NIGHTMARE in the CLASSROOM: why TEACHERS are QUITTING
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- Опубликовано: 20 фев 2024
- Have you watched the news lately? Have you seen what's going on in our schools? It's an absolute nightmare in the classroom, which explains why so many teachers in the United States and the UK are quitting in large numbers.
The numbers are insane. In the US, more than 300,000 public school teachers and other education-related staff quit their jobs between February 2020 and May 2022.
In this video, you'll hear from a number of former teachers who quit their job for various reasons, from a lack of respect to poor compensation. Be sure to watch all the way to the end because there is one former teacher you simply MUST see. He goes off.
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School is hell for well-mannered kids too. If you do what you are supposed to be doing at school, you get bullied.
That's why my son is homeschooled.
Facts and you barely can learn anything because majority of the class time is the teacher repeating directions and trying to get students to do right.
I pray that if I ever have children, I'll be able to do the same.@@CursiveDragon
Yes! My sister was tormented in school. She was quiet and kind and never liked to have conflict and many kids took advantage of that and made life a living hell for her.
Tell me about it lol
Those kids who are abusive should be put out of public school and their parents pay for their schooling.
In some countries it is a priviledge to go to school for free. I agree. I say forced labor at the training school for the remainder of the school year and make them know that 1 more issue after this they will be ousted from all public schools in their respective states. Administrative drop-out!
Exactly!!
When I was in school trouble makers were sent to continuation school.
@@nicolcacola yeah, there was a school for the shitty kids. It was like hunger games
Because of the special education laws in the U.S. schools cannot do that. I believe special education laws have helped to create the current mess we are in. Special education laws allow parents to sue the districts and to come after teachers and other professionals.
I taught for two years in a local middle school. I gained 40 pounds, developed adult acne, and a twitch in my face. We were a school full of violence and we had a super disrespectful administration. We were expected to attend games, dances, practices, concerts, plays, etc after school hours and if you don’t then “you don’t care about the kids”. As a new teacher I was working super early and late to make my class effective, but I was told I didn’t do enough because I wasn’t seen at these events every week.
My husband, who was my fiancé at the time, said he had watched it destroy me and said as long as I could work and contribute in some way to our finances he didn’t care if I quit. I resigned and went to work at a bank as a teller. I made more money and had a set schedule with zero after work responsibilities. I will never go back.
Teaching is a soul-crushing experience!
I'm so sorry you went through that!
I was a Registered Nurse for years and had many coworkers tell me that I should have sought a teaching profession. They were not saying that I was not a good nurse they just saw that I had patience and could explain things easily. Heck, I was a transplant specialists and ran Dialysis Units!!!! I burned out of Nursing and left it. Thought about going back to school in 2019 then the "Spamdemic". Was told I'd have to get those "experimental injections" to even go back to Nursing or seek a job as a Nursing Professor/Teacher. Phttttt! I'm NOT gonna screw with MY health for a Govt. experiment! I REALLY DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH PATIENCE!!!! I make lots less $ now but LOVE my job working for a major Grocer as a Floral Manager!
@@user-od6tx9ny3o That sounds like a wise decision. At my age, I now realize that life goes by so quickly. So we should do those things that we enjoy. I'm a computer technician for a school district. But sometimes I wish I would have done something else, like be a custodian. I personally find it enjoyable and relaxing to clean.
what does the first 2 things you gained have to do with the school tho 💀 i think that’s on you
In my town, in the late 1980s, there was a case of a 15 year old student that spit on a teacher- he did it repeatedly (in one incident). The 3rd time, the teacher (220 pound male) broke the student's jaw with one punch. The parents of that student had a hearing before a judge to try to force the district attorney to press charges against the teacher. The judge called it self defense and told the parents he wished he could have them arrested for raising such "disrespectful garbage" (his actual words).
Damn right.
That makes me so happy, I wish it could be like that again
@@ravenID429 if this happened today, the teacher would be fired, charged and convicted while the student gets a suspension.
Nice😅
@@SokkaoftheWaterTribemay not even get suspended
I don't blame the teachers for quitting. The current generation of students have no home training. The Parents don't care, but will cuss out the teachers for their children's failure.
That's why the American school system is screwed due to the fact schools are passing kids along and the parents don't care.
A generation of mannerless juvenile delinquents that think they're privileged without earning it. Not all of course but too many and they're getting away with it.
They will soon be adults the Democrat party will make excuses for their horrible behavior
The obvious solution is to teach kids they can be non binary,gender is a social construct and socialism is good
Which prior generation was better? 🤔
Totally agree. Society is going into a devolution.
Students who get violent must be expelled and forced to learn at home.
The goverment do not like your idea, they need the parents working non stop.
As much as I agree with you, in the
school I'm at, they get snacks and a
quiet time in the principals office.
Their parents are not notified at all.
@@user-pd1sh1pv7g - I'm not surprised.
Yeah, let's discriminate against some kids because of their parents. What is this? North Korea?
@@sebastian2zen - So allowing violent kids who harm other kids and teachers to remain in classrooms the OPPOSITE of North Korea????
The violent kids who assault teachers and students being treated softly 🙄 I got expelled in 9th grade for being suicidal and my abusive bullies got to stay 😒 that still makes my blood boil to this day 😡
As a recently retired teacher, I can say that waking up and not being tired is AMAZING. I encourage every teacher capable of retiring, or doing something else, to do so IMMEDIATELY.
This is year 26...I have to endure for 4 more years to get my 30 years in. I hope I can hang in there! Enjoy your retirement, you deserve it!
@@edubwalter3179I pray your final years of hell improve even slightly! May the students be kind and not suck out your soul ❤
@@edubwalter3179 I'm starting Year 30 in September. Private School, so there's no "getting my thirty years in." I'll retire when I can afford it- six more years.
Retired teacher from England here.
I don't have to put up with the bullshit anymore.
🇬🇧🇺🇸
@@edubwalter3179 I left with 21 years. Why do you need to hang on for 30?
lost my job and almost got arrested for defending myself from 2 kids roaming the hallways. tried to get them back in class or down to the office..They decided to gang up on me . I got hit over and over again , knocked me down and started to stomp me.. They stop long enough for me to get up and wipe the blood off my face . I lost it and I destroyed one of them and the other ran away.. I got fired on the spot.. If not for the video of what happened I probably would have been charged..
OMG! I can't believe you experienced that. You should sue the school, or the students' parents Those students could have killed you!
Facts💯
Ironic that you have Batman pfp. Laid the smack down on those two hooligans lol.
I'm so sorry what you must gone through. I hope you find a better and saftier job. If you love to teach, be a teacher in a prison. It's sounds crazy, but inmates are better mannerd and respectfull than this spoiled brat psychos in public school. A teacher wrote he was a babysitter for psychos at his time as teacher in a public school. He quit and became a teacher in a prison and never ever want to go back. The inmates really want to learn and want build a future.
Why you playing get back like a gang member, bro? Let it go, man.
“You have summers’ off”, no they don’t. When I was working in a restaurant, teachers had to get a summer job to get through life. They don’t have their summers off
Yeah. Summers off. No pay. That’s sooo great. If they live in a state that has shit teacher salary, it’s never off. 😓
Plus they spend some of that time planning and preparing for the next school year and doing professional development so they can renew their certification when it expires.
Also, they no longer have 3 months off. Usually it's just 4 weeks or 1 month they have out of school for the Summer and as you stated above they're taking on a 2nd job to make ends meet. They got rid of everything that once made Teaching rewarding.
I have summers off with pay. Clark County School District in Las Vegas, NV. Everywhere is different. I’m off from May 22nd and I go back in early August.
Idk it depends on the school district my mother was a Detroit school teacher and did boot have to work in the summer
I took my teen out of public school a month ago and I have seen such a tremendous positive change in my son, his attitude and his outlook on life… also hoping he continues down this path lol. He’s been homeschooled for about a month now. He went from literally having no hope, not wanting to be alive, hating everything and everyone to setting goals, working out, he has even cooked dinner 3x this week 🤯 he spends way more time outside of his room.
As a student, I blame social media.
Social media, especially some places, are not only participating in, but are actively encouraging violence.
Furthermore, I used to go to a school for delinquents. But, I have done many things I regret heavily.
If any of the teachers I've hurt and verbally abused, I am so sorry. I can't forgive myself. 9 years later, I still cant.
Even now, I cant control myself and end up yelling. And its making me more and more miserable every day.
I absolutely agree. Social media plays a HUGE role in the crap we see going on.
And as a parent....I couldn't disagree more. This is on US. I have a social media ban in my house for exactly this reason. Other parents should do the same, as is their responsibility.
@@MidnightDrake everyone can change, it is within you if you truly want to. It’s about progress, not perfection. There are free resources to learn skills to cope with your emotions, for your mental health, for anger management, etc. You don’t have to be labelled by your past actions, and clearly you have the capacity to change and for critical thinking because you feel bad about your past actions. You’re the only one who can make the change and your life will improve when you self reflect and put in the effort to improve your life. You can do it! ❤
We just had a teacher beaten to the point of a brain injury recently. They are not talking about her condition. Of course, the lawyer who is representing the "student" says he was given some drug by a friend that made him crazy, so they are fighting to keep the case in the juvenile court system. He might have permanently injured this teacher, and he could be walking the streets in a few short years. Ridiculous!
It's crazy. A kid at my school got expelled after many years of violent and agressive attitude only after hitting a teacher. I don't know the specifics but I heard the parents came to beg the teacher not to sue.
I have so many questions.
Who gave him the drug
What drug as it?
What dumbass administration neglected to conduct checks AFTER the incident?
Was a drug test administered, and if result was positive, what was it positive for?
But it's all the teacher's fault
@@chrispham6599Coroner's office tests indicate the teen had nothing in his system. If you want to follow the case, just google "WLWT teacher beaten by student".
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Oh my goodness that's sad!
I met someone recently, who is a counselor at a school. I asked why they don’t get rid of students who consistently disrupt the class and/or are violent towards the teacher or others in the classroom. This person‘s response was, well those kids deserve an education too. In most areas of society, if a person acts violently, or is disruptive, we boot them out. They forfeit the privilege of being a part of an activity or group if they are unable to adhere to civil norms. A school should be no different.
This is precisely why public schooling is doomed.
That's the problem with our society. People think that people "deserve" things, just because. No one "deserves" an education. An education is a privilage. Especially when you aren't paying for it. The only solution is to dissolve public schools. If parents want their kids to learn, they can homeschool them or take them to a private school.
Like totally dude! All we need to do is to convert the majority of the voters to embrace the libertarian take on education. But I would anticipate it taking more of a brick & mortar online academy administered in the church basement where the AA meetings are held with part time volunteer tutors and so forth. This notion that school teachers can learn shit for indifferent kids is so wrong it borders on psychosis: most people are not only dull, but violently anti-intellectual truth be told.@@nerychristian
I agree w what the counselor said. But we also have online. Let it be for the parent to deal with. And let them pay for it too.
And they do not care that teachers are leaving because of behaviors.
I dream of quitting, but I have 25 years in. I am 50 and I tried to find another job this year, but my age keeps people from hiring me. I have worked a second retail job for the last 23 years and Texas teacher retirement is the second worst in the country. I regret going to college and becoming a teacher. I wish I had gone to a trade school. College is too expensive to become a teacher.
The more I hear about Texas the more thankful I am to my parents for moving to California when I was three. At least I canmake 134k while I sit here in my 5th grade classroom with behavior problems....and it's almost unbearable.
Try Ed Tech companies....tutoring....Varsity Tutors, Catapult Learning for example...there is LIFE after the classroom!!!!!!!! And, I'm 58!!!!!!
As a high school senior, I don't even see half of the problems that my teachers have, but I can say that I can hardly fathom some of the things that my peers have done. They say some of the worst things to our teachers, refuse to do any work or participate in class, and last school year, a few sophomores started a fire in the back of the science classroom with hand sanitizer and a lighter that they smuggled in! One of my teachers said that he received death threats from parents and the administration told him not to worry, that they "probably won't do anything."
That sounds about right.
HORRIFYING! It's Psychology 101 that bad actions DEMAND some CONSEQUENCES. These violent kids are being taught they can "get away with it"--and are on the road to prison.
I was a substitute in Oregon. I have a Master's degree. It's an absolute clown show. Pull your kids from public school. It's crap!
Absolutely! I tell ppl all the time that if they can afford private school or can do homeschooling, DO IT
Hi neighbor. For me where I’m at it’s umm an odd “restorative justice”.
Private doesn’t mean it’s automatically better. There are crappy, overpriced private schools too. And many offer poor or no benefits or retirement for teachers
Preach yazz clapping hands
Public schools are just baby sitting places while the parents work 2 jobs to be able to barely survive 😅
They should be expelled and charged criminally for assaulting their teachers. As for verbal abuse they should be suspended and based on the manner of what was said then they should be charged.
Oh man. I teach middle school. I’d be writing up kids every day for the talking back and disrespect. It’s a catch 22 issue. You look like the complainer teacher if you write a referral all the time, but if you don’t, you risk kids doing it all the time. Light punishments for write ups are part of the problem.
When I was in high school our friend group didn't care about school and were rats running around causing trouble, but at least we still respected our teachers. Even in all our BS we still had the understanding that the teachers were just trying to do their jobs and respected kids who wanted to be there and learn. Never once was there an assault on a teacher.
They threw out disciplinary actions, saying it was racist & a school to prison pipeline... The kids quickly realized the teachers have no authority..
So when I was in high school my high school was named one of the most dangerous high schools (over exaggerated but I digress) we had a bunch of huge fights where police got involved over a short period of time. But in all of the chaos the students were always respectful to teachers and school staff and school safety. And when teachers called parents ( sometimes they did it in class) the parents always took the side of the teacher. I don’t know when all of this changed but it’s real sad
Absolutely. It seems like consequences for violence have been thrown out the window in recent years.
I'm a teacher. You'd be surprised how bad this career is. The kids literally try to bully teachers now.
As a teacher coming from another career, I highly advise you not to quit. The real world is still worst. If the administration is good, you can write the kids up. If the admin is bad, just go in, assign work, and sit down. A bad administration just doesn't want any fuss anyway. As long as they aren't hearing anything out of your class, they won't care that you are not teaching. Just make sure the kids don't kill eachother.
This.. as a high schooler this breaks my heart.
Last year in my math class a girl attacked the teacher for taking her phone (she hid it in a calculator sleeve.) it was the final exam. We all just were shocked and I have no idea what happened to the girl.
This reminded me of the teacher who was shot by a 6year old student last year. Can you imagine being shot by a 6 year old? That woman may never step into classroom ever again and I wouldn't blame her.
How on earth did a 6 yo get a gun? Where are the parents??
I teach elementary school and I’m not at all surprised that a 6 year old brought a weapon to school.
Yep she had told administrators about him threatening her and they dismissed her. After she was shot they still didn’t support her.
@@abbyjohnson206 that’s insane and bad behavior on the administration she needs to sue the district
@@shawnahall7246 it’s beyond toxic, administrators will fire a teacher before they take the time to support them.
Home schooling will be the future of successful children.
Despite many problems, homeschooling is the only solution today
So successful children will come from rich families?
Not a fan of home schooling. I believe children do need interaction with other children and adults. I am in favor of charter schools and private schools. American public schools are the worst.
I agree children need to interact with other children. There are all kinds of home school groups and home school kids can participate in the local schools sports.
You don't have to be rich to home school. People get caught up on traditional schedules. When you home school, you make the schedule. Also I think that our kids are our most important contribution to society and we need to be willing to make sacrifices for their well being. The public schools in the States are pretty crappy.
My Mom was a teacher for about 15 years. All of those years were in the special education program. A majority of those years were spent in the public school system and the last of her time was spent in a private school system. The straw that broke the camel’s back was when the problem child assaulted my Ma and said student went on to do over $5,000 of damages to her classroom. All because the student was told no to something. At first charges were not filed but after I saw the bruises, marks, pictures of the damages and the security footage, I made sure my Ma filled charges.
Students used to be escorted out of the school in handcuffs by police 👮♂️
Yes, as in past tense. Not anymore though, because if teachers try to stop violent kids, teachers will be excorted in handcuffs.
Just because a teacher "doesn't get into the profession for money, but to...blah blah blah..." THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY DON'T NEED AN INCOME TO LIVE. Just because someone wants to teach children to grow up to be intelligent adults doesn't mean that they don't need to pay rent/mortgage, eat/feed their family, buy clothing, go to the doctor, etc.
THANK YOU. Literally everybody works a job for the money. That is the entire point. We need to stop being so dense and idiotic that we shame people for wanting to be paid well.
THANK YOU!!
Arguably, teachers should be paid WAY more, especially since a good teacher is significant to a student experience! If they are scared of people getting into the profession just for money, they should just be pickier with the teachers they put on the job!
Exactly! Plus it’s so hypocritical! A doctor gets paid well despite the fact they are there to save/help people yet a teacher gets paid peanut shells and expected to not complain because they are teaching and in some cases support kids
@@HaruDoneYet well, I find that the salaries of doctors and nurses are definitely fair, I would argue maybe a bit higher would be nice… but teachers are so underpaid for what they do is crazy! And the social workers and Guidance Counselors!! I would be in a horrible state if it weren’t for my guidance counselors helping me and calling me over once a week to make sure I was ok…
My daughters teacher WALKED OUT the classroom because she couldn’t take the abuse from the a-hole kids smfh she showed me the video of them cussing and throwing crap at her, those kids did get kicked out though 👍🏼
If you like the teacher, why don't you hire her to homeschool your kids? Does somebody else have to pay for it?
This is the same thing happening in the healthcare field. Over worked, under paid the mental, emotional and physical stress is unreal. School need to be online and let there parents deal with the monster most of them have created. I can truly feel for teachers.
That’s exactly what I said. I feel that they should have a digital alternative school. Put those kids who are constantly in trouble in school, whose parents don’t want to be reached or found and put them back home.
My mother is a teacher, dealing with a 1st grade class that is full of behaviors. On top of that, she is constantaly expected to be PERFECT. When something, half the time she has little to no control over, goes wrong, she is ridiculed for it by arrogant Co-workers. I always still constantly see my mom doing school work and lesson plans after school at home. On the way home, she rants about how awful her day was nearly everyday. Being a teacher is an underpayed, underrespected, and a difficult job that most people misunderstand!
After a student becomes aggressively violent, they should be transferred to a reform school, that has strong security that wont allow bad behavior. Make it so serious the students wont risk behaving violently. We need to provide children with a safe, productive environment.
We’ve done that. They only have to go for a certain amount of time, then they go back to their school!
Seems to me that if they have to go to reform school for a while....then get sent back to their school....and behave like that again, then they should be suspended from any public school FOR LIFE....And if the parents, the family, the supporters, the advocates, etc. don't like it, then.....TO BAD FOR THEM. The message to the misbehaving students AND parents should be that _We, the rational, sane, morally inclined people in society, WILL NOT TOLERATE THAT BEHAVIOR!_ .....I don't know, just my opinion.....😄@@Grandmaw438
We have alternative schools for rough students and we tried it. There was some good results from it.
THOSE STUDENT TROUBLEMAKER LIKE TRADE SCHOOL ! THEY LIKE LEARN TO WORK WITH THE HANDS
@@lo4256 Agreed. A lot of them are ADHD too. They get bored fast then start to cause disruptions. I’ve worked with junior high students as a teacher, mostly 7th and 8th graders. My school had classes in agriculture, where they learned to grow plants, mostly vegetables, then sold the plants. We had Home Economics and cooking, computer science and a few others that offered a break from book learning. These helped. But we have kids in elementary schools now that are violent. We had to open a school just for them! Years ago, we just had to worry about high school kids, now it’s every age, even kindergartners! I’m not sure what the answer is but I believe, even at an early age they need to be disciplined. They need to understand their actions have consequences. I don’t mean “spanking,” I mean age appropriate discipline. I also think we need to explore their mental health and no, I’m not a drug advocate. We need to understand the whole child, not just the anger.
If it makes you happier, we have the same problem here in Portugal. Old teachers are retiring, and young people don't want to take the profession because they know kids are impossibly ill raised.
This actually makes me more unhappy knowing it's not just us, but other children in other places too.
I wonder if having more access in what's happening in the world around us through our devices shines light on an issue that always has been, or if social media and bad influences in the media are making kids this way.
@@RachelJamesS_ I'm 65, the way I was brought up ALL grownups were to be respected: the grocer, the maid, the cleaning woman, the shop workers, everybody. The ones in your family were on the same level as your teachers. And if they corrected you, you should obey them. No, we weren't oppressed, and we were not traumatised. We grew up like human beings. Not the feral children you see today.
Best memories I have are mealtimes with my siblings and parents. We all talked at the same time, and sometimes it was hilarious! But don't you dare to say food wasn't good and forget your table manners.
My parents sent us to school to learn, my parents never had to be called there, you would be in big trouble.
Best regards from Lisbon, you are not alone.
It’s all by design
Same thing in France. We've reached a level of violence never reached before with two teachers slaughtered, the teachers are terrified to be sent in "unsafe" places, they get spat on , insulted , hit, threatened them and their family, just for trying to give instruction to children. they're not just leaving noone is joining. The real reasons (violence, disrespect, terror) are never adressed but everybody knows why. I find very weird these global crisis, things happening in the same way, same time in every western country. Same for "hospital crisis", "housing crisis" ..
@@backintimealwyn5736 This is the heartbreaking reality of evil and it’s almost as if it’s been deliberately planned globally while we are not allowed to protect ourselves and our children from it - for all its problems, the 1970’s when I was a child and the 1980’s when I was a teenager in Rural Ireland were way better than today by horrific comparison - as an older Irish gay man and a traditional Catholic myself, I am sickened and disgusted, because this was never the kind of gay rights and equality I ever supported the struggle for, to destroy children’s lives before they have even started and the same goes for leftist and Marxist ideology that ultimately serve the globalist deep state via global communism
The Nightmare is not in the classroom. The classroom is the Nightmare!
You can give your all at the expense of your physical and mental health and school leaders still won’t appreciate all that you do.
Facts
My mother retired in 2022 after 30 years of working in the school system. She was 76 at the time. She has been attacked, spat at, threatened by a parent, and her school district did not protect her. She was in her mid 60s when it started. Her bones have been broken at least three times.
God bless your mother for going thru all that. I hope she's enjoying retirement.
She was a brave and caring lady to keep going I hope she is very happy in her retirement.
OMG.
That's horrible!
Sounds like the demographics in her district changed. I moved my kids to the schools on the less diverse side of town. All the behavioral issues from other students I witnessed in my kids’ classes magically went away.
I left too and I’m homeschooling my own kids. Got tired of wasting my time on kids that didn’t want to learn, had terrible behaviors, physically abusing, and consistently disturbed the class. Additionally, you couldn’t address the student because administrators or parents enabled the bad behaviors.
I was a good kid (modestly speaking) and, instead of addressing the bully, I got told to see things from my bully's perspective.
@@jonathanschubert9052 I was told off once by a teacher for telling other kids to let me listen to the lesson. True story. I was so confused. She even called my mom. Apparently, I was not very likable, because I kept on asking kids to be quiet. I was also told off for ignoring my bully. Apparently, not responding to sexual remarks was very rude of me.
@@teona819 that's so messed up... This world doesn't make any sense
yep!!! had the exact same experience left and didn’t look back
These. Kids are going to have a rude awakening
I think that parents need to be held responsible for their children’s behavior. When I WAS in the classroom, I saw no follow through on discipline. I dealt more with defending myself when a parent made excuses for their child. The parents often help their child further disrespect teachers.
Complete agreement.
Oftentimes, for the unruly students they are not receiving proper home training. Parents and administrators need to held accountable.
He was talking about how teachers weren't being heard and someone on the board had the nerve to say it's been 3 minutes your time is up.....wow!
Right! The complete, audacious disrespect!
Democracy is also an idea... The leaders rule, the rest put up; what else would you expect?
The web is weaved of bull!
The school board is trash but, I believe legally they have to have time limits and announce them. I could be wrong. But mainly they give time limits so that people aren’t complaining for 20 minutes straight. If everyone vented for 10+ minutes you would never get out of that meeting 😂
I was focused on that statement as well. How insensitive!
I'm a bus driver. A grandmother of a kid just told me I was too mean to the kids, and they were afraid of me. They go home and lie to their parents when you try to get them to act right on the bus. It can get loud and out of control
quickly. I have tried almost everything. These kids are not used to following rules. They do what they want whenever they want. As soon as an adult puts their foot down, the kids are thrown off. It starts at home. These kids know their parents will always intervene. I have had enough. I am catching now in different languages!! This is in America.
I Know - I was a School Bus Driver - We Drivers are HELD to the Same Standards as an Airline Pilot - but are treated like SHITE! If One of those precious cargo behaved on a Jet, they way they behave on the Bus - the Pilot would land the Jet and have the Brat arrested by TSA!
@@glindathegood4007 Right!!!
Yeh that’s a thing now you mean grumpy but never tell what they did
@@glindathegood4007 So true. The problem is our laws. Unfortunately, they coddle minors. Even when they are teenagers, they treat them like children, and don't hold them accountable for their actions. If any teenager is involved in a violent altercation, he should immediately be arrested and thrown in jail.
I talk about automating the schools but my darkest thoughts drift toward the infertility crisis and how it will eventually become necessary to pay women to have babies then homeschool them with the public schools shuttered permanently. How about paying mothers $10,000 per year per kid to homeschool as an incentive for breeding? That would be only half the cost of running the current system. And you wouldn’t need to worry about them causing traffic accidents by rioting on the school buses.
Honestly, our education system has been failing for years and instead of improving things, they only made it worse.
I had a friend of mine. His wife quit teaching after five years. She had a student that acted out in class. The child’s parents came in and said it wasn’t their child, even though she’s in the same room as the child. They pointed fingers at her and said everything was her fault. Come to find out the parents were going through a nasty divorce, and the child was just acting out. So the next day she quit and never went back to teaching.
I'm a millennial. Back in my school days in Korea, our teachers would smack our palms with a ruler if we didn't do our homework or made us get on our knees outside the classroom hallway with our arms up for 10 minutes. That didn't make us hate our teachers. We still respected them because they really loved and cared about us. They bought their students food and I still have the comic books that my teacher bought me 20 years ago. What's more important is the environment the kids grew up with. Asian cultures and family values are definitely different than the US. Our parents believe education is important, and teachers should be respected, but sadly, I see the failure in the US with how the kids are raised in our current generation.
Born and raised in America and I can tell you that you're absolutely right. I'm gen x and I can't believe how drastically education has declined. It's sad.
I agree. Unfortunately a lot of teachers call CPS if a parent disciplined the kids the way we were. Of course parents aren’t going to discipline with a ruler or belt or anything else when they risk getting their kids taken away. The state of the country is so sad!!
Kids got the paddle when I was in school. Never heard of a teacher being attacked back then.
@@HappyhippodromeI’m Gen X too and I’m shocked!! It didn’t use to be this way. No discipline and being given trophies for things the kid didn’t even accomplish.
I'm a millennial and this is almost exactly my experience with my teachers in the Caribbean.
I have been teaching for 35 years and everything that has been said is beyond true. I can finally take early retirement and on June 30, 2024 I will be free from the toxic bureaucracy they call education. It’s time to do me and feel NO guilt at all.
God bless you! Anyone who can do 35 years deserves all the wonderful things in life...enjoy your retirement! This is year 26 for me with 4 more to go!
What a 35 years to be in education! I’ll bet you’ve got some crazy stories. I’ve got 21 years here, hard to believe.
Congratulations 🎉
Ooh, I’m going to retire in July-I wish you all the luck-and as a parent, I thank you and all teachers for all you do.
My son (he’s grown now) said that he felt bad for teachers dealing with bad kids.
He was fortunate enough to get into a college prep high school (you have to apply, and they accept based on grades and behavior).
His high school was so much better-because the kids were there to learn, and what they learned was so much better-why? Because the teachers can actually do the job they were trained to do, not babysitting bad kids.
And now if a group of students attacks a teacher in Wisconsin, the teacher better not fight back
I left the profession about 20 years ago and I will never return. In fact, I told my children do not ever become a teacher EVER
Ever
I was a School Guidance Counselor in New York for middle and high schools. In 5 years I was over it. I loved the kids the work was endless and thankless.
I had a teacher who was a former Army officer, and a policeman in Uganda during the colonial era. He had presence, and could silence a whole class of rowdy kids with a look, and putting his hand on his desk drawer. . He was rumoured to have a slipper in the drawer of his desk, but no one ever saw it, and he never had to use it. He never raised his voice, except once, when the "school bully" was acting up in the corridor. He shouted out his surname, like he was on a parade ground, and picked him up by his collar and marched him to the headmaster's office. This was a time when the headmaster could dish out corporal punishment on the spot, it changed about 6 years after that.
I recognized this over 20 years ago when I worked as a substitute teacher. my thoughts were if you had military training or served on the police force these ,would be good training skills to work with kids in some of these public schools. They only respect those that show strength. like they would eat them alive. Its a jungle in the schools.
@@user-jo9kz5sq1z These kids need to be put in military school. Only a drill sargent can handle these kids
The public thinks an army drill sargent would have no problem controlling a class of unruly high shool kids. They are utterly WRONG. In the army they can ultimately exact physical punishment on trainees if need be. A teacher is NOT allowed to touch a kid. The kids would just laugh and mock him, and there's nothing he could do about it. We had a guy like this at the first school I taught at, a middle school. Halfway through the first day he was there, he picked up a desk at through it at a kid and was escorted off campus! lol
@@j.d.waterhouse4197most teachers actually are believe it or not
Baby Boomer here. I just can’t associate this teaching reality with my ancient experience. In my public elementary and middle schools kids got paddled by wooden paddles for misbehavior!
A teacher's assistant just died recently because of an "interaction" with a special needs student. He "fell down" and died a few days later. This is heartbreaking.
What did the assistant do?
@@SMCwasTaken Think about it.
"Fell down" the words fell down imply it was an accident, however the air quotes imply that it WASNT an accident. So them falling wasnt an accident and was intended.
Connect the dots from there.
@@MidnightDrake but I want to know what did the assistant do first
Abüs3 in sped classes isn't uncommon
Someone was reported dead? :0
Yes, sir, reports say he "fell down, and died a few days later" :)
I...didn't know that could happen.
Actually, it's super easy, barely an inconvenience. :)
Oh, really? Well whoops! :D
Whoopsie! :D
Not as many people talk about being afraid of school shootings. It’s in the back of my mind all the time.
The disrespect during contract negotiations did it to me… I quit after 17 years.
It would take being spit on once to not only quit, but end up in jail.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Same!!!!
A friend of mine from high school, a disturbed misfit who eventually committed suicide, got an entire year in prison for spitting on a cop who told her to extinguish her cigarette at the Cleveland Hopkins Airport. Why is it that kids are allowed to spit on teachers if the general public goes to prison for spitting on cops?
"Work won't love you back." -Anne Helen Petersen
I quit after 10 years. I'm part of your cited statistic. It's impossible to have a healthy personal headspace if you're in a K-12 school.
This should have many more Likes. I'm in year 29 and half my class is just not too concerned and a couple are such constant cussers and disruptors that I don't like being at my school at all anymore. Kind of like a prison sentence.
This system is unsustainable.
Powerful video....most folks have NO IDEA what it is really like to be a teacher...and what REALLY goes on in classrooms across America.
Thank you so much for watching. I can only imagine what teachers go through.
The issue is indeed that parents have stopped respecting the authority of the educator in the classroom. Of course their children will also show disrespect.
I never respected authority but I was always a well behaved child in the classroom because I simply had empathy for teachers and respected their time as well as my own.
I'm a teacher. This is my third year working in Elementary school and I'm ready to find a different career. I cannot take the absolute disrespect and rude behaviors from these kids anymore. I literally dread going into work every single day. I feel like I'm just babysitting wild hyenas. It's like a nightmare.
Really, I was trained to teach, not preside over a laboratory of social pathology.
@@susanhudgens5192 I totally agree with you. I don't even feel like a teacher. It feels like I work at a zoo where the wild animals have gone amuck.
Get out at the end of a school year. It will NOT get better! Once you get older it will be harder to get a job because you aren't young.
Same as a TA I’m counting down the days. It’s my second year and I NEVEr want to return to the classroom. The disrespect is out of this world and even worse because I am an a assistant
I had a third grade teacher that used to cry everyday because of how bad the kids were. THIRD GRADE!! She would literally give me money because I was the only one in her class that behaved. I had to drop out of school & get my GED because public school caused me to develop severe anxiety disorders to the point where I would have a panic attack every morning before school. I am absolutely disgusted & petrified for these teachers honestly.
I have some super disrespectful classmates at middle school. They constantly interrupt the teachers, act stupid, roam around the halls, etc. An officer even said they behave worse than kindergartners. 2 of the worst things I see any of the bad students do are these.
I got my backpack stolen and hidden SEVERAL times. The first time it happened, I freaked out, asking everyone who took my backpack, all the while my horrible classmates just laughed at my reaction. It has gotten so bad that every time need to leave the classroom, I give my backpack to my 7th-period teacher to guard it because we both know that the kids would attempt to steal it and hide it again.
One of the same students who stole my backpack stole a keycard from a hall pass(the one used to open doors) and flushed that keycard down a toilet in the restrooms at school.
I'm sorry you have to live through that - school used to be an enjoyable experience (even though we all grumbled about it).
Then we were told you can't spank a child. You can't hold them back if act like clowns and don't do their work. We can't even make them leave the classroom when they disrupt class for everyone.
Remember this when you're an adult and can vote for a school board (or run to be on one).
Bullies are afraid of a principal with a paddle.
Kids who don't want to be educated shouldn't be in the classroom - we need reform schools again.
Kids who DO want their education should be able to learn in peace.
@@aprilmills5925 i used to think that paddling students was horrible
but after all this gen alpha stuff... maybe paddling isnt a bad idea after all
@@bcbdjane The problem is, you have to start much earlier than this. If there is no respect for the parents, there will be no respect for any authority figure.
@@aprilmills5925 o
Kids who are physically violent, expelled.
Kids who are verbally abusive, 3-5 day suspension, a written letter of apology, and probation (6-12 grade). Elementary is different because they’re so young, but something along these lines.
I anticipate that the some parts of the population will be less educated, more prone to being addicted to entertainment, drugs, and alcohol, more prone to crime, and have an even greater level of undeserved entitlement.
They won’t even let them expel or suspend kids from school anymore. There is no discipline for kids at all anymore
Masses are easier to control when they're uneducated and don't think too much in general.
I wouldn’t say “something along these lines” for elementary schools lmao. Elementary schoolers don’t know any better, even the most well behaved kids will slip up at that age because of how young they are and how little they understand about the world. Plus to an extent, children retaliating against each other with physical violence is to be expected, it’s not like a 6 year old is able to understand the concept of thinking before you act perfectly.
I’d say the protocol for them should be the same as it was when I was a kid. The majority of them should be put in time outs to think about what they did, while the repeat offenders should have their recess/free time privileges taken or something. Definitely not suspension though.
@@kyleinthejar6829 I took the "something along those lines" to mean using the same progression of actions to determine how they get reprimanded, but to assign a different level of punishment more appropriate to their age.
In kindergarten my school would have time out inside the classroom, attended to by an aide so the teacher would keep doing their job.
In the first and second grades we would be put in the hallway with the aide and would have to be able to explain what we did wrong to get back into class. Those aides would assist with any lesson we missed over the course of that week to ensure we stayed caught up.
In third to fifth grade, detentions existed and they were served during lunch. Lunch in detention consisted of a choice between 2-3 types of sandwiches, a carton of milk or juice, and a fruit. No hot lunch was served to the detention room and no student was allowed to talk to anyone but the attending teacher or aide.
Back then(I'm 34) every classroom had an aide and parents mostly accepted that discipline was a norm and allowed it Now, classrooms don't have aides and the parents often refuse to allow their children to be disciplined. Something as simple as "put away your phone" or "please sit down" and the parent is threatening the teacher's job.
Society NEEDS more homeschooling and more responsibility for their own children. People need to be accountable for how they are raising their children.
Parents need to stop thinking that school is daycare
Most people that have children are uneducated and ignorant
My grandkids are about to be pulled from brick and mortar school. They're 7 and 5, I am ECSTATIC! My 7 year old has anxiety, it's semi private but the rowdy class and tons of writing no excursions, no plays singing art... things we loved at school are nowhere to be seen. Hello homeschool!!
I totally agree. They all should be at home, they are not mature enough to be in school, cursing and telling the teacher what they are not going to do. Sucks
Oh that’s cute. What a nice sentiment. Take a family who has to have a two parent income or a single mom who has to work multiple jobs to keep a roof over her children’s head and then tell them they are not doing enough and should “Homeschool” school their children. Something that if done adequately takes several hours a day of dedicated time and that is if your child has the ability to actually sit and learn in that environment.
I don't get parents who think it's okay for their kids to misbehave. I see this in a neighborhood with seven private schools. The kids are not allowed in local stores because they all shoplift, they block sidewalks, tag buildings and harass the older residents. But no one is allowed to complain, call the police or demand the kids behave because the parents threaten you. I can only imagine how much worse it is in the classroom.
teaching is a thankless profession. my high school had such a huge impact on my life that after 6 years i still stay in contact with them. i was sure to let them know the importance and gratitude that i have for them. they inspired me to work with kids on weekends so i can give what my teachers gave me which is love and respect.
I am 24 and from an East European country. I remember students making teachers cry. Some teachers could not teach because students would not shut up. I was a straight-A student. It was tough to study due to the feral behavior of other students. Every day I came home irritated and super tired. By the way, If you behaved and did what teachers asked, you would become a target for the bullies. One time, I was cornered and harassed for getting a good grade and making others look bad. My friend was groped in the toilet by other girls. If you are a well-mannered kid, school is hell for you too.
I call kids like that pack of demons they are not kids
It reminds me of the 1970s era navy where stoners would get everyone pissed off by continually making obscene phone calls to the lifer’s wives when we were idled in the shipyard. All you could do was sneak over to the naval intelligence office to rat the fuckers out secretly to provoke a drug raid by the Air Police from a neighboring Air Force base now deactivated. I put in a chit to de-volunteer from subs than also ratted the captain out for ignoring a navy doctor who wrote “remove from submarines” in my medical jacket. I finally got out and joined the merchant marine instead. Teaching GED at Job Corps and community college was equally grotesque so I went to barber college ultimately. When it all sucks it’s time to quit.
@@marcmeinzer8859 It’s Like very decade has a different kind of group of kids that still are equally destructive, irritating & annoying.
The first time I taught was nearly 5 decades ago and I was so underwhelmed I went to the navy recruiter and didn’t even put in for OCS but signed up immediately as an enlisted Quartermaster then foolishly volunteered for sub duty. Then when I got out I taught for 7 years. I could hack it but thought it was a shit job at all four places I taught. So I was a job hopper. But I always refused to take any work home with me. I made them do all their reading in class to make sure that they did it. I would do all my planning and grading while they read. I had the highest pass rate on the state GED at two different institutions. Ended up shipping out with the merchant marine and never taught ever again. Ended up as a barber for 20 years. It’s pretty pathetic when barbering is a superior job to teaching school. The merchant marine was fabulous but I got stuck making voyages to the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea over and over again actually steering the ship through the middle of a giant anti-American demonstration which was busted up by Egyptian troops with tanks and APCs. If we’d been rocketed by an RPG we would’ve blasted a forty mile wide crater in the middle of the canal since we were loaded with 10,000 tons of Air Force bombs. Still preferable to teaching ghetto high school in Cleveland. The public schools will end up getting converted into brick & mortar online academy so shitty has it become today.@@ann6878
like, i just want to get through science, not punch you.
This is why I homeschool. I don't want my kids subjected to any of this, either.
Good my lil bro too. I teach kids in homeschool home ec and culinary plus with thw help of my chef. And staffing agencies aid for traffic and give kids a chance
Great content! Accurate. As a former teacher, I experienced every reason for teachers leaving for myself. I taught 11 years. It's sad that even when you want to make it work the humanity of me is burned out of the never-ending need to do more. You can't say no. Saying no to any extra task is equal quitting the job.
Speaking of this teacher problem, maybe that’s why I couldn’t get a club started…Because, no joke, all of the teachers I liked said no to it because they were too busy or tired. It’s so sad.
I got bullied a lot in elementary by kids who just had no business being there. The problem is mandatory attendance. It causes the majority of teacher attention to go to the students with the least to gain from that attention. This school violence would go away near entirely if kids who didn't want to be there didn't have to be.
Also if parents refuse to discipline their child they should send them home when they misbehave. They'd start caring more if they started having to miss work to deal with it.
I disagree. Completely ignoring the whole “had no business being there” bit, there’s also the massive generalization of school bullies you just made. Not every school bully is a delinquent who doesn’t pay attention in class. Some of them make good grades and are well respected, those are the ones that are the hardest to get punished. I had a bully like that growing up, so you could say the idea of a violence free school leaves me skeptical. Violence exists in every institution, kicking out a small handful of students won’t solve the problem. Issues like bullying are systemic, you need to find the source before you can even think about defeating it.
@kyleinthejar6829 One of my bullies punched me in the groin hard and on purpose in front of the principal. He was the principal's son. We, as a society, frequently lock our children into scenarios that we would never allow to happen to ourselves. The fact that kids can commit felonies (or, worse yet, have felonies committed against them) in school and get away without any consequence is the problem.
@kyleinthejar6829 Thank-you sincerely for sharing your perspective.
@@kyleinthejar6829 I can confirm that, while in high school I used to befriend the bullies, some of them actually valued education, it is not as if they understand it but they wanted the credentials. I am also skeptical of violence free institutions, yet we need to cut losses, education as a metric is meaningless, it only results in bullies with status and privileges perpetuating the suffering cycle.
Dealing with humans on any level has become a chore. Nursing, food service, teaching, the great thing about technology is it is opening up options not to deal with humans on a one to one level.
People hate people because humanity is so broken and so few even make an effort to be decent in any way.
Looking bad for future humans because virtual nursing homes and classrooms won’t fulfill the natural herd instinct and need for interaction we have. We need each other to fully be who we can be but getting hard to do that
Sadly, I think you are correct. I think most people are burnt out. We are just exhausted from the constant noise and stress that technology has created in our lives. There doesn't seem to be a single moment when we are not interrupted by a phone call, or text message, or social media notification. It's just too much. Humans were not designed to deal with hundreds of people constantly updating us about their lives.
@nerychristian you're right. I often feel overwhelmed even when "doing nothing"
(Which is rare)
And it's over-stimulation.
@@barbieg33 I agree. By the time we reach adulthood, the average American has spent tens of thousands of hours watching TV, listening to music on the radio, looking at porn, etc. We have seen and heard everything. Our minds and hearts have been numbed by all this information. That is why it takes more and more stimulus to get us to feel anything. Drugs, loud music, sex, extreme sports, horror movies, etc. This also makes us become cold towards people. We have seen thousands of hours of the worst of human behavior on the news. Our minds find it difficult to trust anyone
Some principals forbid teachers from calling in the police when they are physically attacked. It hurts the numbers and makes the principal and school look bad.
I would have to break school rules. My life is in danger? Oh, the police WILL be called. I don't care who gets mad.
listening to the hardships of these teachers has me disgusted
My daughter quit this last fall too and is making more than she ever could teaching. She is so much happier now.
What is she doing for work now? Just curious, trying to find a way OUT!
Omg what is she doing now?
@@tiffanyg9926Anything else, like a bartender.
In my opinion we are currently watching the collapse of public education. The system doesn't work in the absence of a civil society. I see a return to old world education where those who value education will seek it.
We pulled my kids out of public school in 2022. We learned after that my son would spend hours of the school day watching movies in class, not educational movies but Disney movies.
Couldn't agree more. Politics have ruined education as follows society. Bad behavior is written off as somehow being acceptable because of reparations or some bullshit and parents have no accountability. Being back corporal punishment and abolish unions. Dept of Ed needs to be shut down and this should never be federally funded.
not to mention it was built to create factory workers...NOT teach
Were watching collapse of society
It wasn't any better in the 90's... As a millennial when I went to school. I remember being in 12th grade regular English class. The teacher showed us the disney movie: Hercules being she was teaching the class about Greek mythology. My teacher was awesome but I was annoyed at the time & asked why are we watching this? Shouldn't we be learning actual education?! Also when I went to daycare in the 90's they showed us: Cinderella & Beauty & The Beast to the point I had both memorized after a while. When I went to school wanted an actual education not movies I could watch at home... 🤦♀️ I got so disgusted with both school & daycare. I decided as a kid from an early age to start self teaching myself because I didn't feel as though I was getting a great education when in school & was basically dismissed for having a learning disability. I still remember being in 5th grade in 1999 raising my hand in class because genuinely needed help & was told by the teacher in a very snobbish way: I can't put the whole class on hold just to help you. I have classroom of 30+ students. Literally no body bothered to raise there hand for the majority of the time & I was the quitest student in the class A+ student... After that for the rest of the year. I didn't bother to raise my hand or say another word unless literally spoken to & called on because very upset at the time... The school's have been going down hill for a while. If I ever have kids already determined probably going to home school. Between what's going on with the school system now & my own experience in the 90's. Not impressed with the school system then or now... 🤷♀️✌️
@@Sunny10tvOh I personally HATE Disney movies. They took good quality violent storybook content and put some lame ass "kid friendly" paint on it...worse is they copyrighted it so people can't remake those stories anymore the way they were actually intended. They keep "kid friendly"ing movies. Good example of good kid content is wings of fire...many many adults read/follow the series. It's a good ass book series for being a "kids book" with violence, genocide, racism, arenas...all the fun stuff kids do.
While teacher’s pay is a factor in teacher’s quitting, the escalating bad behavior and disrespect coming from students is probably the main factor. Imagine teaching ESE, ELL, and mainstream students all in one class with no extra pay
I’m a teacher, I love teaching. My administration loves the teachers. Our major problem is the PARENTS and the LAWS. The parents will excuse their children’s abhorrent behavior. I was in a meeting where a parent had the gall to blame me when their child showed me a gore video and I kicked them out of the room. The other problem is that the laws put the student OFFENDERS above the other students and the teachers. It is nearly impossible to expel violent students.
If people REALLY want to change education for the best only TWO things are needed. 1) Parents need to be held accountable for their children. That means if your kid is missing school, YOU have a punishment. If your kid is a disturbance, YOU have a punishment. If your kid is violent, YOU have a punishment. Your kid, your responsibility for their actions. 2) All Departments of Education should have EXPERIENCED classroom teachers with at least 15 years of experience running them. With teachers from EVERY content area and EVERY grade level. We have too many PhD of Education with little to no experience in the classroom or no PUBLIC school experience at all. Have REAL teachers set up the curriculums and expectations, not professors with no experience with kids.
Back when I went to school, any time a student had the balls to get physical with a teacher or staff member, it was an instant suspension for at least 2 weeks. Any tests administered or any assignments collected during that suspension period was an automatic zero, no ifs, and, or buts about it.
Anything past that was expulsion, plain and simple. In my country, once you were expelled from a public school your only option was (expensive) private school because word gets out around the public schools and none of them want a student who was expelled for terrible behavior.
My policy as a ghetto high school teacher was to inflict an actual beating on anyone who assaulted me and then if anyone in the administration said anything about it I would resign and find another job. Also if any administrator hollered at me I would simply walk out of the building never to return. And I could still find jobs in spite of this including at Job Corps and community college. Being a card carrying merchant seaman I finally just quit and shipped out after teaching for 7 years. It was impossible to take teaching seriously owing to the prevalence of socially promoted illiterates at every level of schooling. Also, most of the other teachers were asshats in my opinion nearly on a par with the sort of people you find in monasteries who have basically dropped out of society since they are allergic to paying their own rent or even feeding themselves.
Teachers here in the UK are actually some of the highest paid in Europe. Classroom supplies are provided by the school, they get maternity/paternity leave, full sick pay, etc. Their starting salary is actually a bit higher than a newly qualified doctor or nurse. Teachers here don’t typically take on second jobs. But I know so many who have been off on sick leave with stress, or who are leaving the profession entirely due to the feral behaviour of pupils (& their parents) & unrealistic targets. The kids have no respect for anybody & refuse to learn. You couldn’t pay me enough to deal with badly behaved kids!
Ok but look at what you all have e to deal with in the UK
Teacher should get free psychiatric care, they are so under appreciated.
A lot of parents here have opted for home schooling their children.
You can't stress every month about paying the bills or fearing of being abused at work, and be a top employee. You can't even train to improve regularly, and this job demands it. Education and schools are the absolute base of any country, if that base is shaken then everything risks collapsing. There are no good doctors and economists if they cannot get a proper education starting from elementary school.
It's crazy that we've gone from a teacher who can't be questioned to a teacher who can't question students. Is there really no middle ground? Can these parents really not see how their children are not developing?
@@nacho-mammyno school shootings, free healthcare, and maternity/paternity/adoption leave, up to 6 months full salary sick pay. Teachers work 195 days a year here, everyone else gets 29 guaranteed days off plus bank holidays, & (as I’m an NHS worker) a pension where my employer matches my 10% salary contribution every month. Yes, that sounds absolutely awful. 😂 Children are becoming increasingly badly behaved across the world, & I respect my teacher friends so much for the jobs they do. I also fully understand why they don’t stay in teaching. But at least here, no teachers are getting shot or live with the fear of gun violence. An American friend of mine is a teacher, & between the awful pay, kids’ behaviour, & administrators, I don’t know how she keeps at it.
I agree
I taught for 40 years, 24 in Mississippi and 16 in Alabama. If I didn’t have pensions from 2 states there is no way I would be able to pay bills.
such an important topic. thank you for speaking on it.
You are most welcome! Thank you for taking the time to watch my work! 🖤
I’m a daycare provider and yes it has gotten worse over the last few years with behavioral issues in my 4 and older kids. We decided to homeschool our daughter.
Yeah my kid doesn't like her classmates because they are very rude and loud and won't sit down and still. A girl scared her because she started yelling in her face like a wild monkey and my kid didn't know what to do.
When I was teaching 4 year olds one ripped out a literal chunk of my hair and admin and parents looked me dead in the eye and said “well what did YOU do to make them mad?”
I quit a year ago, I now make more money, I have my sanity back, and I'm back in school. This trend of educators leaving the profession is only going to get worse
Congratulations!!
None of this nonsense in Jamaica, they try, but the public disapprove of indiscipline in schools.
Not saying it is all that snazzie, but the upstanding public will not have none of this nonsense.
I changed my major from Middle Level Ed to Nursing because I suddenly realized what I was signing up for. Disrespect, disempowerment, and dirt pay in exchange for constant effort and consideration. Seemed like a horrible trade.
Nursing isn't better! Please look into it deeper.
@@happycook6737 thanks, I will
I sent my son to a public middle school about two years ago, and it was the biggest mistake of my life. He is a very well mannered, young man, and way too kind for the ruthless children that attended the school. I let him go for one year, and he was so traumatized that I vowed that I would never send him back. I’ve been homeschooling him since, which also is not easy. I have two other young children that by the time they are junior high grade level I am also going to have to homeschool them as I cannot afford a private school. Good luck to everyone out there. Lord Jesus be with you all.
My kids went to Catholic school from K-6. Sixth grade was horrible. First year of middle school. My kid was bullied daily and the principal tried to solve it by being friends with the bullies to "save" them. My kid was also traumatized from that year of school. I wish I hadn't made him finish the school year before pulling him out. It took six months for him to go back to his normal happy, jokey self. I pulled my daughter from the school as well and they are now in their second year of cyber school. Neither of them wants anything to do with in-person school. So don't feel bad about not being able to afford private school because the same stuff happens there. I hope your boy is feeling better these days.
The problem is bullying. Schools have to find a way to stop this instead of turning a blind eye to it.
In Idaho, it doesn’t matter if you have a bachelors, masters, or PhD, you start off in some districts at $41,500 for the first three years. There is no incentive for having a higher degree. This video is spot on.
In Nevada, we start at 60k in 2024. Plus, prep time, after school, etc. You easily hit 70k and summers off with pay
@@Budd631That’s nice to hear, cuz I wanna be a teacher for primary students!
Even when the kids in my school were assholes, my teachers made the school year WAY more tolerable, and I want to be able to give that to someone in the future… but at the same time I want to be paid well so I can have my parents live with me with no worries!
That's insane!
I worked as a teacher for a charter school in 2001. I had a masters degree and 15 years of experience. I was paid 21k per year. That's about $10.50 per hour. I quit at the end of the school year in 2002. I loved the children but could not afford the impoverished wages.
Thank you for your comments and references. You are spot on! I taught 23 years and took early retirement with a lesser pension because of everything you talk about in your video. I agree. We are going to have a severe shortage of good teachers within the next several years. Thank you for helping to bring awareness!
"its about to get worse"
Thats the plan
Oh my gosh, that male teacher addressing his school board in absolute anger gave me chills. His pain was palpable. What a horrible situation our teachers are in. Horrifying.
teacher here .....Teaching will become a "profession of the young " 30% of teachers leave in 5-8 years of teaching . They will hire teachers right out of college , they will work 5 years and leave
If teachers are underpaid because they are “doing it for the kids” then shouldn’t doctors be underpaid because they’re “doing it to help people”??
Like how does society not see the hypocrisy
Hmmm but teachers are the ones who have taught kids that socialism and "equal outcomes" is what we should have in this country.
That means everyone makes the same pay no matter what they do or how well educated they are.
They don't like the actual outcome of what they've indoctrinated our kids with? Release on our society?
I taught for 30 years. I retired before I intended because of health issues. Those health issues were exacerbated by the stress level we were all encountering while trying to do our jobs. It has become a no win situation. If our test scores are deemed too low then we obviously aren't working hard enough. If our test scores are really good then we must be cheating! I always had good classroom discipline and good relationships with my students, but the teachers who struggled with classroom discipline received very little support from admin. These days the disruptive students seem to have more rights than the kids who are respectful, come ready to learn, and want an education.
How much of the difficulty was because you were handcuffed by the admin and unions? Just curious to hear your experience.
In my particular state we do not have a strong union. The majority of the teachers that I taught with were never members of a union. When I started teaching (35 years ago) our admin treated us fairly and listened to our input. That doesn't happen anymore. @@Happyhippodrome
Unions support us. It is boards of education, politicians looking for votes, and parents who want to get their kids a free ride who have no respect for teachers, and many admin (not all), who hand cuff teachers. Also, the attitude toward teachers who struggle with classroom management is that they are incompetent and deserve what they get.
Every classroom in the US should have cameras with sound so when things happen parent and child should have to watch and child should be suspended.Naughty pupils sorry being hit and spit at is not naughty it's violence
if nothing is actually done about it though...the guy that thug stops a teacher over a video game might get ten years..but the girl that repeatedly pepper sprays a teacher...nothing..
There are so many parents who would sit there and watch the video and still deny the reality of it. They would find some reason to blame the teacher for their kids bad behavior or point out that the other students are acting just as bad just simply no accountability
This is insane but I don’t blame them one bit and it’s around the world. There’s a serious problem the children today and this day and age and last 10 years most definitely are just your whole Nother breed and like you said what’s the benefit of teaching anymore sure you want to do it because you enjoy it when when you’re working like a slave, you’re assaulted and you’re disrespected Day in and day out by parents and students who the heck was that you can’t bring that home every day to your family I’m never desired to teach never wanted to teach light children enough but not that much so anytime I run across a teacher I give them the highest respect in the highest regards cause I’ve met amazing teachers throughout my years in school and out of school, and when I have children one day, they are going to respect their teachers even if they don’t like them, they will respect them and they will learn as long as they are good teachers I almost feel like they need to be getting paid with college professors get held with doctors get they watch our children eight hours a day five days a week except for teacher, workday and holidays. They are our children’s second parent and you know that’s not easy job I can’t tell you how bad I feel for all teachers of all ages and I completely understand where they coming from.
@@kuroe-chan5190 for every parent that is involved with there children there are a dozen being raised feral by single mother...and right there is the core or the problems
Teacher’s unions would NEVER allow it.
As a teacher, thank you, you presented this really well. Subbed!
Thank you so much and thank you for all that you do despite all you deal with! 💕
Thank you for your video bring this important topic into the light. I am very Lucky to be a teacher in a private special education school where we are supported by administration and parents. That being said I am very concerned for my peers working in public schools. The pay for all of us is not a living wage in my opinion. I have a few side jobs to take care of my two kids and I. I love my students but due to their atypical neurology there are additional complications in teaching them. This can make for mental and physical fatigue that would be easier to rebound from if I had real down time to recover. Instead I have to go to my next job. I have a BS in psychology MS interdisciplinary studies with a focus in clinical psychology, studio Art and my ASD certification but it doesn't improve my pay. I am not trying to live like the Jones but I would like to not have to pick between paying my bills and buying groceries. The cost of living went up for us all but the pay is slow to follow. Students with behavioral issues are typical in the population I teach but there are consequences at my school for this. Teachers should not be afraid to come to work. Best wishes to all the teachers and I pray for the powers to be to tackle this issue before things get worse.
I have students who tell me what they are willing or not willing to do. They are 10. I remind them that the classroom is not a democracy and that I am paid to educate them. I've often had to remind some parents of the same thing.
Poor parenting and badly behaved students must be a talking point.
They are also people and need be talked to as such. I remember having teachers like you who wouldn't listen and admin that my autism wasn't that. Until I snapped and had breakdown in the classroom and office.
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The bottom line is that teachers need to control their classrooms for learning to take place. You also don't know me or how I've taught for 31 years, all special ed. You don't know the relationships I've formed either, so quit you're judging because you had a bad experience. If you've never taught, you have no experience in what it takes.
A woman that was in my class when I was taking cosmetology courses at a trade school, was in her 70s and a retired paraprofessional. She worked with special needs children, and was forced to retire before she was ready to (she had wanted to go till she was 75) because one of her students injured her.
The worst part, is that part of her workman’s comp stipulations was that she needed to seek out another form of work, to be able to get her compensation money. So she either had to take another job, while still healing from injury from the student who assaulted her, or she had to take up training courses to be able to receive her compensation money. 70 years old… and had to look into another profession to receive workman’s comp for an injury that happened on their property, and while she was on the clock. It’s absolute BS that anything like that could happen to someone, just for being a teacher!
That said, workman’s comp is a joke anyway. I’ve heard of many people being screwed over by workman’s comp.
She probably voted for a Democrat too.
Omg, poor lady. That makes me so sad!
The funny thing is when I grewup in school we didnt have these problems. One thing changed, children are not allowed to be disiplined by corporal punishment for many years now. Im 67, and I tell you going to public school was nothing like it is today. My dad would punish me if I got in trouble at school. He use to tell us if you get paddled at school, you will get paddled when you get home.
I’m 25 but I remember from pre-school through high school there was always students who ruined learning for everyone else due to their disrespect, disruptive behavior, and overall unhinged energy. Sadly it appears this cycle has only gotten worse with time!😮
This hit close home as my sweetheart is an Elementary teacher. She wakes up at 4:00am, at school by 5:30 and doesn’t leave until 6:00pm, sometimes as late as 8:00pm.
Disrespectful students, abusive parents, and an administration that is focused on grinding documentation and standardized testing scores have pushed her to the end.
She’s not signing another contract.
I don't blame her one bit! That teacher at the end of the video really broke my heart. To hear him articulate how the teachers are being ignored really did it for me. The lady who was attacked also got me emotional. No one deserves to be attacked on their job.
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My daughter is a special needs teacher with a one year old baby. This school year she took a job teaching online from home because her last school became too dangerous. They eliminated two of their resource officers among other things. Yesterday I came over to watch the baby during class and could hear what she had to deal with. It was a real wake up call. The outbursts from some of the students shocked me. Teachers should be paid at least twice of what they are now. Students need to face actual consequences for their actions. Teachers need to be supported.
Hey Bahamian Gyal. Great topic. I went to public high schools here in the Bahamas between the late 80s to early 90s. Generation x here.😅 We call it "government school" as you know.There were disorderly students but teachers had control of the classroom for the most part. I have heard of teachers that have gone into retirement or have passed away but never heard of a teacher quitting back then. Teachers never felt trapped but had pride in their profession even though money was small and work conditions were not always 100%. You do a great job with creating content and representing the 242. Keep up the great work.
I LOVE your podcasts. You put in the time and research to make a great presentation. You are a critical thinker. That’s rare in this day and time.
I want to sincerely thank you for saying that. It means a lot. I put a lot of effort into my videos and it really makes my day when someone shows appreciation for my work. Thank you, sir! 💓