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PiscesTrue Teacher Confessions: What Teachers Wish They Could Tell Parents
We gave teachers the chance to speak their minds ... and they certainly did!
Check out how teachers responded to our True Teacher Confessions request. And may this be a lesson to all of us parents: We need to support our school systems and our teachers. We also need to read to our children. Teachers are putting in the time -- and so should we!
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What she means by being “on” is it’s like being on stage. I’ve done teaching as well as other jobs. Teaching is so much harder, your brain can’t rest for a second. You are “performing” for seven hours straight with a lousy half hour (if you are lucky) for lunch. You have to jump through hoops just to pee (and pray you don’t get caught having to do so). You spend the entire day in many cases no different than a correctional officer, trying to keep the peace. It’s sheer exhaustion. Half of the year you spend your time hoarse since you are constantly “on stage performing”. It drains the body and mind. Then, the public crucifies you no matter what. You are never right and never good enough even if you are the most efficient teacher out there. Your “breaks” are spent at workshops, doing research, preparing for the next school year. Not to mention we are the “go to” house for all the kids on break since our friends all need help with childcare. We also spend $500 to $1000 a year for basic supplies like pencils, paper, expo markers, tape, our own freaking “teacher’s chair”, files, etc. since most schools don’t supply that stuff. Ask the parents to have their kids bring two pencils a day and you are looked at cross-eyed. So in turn, you get to supply 10-20 pencils a day of your own. Uggghhhh, there’s so much more but I have to go move my classroom supplies to a new room now. It’s backbreaking sweaty work that I do on my “summer break”. See ya
I don’t get why everyone thinks a teachers schedule is so easy. If you are jealous, why didn’t you just become a teacher? Oh wait, maybe it’s because they only get paid for 7 hours/day, but work 10 .
For anyone who is a mother and says a teachers job is easy, you know how hard it is to raise a few kids, imagine trying to educate and raise 30 kids! Unfortunately that is the case because many parents these days think that they don’t have to teach their child anything and leave it all up to the school. It’s exhausting!
I agree with everything these teachers are saying. This is why I do not call my son’s teacher. I do not schedule conferences. If his grades are dropping, then OK, maybe there’s a need to speak to a teacher, but I just can’t see the point in bothering her if everything is working well.
I talk to other moms who seem to be in constant daily contact with the teacher, emailing her, calling her etc. I just don’t get this attitude that your child is the only child. My son has great grades. He slips from time to time, sure. I can email his teacher, ask for a suggestion, and we go about our business.
It frees up her time to deal with the helicopter moms.
I just want to say to parents, “stop making excuses for your child and hold them accoutable for their actions and expectations that are put in place. Excuses aren’t valid in real life and choosing not to follow expectations/rules/laws isn’t an option.”
I agree with most of these, but we are the parents. If I question a teacher on something that has to do with my child or some method that is being employed within their classroom then answer it promptly and professionally. So if any move that I make affect your child at my work then you are more than welcome to come to my job and question me.
I think everything the teachers are saying is true. Parents don’t care and think their children are angels and it’s just NOT true. I also agree that teachers get paid crap and work extra long hours, the week long schools break, I’m guessing most teachers are catching up on assignments and other things. On top of that teachers are required to do continuing education classes, where do they have the time?
I homeschool my children because I think teachers are under too much pressure, have too many things going against them to be effective in the classroom. Teaching 30 kids isn’t teaching, it’s giving them worksheets, talking to the kids about things that are not interesting and just being a babysitter. I do not blame the teachers for this situation, I blame politics and crappy parents who don’t give a crap.
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OK, please. This one always makes me laugh every time I hear it. There are so many other jobs where you work 10+ a day (yes, you have to be ON, what does that even mean? Are you allowed to be OFF at other jobs?) and you don’t have summers and all these long week-long vacations off throughout the year. I have never heard of a teacher having to work holidays, in fact, they get most of the week of the holiday off. And I know working with children can be tiring, but it is a job, and yes, jobs are tiring. Also, there is a whole support system built in and teachers always get to eat lunch, sit down and many of them are home in the afternoons.
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