling? I miss lesson planning and creating activities. However, I do NOT in ANY way, shape, or form miss the grading, the mean helicopter parents, or the apathy from students.
The school I left in May still has not hired anyone for my position nor many others across the district. Yet none of this is unique to this particular district as it’s happening everywhere. Our kids are going to suffer tremendously as a result of this teacher shortage.
Student: My English teacher expects us read four chapters on our own at home.
The audacity of that teacher. Meanwhile you waste an entire class period doing nothing.
@BHS_Feierabend @Beth_NOT_Betty @MsKurt3 Ah, yes, because my kids care that I have an anonymous Twitter account. Anonymous Twitter account = terrible teacher who doesn’t give a shit about her students therefore I have no relationships w/ any of my students. By the way, I think you missed the point of my original tweet.
I’m working in a school run by the students. Absolutely no consequences for their actions. Late to class for 30th time this semester? It’s ok, do better tomorrow. A kid failing literally everyone of his classes? It’s ok, he has a job and is tired — give him partial credit.
@BHS_Feierabend @Beth_NOT_Betty @MsKurt3 I’ll try all this on Monday with the 7-8 students who are 35-45 minutes late to my class every time I have them and then choose to sleep or not to do any of the work I assign. Oh, and I’ll pass this along to the other seven teachers whose classes these kids are failing as well.
@jcsmithnv A large majority of my students do have jobs, but how many days in a row do I let them sleep & not do anything before admin steps in & holds them accountable? My complaint is that we have no administrative support & no one is holding kids accountable — they are running the show.