Why are Texas teachers quitting in record numbers? This is what they said.
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2023
- We sat down with a group of teachers who recently left the profession. Here's what they told us about why teachers are leaving the classroom record numbers.
Parents need to be held accountable for their bratty kids. The amount of psycho level abuse kids put out then get a slap on the wrist for is insane.
I'ma tell you one thing: them wrists ain't seen no slap. Fr
@@Volundur9567 I agree. It's needed especially for young boys. They have to respect something.
The state needs to be held accountable for those raggedy salaries.
@@snypav MEN need to teach boys. male parents and the male administrators that soak up all the CUSHY school jobs. put the fear of god in them about s ex ua l hara ss me nt of those poor girls.
They send their kids to school for the teacher to raise them which is not the job of a teacher.
"We wouldn't have doctors and lawyers if we didn't have teachers" YES MA'AM!
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Yeah cause doctors and lawyers are the most important people right? Lol
I'm so sick of the doctor lawyer shit. There's so much more to do in the world.
@@Littlebigtime You missed the point. People respect doctors and lawyers and see them as accomplished people. But they wouldn't be there without teachers.
@@LittlebigtimeYou clearly did not understand the point.
My first job teaching was at an inner city school. Fourteen teachers quit the first two weeks. I was determined to make it work. After two years, I swore I would never teach again. A few years later, to help an orphan I met in China, I got a job there teaching English. I was the one who got an education. Respect, gifts from parents, a boss with encouraging things to say were all new to me. The problem is in our culture (or lack of it). No one in America thinks anyone else should be able to tell them what to do. We have some distorted idea of what freedom is. Every single teacher has gone into the profession with good intentions. The system wears them out.
Teaching English is my dreamed job, but I find it hard to master English. Any sugestions?
Wholeheartedly agree with you. As a matter of fact, I think our concept of "freedom" here in the USA, with its ill-defined boundaries and limits, has shown negative implications for peoples' behavior across political affiliations, generations, social classes, et al. The anonymity afforded folks by social media and the internet has definitely exacerbated this, too. I live in a very large apartment complex, and I have a neighbor, grown-ass 40-something-year-old who drives his Ford F150 down our community streets (where children are frequently seen playing) at like 30-plus miles over the speed limit. He tailgates and aggressively passes other cars driving the speed limit ON THE GROUNDS OF OUR APARTMENT COMPLEX. He's been asked by the leasing manager at our apartment complex to be more courteous of drivers who are just trying to follow the speed limits and obey the rules while on community grounds, to which he replied that he "doesn't give a shit" if his driving makes them and others anxious, because "driving isn't a right" and they should use alternative transportation if they don't like it. He can't even see the irony in the whole "not a right" thing that he says.
I feel bad for teachers. It wasn't always this way. The world has changed so much. People are so rude, entitled, cheap and don't have any class or decorum. What happened America?
You have my condolences, even though I was at the start where kids were starting to act up, I was abide an listened to the teachers (minus 3 bad ones who got their just desserts with evidence)- they were instructing and teaching their wisdom so I wanted to be polite and learn. My Ex mom dictated- long story severed ties and with lil bro is safe too. Plus now I teach kids culinary an home ec
Vote 💙 for fair pay, freedom and democracy 👊
Remember wannabe dictators are bad for everyones health.
I am a retired engineer, before I was an engineer I enjoyed teaching math for 10 years. Now that I am retired I decided to substitute teach. It was terrible. When I follow school policy and make students put their phones away ,students would be very rude to me. Some students would tell the principal that they did not like the way I looked at them. I then would not be allowed to substitute teach. I was also attacked by a student because I picked up the students phone and nothing was done. Since I was an engineer, I have a good retirement, so not teaching does not hurt me. It is hard for regular teachers to quit. So they have to put up with the abuse and it hurts them emotionally. I was insulted by the students every time I made them follow the rules. Having no support from Principals a person is in a trap, they cannot get out of. So they get physically sick. Until school boards support the principals, principals will not support teachers. So the students rule the schools.
So sorry to hear about your experience. Mine too. I'm quitting.
Sorry, but your conclusion that students rule schools is inaccurate. Everyone involved in schools has some input in varying ways, and the best word to describe how schools work is "balance."
Teachers shouldn't be physically taking phones from students- it's essentially asking for trouble.
Students are more "in a trap" than anyone else at school because they're more or less forced to attend schools and follow the rules, which are not made by them; are hard to define, enforce, and enforce fairly; and vary significantly because different staff members have differing behavior management styles.
A lot of working with kids in schools (and people anywhere and everywhere) is often about *the approach*. I work as a substitute teacher. I wouldn't want to be a teacher. I haven't had students insult me.
There's a very interesting old short film about teaching that I've seen in a couple of David Hoffman's videos. I'll reply with information.
The old short film is in the "David Hoffman" channel in a video titled "Did 1950s Dress Codes Work To Discipline Students?" The film is split up into two pieces. I also saw it in a video of his from a year or more ago where it was the only topic and I think it was in one piece.
It’s the troublemaking students that “rule the schools” because the craven politicians keep screaming about “parents’ rights.” School administrators live in fear of being accused of crimes or sued for simply telling students to sit down and stop disrupting. A student falsely accused my wife of assaulting her; after Child Protective Services investigated, she was immediately cleared. We still were out $1500 for a lawyer. To say or imply that there is not a discipline problem in many schools is naive or misinformed. And to say students are “forced “ to attend schools makes a mockery of U.S. education.
@@synupps877 As a substitute teacher, it is true that if you do not require students to follow rules you will have no problem with the students, but if you wish to teach a lesson you may not be successful. The student who attacked me was running around the classroom acting crazy. I knew if I took the phone out of the classroom she would follow me out of the classroom and the other students would be safe.
While all of the things they have cited are indeed major problems, it seems to me that children and parents are held to the absolute lowest standards of behavior now. I know several teachers that have quit because students throw stuff at them, curse constantly, and behave like animals while they’re at school. If you tell a parent, the parent gets mad at the school. Fix children and parent behavior and it won’t be a matter of “recruitment” anymore. Teachers that are passionate about what they do are passionate about educating, not baby sitting students that know better. Get better discipline in schools and hold students accountable when they do wrong THEN raise teacher pay (believe me, these teachers deserve that and much more). Teachers deserve respect, huge pay, and good working conditions. But to make that happen, you have to start with fixing parental entitlement. Everyone wants to dance around the uncomfortable topics instead of addressing them. 😑
I used to teach in this country, then I went to teach abroad, then I came back and substitute taught. Teaching abroad was mostly so much better than teaching here. Parents seemed to like the way I taught their kids. A majority of my students (certainly not all!) were attentive and smart and funny and participated and got their home work done and scored well on their tests, etc.
I remember one of the first subbing jobs I had upon my return. It was only a half day gig and I was able to talk to the teacher before she left. She had a list of about 10 (out of maybe 22) that were "problem" kids and what to watch out for. As she was leaving, the kids were saying good-bye and she didn't respond at all, simply . . . . left. I get it. I've had rough days before, too. But I didn't know her story. Thankfully, it was a pretty easy afternoon.
Cameras in the classroom now! And parents can log in and watch what is going on.
Absolutely right. The behaviors starts at home. What a parent requires the children to be in and outside the home. I grew up with standards and if you got in trouble at school, there were consequences. Now a days you can curse the teacher out and your parents too. My mom was in education and she dealt with difficult students no one wanted. She's been out over 15 years now. She saw the issues starting then. Kids go to the bathroom and call there parents because they made at the teacher. The parent come to the school and curse everyone out in the office. They have no clue what you are talking about. Also she worked as a teacher in the classrooms. Kids that came back from suspension had new clothes, shoes, etc. It was a vacation for them. One student called the suspension from school their vacation and they knew that there were no consequences. It didn't have any meaning to the parent nor the child. So kids like this never had to change their behavior. Teachers aren't babysitters. They literally mold the children's minds along with the parents. So change starts from the top.
@@yaimavolyou sound like one of the parents who believe in banning books.
Except that's literally NOT what they said!
They all specifically said that they didn't want to leave their students, but the reason they felt the couldn't continue teaching is because of the poor pay that isn't enough to live on, the poor working conditions that require them to use their own money for supplies and work overtime without being paid for it, and the disrespect that comes with politicians accusing teachers of grooming and indoctrinating students in order to gain votes by stoking the culture war!
I think maybe you should ask yourself why you, even when you have teachers on camera saying it, refuse to hear their words and instead desperately want it to just be something we can blame on "kids today are bad and their parents suck!"
No, no, no! Do NOT become a teacher in the US. It is the most stressful, unappreciated, even dangerous profession. If you were born to be a teacher, go teach elsewhere. Other countries value the teaching profession a TON more than the U. S.
That's right. It's really a horrible system. I feel for the children whose parents can't afford to stay home with them
Yup. Conservatives hate government workers which includes teachers, police and firefightgers.
@@janelliot5643believe me, stay at home parents aren't always the answer, lol.
Same as Victoria!!
My mother is a now retired librarian/teacher. She retired about 4 years ago. For the last ten years of her employment she was actively discouraging people from entering the profession (unless like you say they were seeking overseas employment).
I cried everyday on the way to or from school. I had to get a restraining order against a violent parent. It's just not worth doing when it hurts your physical and mental health.
What!????? Im so sorry !! I bet that student was horrible too. Parent here------ but i totally agree with you! I made my child apologize to a couple of her teachers. I think yall should be making near as much as Drs cause yall are teaching!!!!!! Its insane. I finally had to homeschool my 16 yrold. Between the horrible teachers and the bullies , i was scared for my daughter,for her mental health. The ones that needed help didn't get it, like her. Falling through the cracks ! Its insanity ,the entitlement of children now!!!!
My daughter has 7 disabled children in her 4th grade classroom. Screaming on the floor, running around the room disrupting the learning are just a few of the problems she deals with and has No Support! One boy tripped her and laughed, luckily she wasn’t hurt. Parents need to know!! She quit today.
I am seeing things like this everyday day where I am an educational assistant.
We have forced teachers to “make bricks without straw” for several years now. Children come to school unprepared to learn, with complete and total disrespect and contempt for teachers. Not to mention children with parents more petulant than their demonic children. Our teachers deserve better.
Preach!🎯💯
Well its all thyese PARENTS RIGHTS shit. Teach your kids some mannewrs and quit being Karens
They're part of the problem that crested it
DON’T THINK LIKE THE ORANGE JESUS! IT NEVER, NEVER MAKES IT BETTER!
@@truthhurts5158 That's why all these public school teachers cut off their nose to spite their face, because they would be SO BLESSED if we moved to a private voucher system because then private schools could REJECT unruly students and teachers wouldn't have to deal with those horrible students (whatever remains of the public school system would basically just be for those who refuse to be good students, should just be a trade school to teach them trades). I think they are just afraid of the competition. The reality is if private schools were booming there would be a massive competition for GOOD teachers, but yes bad teachers would get fired, but they SHOULD be. The good teachers like the ones in this video would be raised UP in a private school system, promoted, and have obedient students.
When you get something for free, you don't cherish it or respect it. When students get to CHOOSE their school, CHOOSE their study topics, they have been proven in studies to do far better. Because they have a stake in their education. And while schools have started offering electives to high schoolers and middle schoolers, the students still don't get to choose their school which means they get stuck in failing schools and thus feel hopeless and lash out and then it just gets worse.
Public schools reward bad teachers and bad students. They are handtied they can't even do anything to stop the disrespect they are talking about. If it was a private school they would threaten expulsion and bring that students' parents in to the school and quickly deal with it. Public schools don't because they get paid per student's daily attendance so they basically turn it into a glorified daycare, fearful that if they crack down on students those students won't show up to school.
I have a niece that wanted to be a teacher for her whole life. She worked hard and went into debt to become a teacher. After 5 Years, she quit, she couldn't believe the behavior of 3rd graders, lack of discipline, lack of attention, and even worse the crazy parents, regardless what the kid it was her fault. She was threatened over failing grades, called a racist, etc etc.
was it a public school or private school?
@@savannahsmiles1797sounds like public. Private tend to have discipline and higher expectations for manners but?..
Can already tell what race the students were.
Public. The private schools didn't pay enough, she had student loans...@@savannahsmiles1797
@savannahsmiles1797 public. Private school kids would be kicked out if they acted like that immediately. People are paying money for their kids to attend school and so the administration won't allow bad behavior to destroy other kids private education. Plus parents would raise hell if bad behavior was allowed in private school.
Now public school is different. Millennial and genx parents are awful. They let their kids disrespect adults and authority and wonder why their kids will end up in prison or dead as adults.
The school administrators at public schools are scared to act because they are worried about parents trying to sue or kids acting violently at school. Personally think they need to put those kids in prison along with the parents.
It‘s not just in Texas, or the US, but everywhere. Even in Switzerland, where high school teachers earn $140.000,- per annum. People are simply fed up. Fed up with a nonsensical curriculum, fed up with vulgar students, fed up with aggressive parents and fed up with other people’s unrealistic expectations. Why should someone waste four decades on a low paid, dead end job in a toxic work environment, when they can achieve much more in their life?
I quit after just two years (after I received a threat e-mail from a parent, over a „C“ their golden angel deservedly earned). When someone writes „We know where you live“, it’s time to pack your bags and leave. I studied on. Five universities in four countries. I earned two more M.A./M.S. and a Ph.D. And with seven languages under my belt and all my work experience I made in seven countries, I‘d never go back to the ninth circle of hell that is a (private) high school. Besides, most of high schoolers today want to either be an athlete, an online influencer or an OnlyFans content creator. They don’t need teachers. They need a good camera and some plastic toys.
Thanks for the international perspective. OnlyFans content creator . . haha.
I watch videos like this and I wonder if it's only in the USA or in other countries as well? Thank you for your comment. Very sad to hear
Amen! Well stated!
in middle school, i remember my music teacher looked like she was about to explode everyday from the abysmal behavior that my classmates were constantly engaging in. she would break down constantly and scream at us exasperatedly. one day in college i recognized her in the copy room. i never seen her more alive and happy. she didnt recognize me at all though so i pretended like i didnt know her and we just briefly had a short exchange before she went back to her desk. i was shocked. she looked like a different person. once i quit being a teacher myself, i thought back at that exchange and it never dawned on me deeper than in that moment that i finally understood just how bad it is. its probably good that she didn't recognize me because it mightve retraumatized her to remember those days.
She probably recognized you
It must have been pleasant for her to see you. As due to your understanding of her back then you were an exception.
@@wafflekiller1727Nah she probably didn't. Ever heard of puberty? I look completely different in highschool than I did in middle and elementary. I don't think anyone looks the same they did as a kid.
My father is a retired teacher. He committed himself 100% to be the best that he could be. I remember him falling asleep at the kitchen table while grading homework and creating teaching plans after dinner. And up at 5 a.m. to prepare for the day and a long commute to work. He did a summer Master's Degree course to improve his skills and better support our family. God bless all of you teachers who are struggling with all of our current problems in society and education.
He’s exactly who should be teaching kids , no complaining , no bitching , just dedication to his craft .
@@liberalismisaids9564it’s not about complaining, unless you’ve been a teacher you have no idea the stress and challenges that go along with it. So don’t mouth off if you’ve never done it.
@liberalismisaids9564 you must not have children, never had to teach, or never had to deal with constant disrespect at your workplace.
@@liberalismisaids9564haha so you have no idea what is happening😂
They now have their plans done for them
I lasted 1 year as a high school teacher. A lot of the sudents were obnoxious, lazy and lacked any aspiration. I had 25 students in 3 different classes, and 7 of them failed all claases. When you asked them what they planned to do after high school about 30-40% said Twitch streamer or something related to gaming... I mean.... I just dont know what to say anymore.
Please... where did you go after? Might be on a similar track. It's my first year teaching high school
@@katherineosere6597 Apply at a private school and join groups to pressure your state legislators to pass vouchers. It's the only hope for a future where you have respectful students to teach. Unless the governor declares martial law and sends soldiers into the classrooms to discipline students, it's so terrible there's zero hope at most public schools now. We had to withdraw our children it's gotten so bad and we were in one of the "better" school districts but it's just gotten terrible beyond saving. Several of our teachers refused to discipline children or intervene during bullying out of fear of losing their jobs. One of the teachers stopped a student that was murdering another student (literally saved that kid's life) and the school district actually suspended the teacher with an investigation and were looking to fire him (a white male who dared stop a black student who was assaulting another student), but when all the students spoke up that he did the right thing they had to drop their investigation. He immediately quit after that and went to work for a private school that is paying him better, and all the students are way more respectful and he also withdrew his kids to put them in that private school (even though they still make him pay half the tuition).
Seriously, using my friend who was a public teacher-turned-private teacher as an example, he had a similar story to these people and his problems were ALL solved by becoming a private school teacher. They should all do the same and demand the Texas legislature pass school choice NOW. No amount of money will solve the lack of discipline in public schools, NONE. You can't pay students to be respectful, there actually was a school district that tried this (can't remember if it was Chicago or DC) but it didn't really work. Paying them to get higher grades had some mild success for the already model students, but problem students remained problem students regardless even trying to bribe them to be obedient didn't work.
Point is, the only solution is to go private, give people school choice, and just let the public schools be the bottom feeding schools that deal with problem students, maybe turn them all into military academies (we got crap recruitment numbers anyways). Problem solved.
@@foto21 Aspiration as in 'aspire to be something'...
30 years ago all the kids in my son's class wanted to be football stars. They were more likely to end up in Attica, their parents were MIA.
@@foto21Yes, actually. That’s how you use that word….
I can’t imagine putting hands on a teacher. Unimaginable.
Have you watched the news in the last 7-8 years? Society has taught children that you only get what you want through violence.
You can thank parents refusing to step up and discipline their kids for this along with administration refusing to make parents do so for this mess.
Expulsions don't exist anymore. Even suspensions got downgraded to "in school" so that the parents don't have to deal with it. The educators get to deal with a the angry, lonely, self conscious, attention seeking teen instead of educating.(You can't blame the kids, kids generally don't raise themselves, it's not their fault they spawned there)
That’s why again, parents and administrators are the ones who are driving the good teachers out
Govt: makes problems for teachers
Teachers: we quit
Govt: why are teachers quitting?!?!
Well put!
By design. The uneducated are much easier to manipulate and control.
Govt want schoolscto continue to fail. Admin bloat, control of curriculum based on culture issues. Kids can't read but they sure see how different their classmates might look and they aren't being taught to value themselves as well as others differences. School has been dumbed down. Govt needs to be relatively removed from school (despite public schools being govt entities).
Govt. let’s appoint a task force to determine why teachers are quitting. There will be very few teachers on this task force
Teachers: there’s a task force? No one asked me any questions.
Govt : the task force results are in: teachers want specialty license plates! No actions needed on our part! Go vouchers!
Teachers: we quit
Schools are under the states' jurisdiction.
An American I knew years ago worked as teacher in Japan, and said the difference was night and day. She said the Respect from the students was 100% as a cultural norm. And so teaching was easy. But if a society breeds entitlement, aggrandizement, contempt for others and hatred as a cultural norm, this is the unfortunate result. It’s deeper and starts within each individual, there’s already a war within that person and they only look to project that onto others. Deep Peace, and deep respect for self and others needs to be fostered.
Could not agree more!
I think a lot of it comes from our society. I’ve heard in my life over and over again, how teaching isn’t a real profession.... rhetoric like that is heard by the children, and then they end up treating their teachers like complete crap. It’s just insane that they’re not paying them correctly. But what are you expect from a red state? They like to say they care about children and teachers, but the way they vote says otherwise.It’s just horrifying because my mom is a teacher, and we live in a blue state and even she is struggling. I cannot fathom how it is in a place with lower support.
It is not just Texas sadly.
In my state the governor hired former retired business people. Some are successful but didn't go to school for 4 years.....
YEs. You are correct. I have a BS in Business and am learning Japanese so that I may apply for a teaching visa in Okinawa where honor and respect is a way of life.
I respect teachers, and I don't blame them for quitting. No one wants to teach your horribly-behaved kids.
I couldn’t finish watching this because it hits home. Too much anxiety.
I’m sorry you had to go through this. My mom had to go through this and retired when the district was worried more about kids feelings and social space vs education and learning.
I love how Gov Abbot created a bureaucratic task force to find out why teachers are leaving, and then promptly did nothing with it.
He literally could’ve just googled “Why are teachers leaving the classroom.” And that would’ve given him everything he needed to know.
I don't think that Abbott cares at all, like not in the least. Maybe he is going to implement Prager U or something, but there's no way in hell that Abbott is going to fix anything with the school system in the state of Texas.
The Gov can’t help with the disrespect 🙄🙄🙄
In Texas and Florida (for just 2 states...), the governors Absolutely Refuse to respect the teachers and many, many, many others. Not "can't"...won't.@@cacao123451
He didn’t just do nothing about it, he is actively trying to make it worse. He’s trying to copy the private school voucher garbage that Arizona started that actively hurt their public school teachers. Abbot hates public education because of general right wing derangement towards anything they deem “woke”. He is an evil man
@@cacao123451he can absolutely help with increasing their pay, increasing their pensions, reducing work hours, increasing staff to provide support to teachers, increase staff to provide more direct guidance to students, increase resources at the school, etc, etc.
Honestly, what's wrong with you? You make it sound like he's powerless when he was elected to be the person with the power to change things.
Another thing people can do to support teachers: stop treating them like crap and stop hiring administrators who are batsh*t crazy and treat them like crap, too. This insanity needs to stop or we’re going to be one giant dystopia in the very near future.
Too late for that
The rich will always get their education and the rest of us will suffer. Allowing far right idiots to have a say and be on boards, will continue and that’ll be the end of public education as we know it.
Most administrators got there because they could not hack it in the classroom. They got their advanced degrees, not to better serve the students, but to get the heck out.
Amen
I taught at CCSD the building administrators were fast tracked and just as stressed as the teachers. Their admins would tell them that had to do as told and reminded them how unqualified they were. I laughed when recommended for admin training. No thank you
My kid is in Special Education. He has autism, ADHD, and Cerebral Palsy. He has a hard time regulating himself at home as well as school. I wouldnt blame his teacher if she quit. I want to quit. We are working hard to make him behave. We had to take him to a psychiatrist for help and now he is on medicated and he is able to be calmed down better, but he still has ocassional out bursts. Teacher deserves more help and more respect than what they get. I do my best to make sure my child acts correctly at school.
Before your child is 17 sign him over to the state. Otherwise you will end up elderly and frail dealing with him! The state will then put him in a group home with 24 hour supervision, planned activities, life skills training, etc. That is much better than you trying to keep him in your home. As he sexually matures and becomes taller and heavier, he will become much more difficult and require a care team which you don't have at home. Prepare yourself now by not managing him by physical methods. It is a harsh reality that no one discusses with parents. A tantrum from a 6 year old is very different from an 18 year old, 6 foot, 200 pound man child's tantrum. Also once your kid ages out of school he will be home 24/7. You deserve to have a quality of life too! PS We went through this with my brother, it is heartbreaking but once he adjusted he was much happier in the group home.
Yes, I grew up at a time when my mother made it clear that we were to be on our best behavior in any public spaces because it was a reflection on the family, and especially on her. We were raised to care about how our behavior affected the people around us. That isnt entirely absent, these days, but it is not encouraged for sure.
Eat carnivore, get more animal fat and protein in you and your child. Quality matters.
You are not the problem teachers love you, the fact that you spent time to watch this video puts you above most parents. I've known many students who had the ability but didn't have any reason to care, can you blame a kid with no role modals, aspirations or parental figures for not caring about life?
I pity you.
I am a retired Texas teacher with 30 years of experience. I am so sorry qualified and caring teachers like yourselves felt forced to quit. Our students need teachers like you to care and educate them.
It breaks my heart to hear these stories. I am also sorry you feel degraded by parents, the school districts, and politicians. They forget you are the back bone of their profession.
I am worried about the future of education in our nation.
🎯 people need to be careful about the focus on $. My wife works in an area where a teacher with over 10 years experience makes a hundred grand a year. It hasn’t stopped teachers quitting after a few years. Student behavior without consequence, disrespect from parents and students, increasing comp,ex classrooms with multiple needs where teachers are expected to plan for each need each lesson, etc. etc. the simple reality is that there’s easier and less stressful ways of making a living.
My son was assaulted by a kid in his second year of teaching. It happened in front of the entire class. He sent the kid to the office, where she accused him of "grabbing" her hand (as she was swinging it at him). He didn't. He stepped out of the way. He was totally shocked.
She was back in class the next day. He was up for a disciplinary investigation.
Teachers desperately need the support of government, employers and parents.
It, also, wouldn't hurt for parents to spend some time teaching their kids respect.
Being a male teacher is almost impossible. I work in Asia and I've had friends blackmailed by schools for helping kids in the bathroom because the school forced them to. They pointed out how their contract stated they're not supposed to wake the kids up from nap time, change clothes, or help in the bathroom and the schools told them to do it in front of a camera or they'd be fired.
I quit the second a school tries to make me help with any of those.
My teacher colleague was struck by a 5th grade student so hard she was on leave for 6 weeks. Nothing happened to the student, they just moved him to a different class. There is no accountability whatsoever.
Honestly, changing demographics are just going to make it worse.
Doubt it, I bet something more went on
@@Tico513 Since it was in front of the entire class, and since my son was substituting, it is highly unlikely.
We lost our schools when the responsibility for learning was lifted from the students.
We lost our schools when we let parents start dictating the curriculum (Parents Rights). When we started entertaining old people blathering in meetings and demanding "THE LORD" back into schools. Older people who think "in 1950 I was not allowed to wear PANTS to school as a girl" means jack shit in the modern world when it comes to some of the ridiculous dress code rules. Note I support realistic rules, as a former teenage boy though? BRA STRAPS didnt distract me. Shorts above the knee did not distract me. Tank Tops did not distract me.
Know why most Asian nations are eclipsing us in education. They are not 9-3, just in case older students "want to get a JOB after school too!". They dont have a week off to visit family for Christmas and Easter. Long summer breaks to "Get a job" or "enjoy the nice weather and play sports outside". The US does all of that.
@@Iansco1 An F is an F is an F.
No diploma, no job.
We lost our schools (and, eventually, our society) because of the lower-class families that are barely making it and have to steal to eat. They instill that into their Blax children.
@@johnatkins3017 yup, and what do people do when they have no job? They commit crimes. Failing everyone is not a solution at all.
@@keepingitkianatural When USA schools functioned, the certainty of failure as a result of not learning caused learning, not crime.
Now, we can dump math, discuss DEI instead, and enjoy massive increases in crime.
The biggest issues I faced in my decades as a teacher were:
1. The state constantly churning the curriculum so I had to completely scrap my tried-and-true lesson plans and develop new ones. By the time the new ones were honed and perfected, they'd churn the curriculum again and we were back to square one.
2. The state mandating various initiatives but not funding them.
3. Even when the state was only mulling over some new initiative, the idiot superintendents of my district would volunteer for pilot programs which made us retool the curriculum. On one occasion the state didn't adopt the initiative and made us scrap it and all the texts and materials we had bought.
4. New principals on a mission to change the "climate" of the school, especially when that climate was just fine before they came and their meddling made it worse.
5. Wokeness, political correctness, or whatever you want to call it. Our district paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for "consultants" to come in and run seminars which only served to divide and alienate the staff.
For me it wasn't the kids. It wasn't even their parents, though we had some doozies. It wasn't even really the pay, though my state was 41st in pay the last time I looked. It was the BS from those who were the farthest from the classroom: lawmakers, the state department of education, the district administration, and clueless principals. I'm happily retired now, but if I had to do it all over again I wouldn't.
Thank you. I wish people would be honest and say this because that's been the biggest issue over the last 40 years. The kids, parents, and even teachers can be a pain, but the truth is they are trying to navigate the same bs on a different end, and instead of working together, the administrators have us fighting.
My oldest is 15. We've seen and been forced to learn math (something I learned perfectly well over 20 years ago...) change three times. Every new method has been worse than the last. At least y'all got training. Parents are working 60+ hours at an entirely different job and have no idea wtf is going on or how to help or what to do. The burnout is real on both ends. We're all too tired to do a good job, much less enjoy it.
There's also WAY too many children to a classroom. We NEED federally mandated teacher's aides. One teacher and aide for every 10 students would solve sooooo many issues. And cameras with sound for Christ's sakes need to be a bare minimum standard.
If women and teachers ruled the world, we'd be in a better place 🤦🏽♀️
Teachers who say shit like "wokeness" are the worst teachers. You have a problem with respecting and accepting the different ideologies, cultures, religions, and identities of people, but call yourself a "teacher". The world was better off when you left education.
@@singhmastr Some "ideologies, cultures, religions, and identities" are indefensible. Only a moral relativist thinks they have equal merit. The truth is that some of them have no merit whatsoever and are a detriment to human life.
@@bigredracingdog466 and how many of the indefensible ones do you think a teacher in America is going to meet? None!! A teacher in America is going to deal with (in regards to "wokeness") minority students, LGBT students, students with disabilities, etc.
Great job taking the convo into a ridiculous direction. Maybe spend time trying to understand the context of the convo first.
@@singhmastr I ran into a number of indefensible ones:
1) Religious zealots of various stripes who want to control what is and is not taught in class.
2) Race grifters who want to blame their failure on "institutional racism," never mind that my school was overrepresented with minority teachers compared to the student population. They must have been racist too.
3) More religious zealots who treat women as second-class citizens and their apologists who don't condemn it.
4) Cultures that think physical violence in school is acceptable and school boards who think it's acceptable to return violent students to the classroom.
I could go on, but if you haven't taught you wouldn't know.
The first five years are extremely important that once a child enters kindergarten, her/his success in school is already determined by the first five years of his life. Parents who are active in their child’s education are more likely to have successful children. Very rarely do you get a successful child out of a home that lacks the ability to be active in the child’s life. Children are born wanting to learn, look up to their parents for guidance, they’re perfect blank canvas just waiting for a beautiful painting to come out but unfortunately, it’s the adults that ruin their children before they even had a chance and blame everyone else for their failures.
My husband retired from being a registered pharmacist and decided to take a teaching job for 9th grade. The pay is low but the worse thing is the disrespect from the students and their parents! 😮😢. Parents need to teach their children to have manners and respect!
Why
Isnt better to be a registered pharmacist? is the pay lower?
They can’t teach manners and respect if they don’t have it themselves.
What do you think about this solution, If a child shows they are unruly and won’t change they should be kicked out of school, regardless of the parents situation, forcing the parents to choose between disciplining their child or go without free day care. What do you or your teacher husband think of that? It sounds to harsh but what’s happening is worse.
@@1984isnotamanual Right free to education trumps them "Talking back to you".
Respect is earned not given. Your husband should seek out a more dignified job rather than babysitting.
I am a certified elementary teacher who is also a black male. I left America about 30 years ago and have been teaching in the Far East all that time. I encourage other teachers to follow my footsteps because teaching overseas is a totally different and rewarding experience. While teaching in Taiwan I had 3 apartments. One apartment in the main city and two apartments were GIVEN to me (rent free) by the public schools I worked for. Fully furnished, two bedrooms. The school also sent to my house a personal driver to take me to the school and bring me home. While working in Mongolia the school paid my air fare to get to Mongolia. Upon arrival they slap into the new teachers' hands $700 of cold cash to get settled in the country. They also gave us free housing. In Japan the schools had an annual staff field trip. Some schools flew their teachers to Hawaii (fully paid by the schools) to stay for a few weeks. It was a great life. Consider teaching in another country. New addition: This is how I ended up in Taiwan in the first place. The Japanese school I worked for took a staff field trip to Taiwan and I loved it. I loved it so much that I decided to teach in Taiwan. Oh, and lets address the elephant in the room, that party you guys have in America called gun violence in the schools, they don't have that tradition in the Far East. Civilians are not allowed to purchase firearms. (P.S. - Concerning students' behavior, that is an emotional topic for me because I bonded with my students. They gave me many warm memories which were very close to the heart and soul.)
Where would we be if George Washington and other early patriots had fled to a foreign country?
@@jameshepburn4631 Better off.
@@lagringa7518 There’s buses leaving every day, be under one. The natives of the Western Hemisphere were Stone Age people, 4,000 years behind the “old world”, when Columbus permanently connected them to such advances in civilization such as written language, the wheel, and metallurgy. Those currently coming to the U.S. from the recently Stone Age gene pool who are so deficient in the STEM fields that greatly drive modern living, are greatly dependent on our citizens’ tax dollars and resources. If their inability to learn to speak English is typical, these apparently low capability recent Stone Agers will be a drag on progress for centuries to come. Their return to where they would be culturally, intellectually, and linguistically compatible would be good for everyone. They can even get to work trying to produce someone who can serve their native areas even remotely like George Washington served us. They haven’t yet and it’s likely not in their genetic capability.
Agree, and these teachers would walk into any international school in Asia. The disrespect is sad
@@lagringa7518are you saying teachers are patriots? If so, treat them as so with respect. If you are comparing them to George Washington as a fighter, then give them the tools to win the fight/ battle.
We need more interviews like this. This was awesome.
I know a middle school art teacher who was punched in the face by a student and missed a couple months with trauma and headaches. A middle schooler punching an art teacher square in the face.
My daughter is a first year teacher in Houston, she went in optimistic, determined to make a change in these kids’ lives: instead she spends most of her time with discipline, as teachers are required to deal with unruly, disrespectful students. She graduated from Texas Tech with a degree in Agriculture Business and Science, she is considering going back into that field. Parents need to help raise their kids and teach them respect.
It's a losing battle with the public schools. She could start her own student pod where parents hire her to teach. She could go to a Christian, Catholic, Montessori, charter, or Waldorf School. Public schools are not worth her sanity, health and finances.
We live in a corrupt and dishonest world and those who do their job to the best of their ability suffer. I am an electrician and I lived in socialism (communism) and now a democratic system. Everything is corrupt today and I don't see anything positive when some nonsense is being forced instead of normal basic human values. If it is not in the interest to have a healthy and normal society, then it is better to fail because this does not make sense. Teachers have always been respected and the question arises as to who is the main culprit for this mess. Western democracy is a fraud and never existed. I have always followed the rules no matter what they are and I have no difficulty in behaving civilly in any situation.
I happened to be several times in 82 and 83 in Galveston and Houston. According to me, Texas is the best state in America with an interesting culture based on my modest knowledge of America.
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@@Veracityseeker7have you seen what Montessori teachers are paid. 😢 It might as well be called volunteering.
@@psychedforlife7176 No,😐 That's 😢 sad. Thank you for clarifying.
I did my student teaching and realized I wasn't cut out for it. There were discipline problems over 40 yrs ago. Can't imagine now
I quit after my first year. Came back after a year and worked 2 years at a phenomenal prep school here in North Texas. Quit after 2 years, heath insurance was horrible and I couldn’t sustain my family financially. Went back into banking and I make more than a teacher that’s been teaching over 20 years. Now I’m learning IT! I was a North Texas teacher like these teachers!
My daughter in law left after two years. She works at a gas station and makes more as an assistant manager. I stay because 90% of my students make it worth it, because I need a decent health insurance for my own illnesses and now PTSD after a student messed up my nervous system after an incident. It saddens me to see how society and bad politicians, parents and followers are messing things up.
I'm in teaching now. Do I just apply at my local bank? The teller ladies always look so happy and have time to do their makeup and hair every morning. I miss that
Teacher salary was never meant to support a family by itself.
Happy you got out and are going better for yourself 👍. The more teachers that quit, the sooner the real problem will be looked at: student misbehavior.
@thearmy88ify That's why a lot of males aren't in teaching, or both spouses work. I see you're military. USAF Brat, and I know the pay is low also especially for NCO's. Same with many firefighters and police departments.
I'm no longer a teacher, and this video hit home. I don't even live in Texas.
When I was in school I was a mild and quiet kid, but I had friends who acted like terrors sometimes. I knew them, knew what their home lives were like, and as an adult I see now that some of them were taking out their anger over their situations at home. The teachers aren’t equipped to handle all of these emotional issues.
Kids are scared because of the violence, their structure is crumbling due to a failing education system, they’re bombarded by terrible influences online, and when you add turbulent home lives or neglectful parents to the mix it’s a recipe for disaster.
Children need a lot of love, discipline, and guidance. They cry out for it when they act out. Taking away an educator’s ability to discipline their students within reason is not only a disservice to them, but to the students as well.
I work in education, and yes, the disrespect from students is ridiculous. I may not have liked all my teachers when I was in school, but I respected them. Bless all of you wonderful parents and educators in this country and world.
I hated school and even dropped out but I have never disrespected a teacher the way I've seen students today do. It makes me sad because one day they'll look back and see how important education is.
The middle class is being destroyed by the Capitalist, managerial class.
Charter schools are stealing money from the public system.
Middle Class wages are stagnant & many are living at the poverty line.
What I just pointed out are the specific sociological reasons why there is no student respect for teachers. Demoralized humans often act out in ways that are not respectful.
Respect is a two way street, Teachers represent state authority.
How has the state shown respect to the citizen when they constantly write laws to subjugate citizen. Ps. Trump is still a free man, and no one meaningful went to jail after the 2008 financial crash. The pandemic created a wealth transfer to the 1% but u can't understand why the middle classes are crumbling and not being respectful?
This. Plus they learn it from social media. Plus a lot of the parents find it acceptable to “stand up to authority “.
From my experience, as a student and as a starting teacher, students who disrespect usually come from parents who disrespect.
You forgot to mention one factor: the demonization of teachers by conservatives and far-right Christian nationalists who have been inculcated to believe that teachers are indoctrinating their children is also contributing to teacher disillusionment.
To hear politicians demean the profession to “babysitters” is the most ironic thing I’ve ever heard.
💯💯💯💯💯💯
The terribly ironic part is that if they WERE babysitters they would be paid more. LOTS more.
Ironic because this country is being run by a bunch of fucking babies.
Losers who think taking care of their own kids is babysitting
Just because it's ironic doesn't mean it's not true :3
Similar to the Dunning-Kruger effect, those that are useless (and have useless jobs), are not only blissfully unaware of how useless they are, but they actually think so highly of themselves.
In Alief ISD of tx, my son entered K reading at 1st grade level, being ambidextrous and eager to learn, within TEN days he was being punished for not using solely right hand, was told if he couldn't read the word "experience" he couldn't read, complained she didn't get paid enough so took money from 5 yo, had been put on the bus and deposited at apartment complex he didn't live at on first day of school and diagnosed with clinical depression and anxiety. In first grade of Pasadena ISD the teacher gave all the directions for the whole day in the first few min of school , made kids repeat the same worksheet over and over without saying what was wrong, decided the library and recess were privileges to be earned of first graders, calling them stupid. I sat for 25 hrs observing and documenting every word she said, went to principal and got her under supervision and my son out of there. 15 of those 18 kids had to repeat first grade. My son got put in special ed because he asked the SRO to kill him so he wouldn't have to come to that school anymore. Sadly, he was educationally neglected while in school but was reading Little House series, doing compass work, memorizing multiplication tables, etc at home. I decided he was too precious to be wasted in PISD so homeschooled him where he hit purple belt in Karate, learned to read and speak Mandarin, built computers and learned C++ programming, cooking , algebra, geometry, HAM radio, goat husbandry and was writing dialogue in his novel.
I contend there are many more kids like mine who have been disrespected, abused but not all parents can dog the bad teachers and reframe their jobs so they can home educate esp if they are bad mouthed by teachers.
Back in the day in Cambodia (around the 1970s-1980s) teachers in Cambodia would hit students if they wrote Left-Handed.
@@shaft5 truly,tx is carbon copy of Khmer Rouge
Yup, I was swung at by a parent nearly thirty years ago during my second year of teaching. I’ve had many careers, but teaching was the most wild.
I'm just about to finish my BEd with a tech and math teachable I chose this over a career in software development cause of AI and a rapidly changing industry this honestly looks more fun, I'd rather be swung at for sticking to my morals then have my bum in chair time recorded daily. But then again we'll see. Wish me luck!
As a teacher who taught for 16 years in TX, different districts across Houston and Dallas. I decided to leave the profession last year for many reasons mentioned in this video. I loved the connections I made with my students, the difference I made in their lives, etc.; I didn't mind working the extra hours without pay when I was single with no kids.Even after starting a family, I did my best to hold on, but it was always a struggle balancing work and family. 3-4 times out of the five days at school, our planning periods were dedicated to team meetings or training. Which meant there was no time to plan lessons or to grade. I worked long hours during the weekday and still had to spend most weekends working. I have two kids, and on my last teaching assignment, I came home with $998 every two weeks. My rent alone was $2200. How is one to survive on that? There was no extra time to work a side hustle. I left and now work in tech, making a little over double my teacher’s salary and with more time to spend with my kids.
Good for you, that you were able to get out.
When you take home $1,996 a month and the Rent is $2,200, that is unsustainable!
I hate to say this, but if enough Teachers quit, then the States will raise Salaries, so Teachers can live on them, without working a "Side Hustle"!
@@rdelrosso1973Exactly!
Thats below poverty wages. So sad.😢
@rdelrosso1973 Anything is substainable pal. You never heard of moving and finding a cheaper place? Prissy
Bless you for having worked as a teacher.
Perfect example of how teachers aren't valued.
In our state professions that are deemed "woman's work" rarely are valued. This also means we don't value women as much as men.
I hope this changes in my lifetime, but given the current political direction, in Texas, I fear it will only get worse before getting better.
An investment in our teachers is an investment in our future (and this shouldn't be just for the wealthy in private schools) .
Someone I work with says all the time “they don’t make parents like the used to.” And it’s so true. My teacher talked to my mom once because I wasn’t doing my homework and there was hell to pay for that. I didn’t hear the end of it for a while. I can’t imagine the punishment I’d have gotten if I hit my teacher. Parents just aren’t the same. They have no respect and they raise disrespectful children.
My mother would have skinned me alive had I done half of what my students get away with. And that’s if the teacher left anything for them to discipline.
Very simple! Parents don't want to be parents anymore. Parents are being beasties with their kids. That's the reason why we are in this predicament.
Parents get paid FAR less then their parents did, homes are more expensive, food, pay is less, no time to parent.
@@LandonStrauss-hc1sc Fair points. More stressed out parents.
@@LandonStrauss-hc1sc It's still no excuse for not raising their kids and how they end up being disrespectful. These parents made these kids, they need to raise, discipline, and talk to them---in other words, BE a parent!
Reading all your comments, we're having the same problems with the same reasons in Australia. I've been teaching for 15years, the stress due to poor student behaviour and lack of respect and backing from parents and administrators is a huge problem. It's never anyone else's fault, always the teacher...like what are you doing wrong!. You get conditioned to believe that this is the norm until your health reminds you otherwise. 2 years ago I had a stroke at 45 years old... I don't smoke or drink, have no underlying condition and they could not find a reason for my stroke. I truly believe it was as a result of my stress being a teacher.
My father taught for nearly 30 years. The negative health effects were dramatic, and after leaving teaching, have completely resolved.
These stories need to be told more AND they need to be taken seriously.
A lot of parents don't respect teachers and state legislatures don't want to fund public school above and beyond because so many in the GOP are pushing for private school funding through vouchers.
AND they should re-institute corporal punishment (my school used paddles). It worked before, it can work again. Either that, or throw the miscreants in jail. What SHOULD now happen is have a camera set up in EVERY classroom which can be reviewed if a student gets unruly. Right now, it's all he said/she said. That needs to stop.
I’ve taught for 30 years- the majority of my problems have come from students who come from messed up homes/parents with no time for them & from people outside of the classroom and/or school who have no idea what is really going on in education. I saw a big change in behaviors when everyone got phones, tablets, and social media.
YEAP - was it the viruses damaging kids & parents brains 😮
We are now in our third generation of “independent” women and fatherless homes on a mass scale . We can’t expect teachers to be parents to these kids and we need to go back to how it was before no child left behind . Set some expectations and hold the kids to it .
Yea it sucks that now in days both parents have to work like crazy to survive so the kids are getting neglected. As a single mom I’m reallly trying to give my kids real time and lessons they can learn from me not just school
I've always said if people complain about stupid people they should be supporting education. Unfortunately ive come to learn many of them just want to feel superior to others.
They dont complain about the cashier because it harms them at all, they do it to feel better than them. Those people absolutely are against education.
@@liberalismisaids9564 Women have to be independent to support themselves & their families. Women don't have to stay with an abusive spouse, anymore. Single family homes are a problem, though. The major problem is teaching their children to respect authority.
Teachers in DC sending y'all love, Texas❤
I got out in 2012 after 12 years of teaching. Things were getting bad then. I transitioned into another field. I still miss what teaching is supposed to be, not what it currently is. I fear the system will have to completely fail before real change will occur.
As a substitute teacher in San Francisco, I can say that the physical violence and disrespect is horrendous at all grade levels. The stress from my last assignment became so bad that I had constant chest pain and insomnia. My doctor made me come into his office and then get an ECG because he thought I might be having a heart attack. I asked an administrator why students are not suspended for horrific behavior, and she told me, "It's not a good look." There are many teachers in the district who are currently on disability. I left my previous assignment, and am working irregularly now. It is just not worth the stress. There are parents who will not recognize their children's problematic behaviors, and put the blame on teachers. These parents can be very vicious.
Oh my, I believe it is even harder for substitutes.
Parents are the main problem in all of this. Raise better kids!
That is just insane. All the teachers should quit.
@@sarahm.5356Guess some teachers shouldn’t have been going behind parents backs and grooming them 💁🏼♀️
@@theoriginalkrabbypatty Teachers do not set the curriculum. If you have a problem with what is being taught, take it up with your state's governor, the school board, and administration. Teachers are the low men on the totem pole. In my state, what you call "grooming" is the law, and teachers who don't follow it can be fired and/or fined, regardless of personal beliefs.
I taught in TX for about 10 years. I"ll give you a few reasons why I and other teachers left teaching. The principals go and hide if they don't want to be bothered. The students are so disrespectful you will almost have to threaten if they hit you, you WILL knock them out! Then of course you will get a child abuse case for just defending yourself! Then you have a felony and can never get another decent job! Send these grown kids to the office and
they" ll send them back with a pat on the back, candy and tell YOU you have to deal with it! There are middle school teacher cliques that will exclude you and talk about you if you don't hang out or party with them. I've had to hold my going to the bathroom over an hour later because no one came to watch my class. I've run multiple lesson plans staying late at school for these lesson plans. I had normal blood pressure but felt one day like I was going to have a stroke. I've had to go into the hallway to get air after being called multiple names by students just for asking for homework. You really go into teaching to help students but the system is set up to help them fail and you're just a casualty along the way! They ought to let teachers that have actually taught for years in the classroom set the agendas and rules for schools. I left TX and teaching two years ago for customer service and I'm happy I did! TX will continue to lose teachers and the students will continue to go downhill and the bottom line will be we as a country will suffer and I predict the U. S. will be the most backwards uneducated country on the planet!
I say this with all sincerity: congratulations on getting out of Texas and the teaching profession. I hope one day to get my daughter out, though I wish it could be to a different country altogether. ❤
@@NoOligarchsyou can do my dear, I’m rooting for you. I pray your dreams come true in Jesus name amen. ❤
Congratulations my dear. I left teaching in 2018. Never again will I set foot in a classroom. ❤
Former educator here 👋
Hear hear to the last sentence 👏
Let’s fast forward this by continually voting for the orange nincompoop buffoon and his buffoon cronies…I want my “I told you so” in the next 10 or so years 😂😭
It's just not teaching. It's experienced in our professions as well.
😮 i was once a teacher for 6 years. It was not easy dealing with kids. Parents, staff. I cant even imagine how difficult would be in a public school now.
I live in Massachusetts. My town has an average teacher salary of $94k. Yes, it's on the coast but it's not a posh area. We're like in the top 40% of schools in the state. Massachusetts consistently has the best education in the nation, on par with anywhere in the world. THE MONEY MATTERS.
As a student I hated most of my teachers and I was what I consider a “bad” student. My attitude, grades, and self esteem were all garbage. That being said I still never disrespected my teachers the way kids do now. That girl that pepper sprayed her teacher because he took her phone because she was using it to CHEAT. He lost his job! It’s insane to me how shitty of a person you have to be to assault your teachers.
Respect for acknowledging that
SHe would have gotten touched up nicely. At that point IDGAF. SHe would never do it again
Hate. Is such a strong word. Maybe you dislike the Teachers because of you. Instead of getting to know the Teacher. 😊
And a different student had punched that teacher just 2 months before. I hope he can quit and get another job. There are a lot of British and American teachers working overseas and this video explains a lot of the 'push' factors.
@@sherryhillman9197some teachers are assholes. Truth. They form opinions based on your color, accent, attire, etc.
I had to end my teaching career early after 28 years. I now work in a blue collar factory job. I can not BELIEVE how easy my job is now and my hourly pay is about the same. Schools abuse teachers as a matter of course. Multiple school administrators have literally been some of the worst human beings I've met in my life.
I miss my kids! 😥
It's a shame that you wasn't getting paid more than a factory job. That's ridiculous!!! You got a degree. We gotta change things.
Yes!! I work at a library making library cards, shelving books, etc. I make the same as I did teaching how after 3 raises and I just started less than 6 months ago😊
@@neatofication that's crazy. Teacher pay needs to change.
That was my experience- the adults were worse than the kids!
i miss my special needs kids, but when you get paid 14.40 an hour and the principal doesn't care, you can't stay. when they talk to you like you're 12, you either leave or have a heart attack
I was a substitute teacher during the pandemic after losing my job. Yeah, teaching is a thankless job where the parents want you to be the child's teacher, parent, and best friend. Not to mention the only time a parent would call is if you took the kid's cell phone or called the kid out on their B.S.
I grew up in the 1960's . I attended Catholic school Grades 1-6. Eastern European nuns , Felician order! Those nuns ran a Tight Ship! So did my father, a former US Naval and scientist . German ancestry ! Dad helped built the very first Atomic reactors for Submarines/ Admiral Rickover's program. You got in trouble at school , you got in trouble at home! Thanks Dad! I got through high school and college without taking any drugs or smoking anything ! I left the church years ago ,but there were a few good things I took with me! Thank God!
My mom was a wonderful teacher. She worked like 60 per week to do planning, grading, and setting up the classroom. The teachers in her school district went over a decade without ANY raises while administrators' salaries almost doubled.
She finally retired any barely got any retirement after 40 years of teaching. It's gotta change, these current teachers are putting up with horrible parents and students while being paid peanuts.
I live in Vermont where teachers make far more money than the a erage worker, have far better benefit programs and pensions, something denied to corporate workers.
Most people have 2 or 3 jobs and don't have much I bet you guys have a home and decent vehicles, sounds completely normal to me, it's called reality.
We wouldn’t have doctors 🥼 and lawyers without teachers 👩🏫 which was very well stated !!!!
You think? I thought it was one of those things that she thought sounded profound, but really kind of isn't. I mean, is anyone trying to get rid of teachers? What's the point exactly? To extend her thought, a teacher can't teach unless someone builds a school, or builds roads to get there, or dug ditches so there would be proper flood control for those roads, or built a car or a subway so they could get there, or wrote the books they use or built desks and chalkboards or pencils or computers, etc, etc, etc.
I don't know, I feel like you could say something like that about everything. Ditch diggers for the win!
@@deadgolfer6345They’re not trying to get rid of teachers, they’re trying to get rid of public schools
@@naomihill5149 Who?
I am a teacher, and I disagree. It is easy to teach yourself. Just go to a library.
And now that you’re quitting the lift to take care of her next year, we can have an RP, USA
My parents didn't play about education! You were getting so kind of education even if it's trading school. These kids are being told they can do whatever they want by parents, that includes being disrespectful to others. 😢
When I was in high school, a teacher told me I should become a teacher. As if I would want to deal with a bunch of bratty kids and get paid very little and be forced to get a second job
Nowadays, a good percentage of children behave atrociously. Parents expect the school to do their parenting for them. It's honestly one of the major factors for why I will homeschool. I have no intention of letting my kids be around children who are violent and so disrespectful. Especially since schools can't or won't discipline the kids anymore.
Nope, my kids won't be exposed to such utter nonsense that goes mostly unchecked. Both of my sisters were teachers. One quit and will never go back. My other sister git her masters and is now a school librarian. She never wanted back in the classroom again.
I'm a public school teacher. I'm very happy you decided to homeschool because there are far too many disrespectful, out of control, foul mouthed, garbage spewing children. We have several in our kindergarten class that stab, spit, punch, pull hair, curse, describe and draw sexual acts, etc. We are constantly calling CPS, etc. Those abused, unparented children can rob your children of their innocence in a flash. We must protect our own children because schools can't expell or suspend young behaviorally disordered children! It is illegal so the same bad apple kids get "rights to an education". The only protection for your children is home schooling or to find a private school that can expell or reject admission of behavior children.
@@happycook6737 Thank you for sharing your experiences. It's utterly terrible what is going on nowadays. I am so sorry for everything you deal with at work on a daily basis. I know there are amazing teachers out there who truly do their best to educate children, but there is only so much you can do when so much of your class time is being spent handling behavior issues.
It's not that schools won't discipline the kids but it's actually the parents of those children who won't let teachers discipline their kids when they're away from home. Because in the parents' eyes their children can "do no wrong" to which I find nothing but disgusting. That's why right now, I don't wanna have anything to do with kids.
Plus, the last thing I want is another boss who is nothing but greedy for money & very pro-parent.
Former public school teacher here. I was a special education teacher during my last year of teaching. I disciplined students and doled out consequences for their behavior that they didn't like. Yet, my fellow colleagues treated ME as if I was the one who was misbehaving and out of line. Of course, my colleagues absolutely did NOT want the students I mentioned in their classrooms! 😂 My point is, some teachers do discipline, but it can become a reverse uno situation where somehow the sane, civil adult is the one at fault.
@@RebekahAPintoI had that experience as well too many times in my 4 years teaching in inner city schools.
I left teaching 30 years ago because of the disrespect and having been assaulted by a student in the classroom. And they say things have gotten so much worse???? I can't even imagine.
SMDH.
I am a first year teacher in Dallas ISD.
BELIEVE IT.
i just started working in education… doing the job of 2-3 people is hard alone, but the parents are by far the worst part.
Me too, this is now my 3rd - 4th month of teaching.
For me the admin is the worst by far, even worse than the students.
I became an engineering teacher after the economy ruined my civil engineering career in 2007. I was lucky to teach at a high ranking Technical HS. I had mostly all boys that wanted to be there, and it was a pleasure teaching them. I did though retire early because of all the extras that the district added to our tasks. I am now in business with a family member to build and sell homes, it allows me more time for myself.
The pay, you ask? It’s all going to the people in the administration building…while teachers are paying out of their own pockets for basic supplies. The state of public education in this country is laughable at best. My heart goes out to anyone still teaching in our public schools.
Problem is expectation. Public does not mean 'best' or even 'adequate', it means bare bones basics. I really dislike how 'public education' has become the standard, so many kids I see in class should not be there and would thrive in many private school programs or homeschool programs. But their parents are either in default mode (its what you do, the government says so) or they lack the confidence to advocate for a higher standard for their kids through private schooling or homeschooling when it is an option.
Pay for private school teachers is lower and often the job offers no benefits.
@@allisonshaw9341 That is true, relatively speaking. Landing a private school job is generally far more competitive and the pay is at or around public school wages with fewer benefits as you say. Public school teaching jobs are, again being very general, more abundant and easier to hold onto with nice benefits but the quality of life and job satisfaction tends to be much lower.
Amen
@@fortusvictus8297JEEZLUSS! WHAT A WEAK ARGUMENT.
I see several problems, the school administration, the parents, and politicians. Teachers are one of the most valuable professions we have! This country cares more about sports and other industries than those that educate our children. Unbelievable!
Exactly.
YES! It was all about sports team when I was in high school in the 80's too.
I am in a family of educators. After I retired from a job in the public sector I was a substitute teacher for six years in a public school district in Texas. I stopped for several reasons. One, the disrespect from students, the lack of support from teachers and administrators in some of the schools, the pay, and the requirement for eight to ten hours of training in the summer. That training covered the same subjects every summer. I subbed multiple days each week, and it just wasn’t worth it any more.
The experience wasn’t ALL bad, but I can understand why teachers are leaving. If teachers aren’t being respected, substitute teachers certainly won’t be respected, and we weren’t.
I am a first year teacher in Dallas ISD and when you wrote about the lack of support from admin and faculty you hit the nail on the head.
I have NEVER held a job in my entire life (as an adult as well as jobs in high school) with ZERO SUPPORT.
Even the job I had at McDonalds had a manager who would answer your questions and would show you how to do stuff.
At my school, in my District, the lack of support and help is hard to articulate and even harder to imagine.
I am convinced they are setting me up for failure.
Spent several years teaching in NC. Later, I taught in South America, Central Asia, and Europe. NC was by far the hardest, 12 hour days, violent students, nasty parents, and near total lack of support. I was expected to perform miracles within a culture that seemed to despise learning.
Here are the reasons we are quitting
1. State legislatures putting more and more accountability metrics on the backs of teachers
2. Parents no longer holding their children accountable for their actions
3. Low pay. Several of my teacher friends are on food stamps
4. State education leaders changes content and curriculum standards every few years
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yet we pay the most for schools. I wonder whose fault that is....oh the unions that always strike at least in IL
I worked for a short time in a restaurant. People like to stereotype who the worst tippers were, but for me it was always teachers. I was never upset about that, but sad that such important people were not properly compensated.
@@muchokatanaslol5649 Since when do people of IL pay to attend public schools?
@@pavelbuchnevich1229 I remember plenty of taxes. Property taxes and such.
I’m a teacher. I love teaching so bad, but I don’t teach anymore because of everything they said. The disrespect from students AND parents, the lack of support from the school administration, the ridiculous demands and the low salary were causing me a lot of health problems.
Lack of support is the biggest one for me, as a new teacher in Dallas ISD.
Honestly my job is almost enjoyable except for when I deal with the administrators.
If I quit my job in teaching it wont be due to the students, it will be due to the Administrators.
The admins I deal with always have a complaint, yet when you ask them what the solution, they CANNOT tell you.
Also, I learned pretty quickly to avoid asking admins questions because they NEVER have a decent answer to BASIC questions they are paid to know.
I am convinced they dont want me there and want me to disappear.
To this day I have never had an admin, or ANYONE in the faculty who have reached out to me offering advice, tips, or where the cafeteria is which is weird because this is the first job n my adult life where someone did NOT offer help or advice to a new employee.
Even at the WORST jobs I have had there is always someone available to help you figure stuff out.
At every other job I have had there is some sort of manager or boss, and his job is to make sure ALL EMPLOYEES know what they are supposed to do and how to do it. It is LITERALLY their job description.
At my school, it is the opposite.
The people who are supposed to be your bosses (the admin) move heaven and earth to avoid answering questions and offering advice, but instead criticize you for ridiculous stuff even though they cannot tell you how to correct the problem.
So yes, the problem with our education system starts at the top, and works its way down.
The QUICKEST way to fix a school is to fire the Admin and work your way down.
@@shaft5 You are most likely to not receive support if you're doing a good job and that makes everyone else look bad, especially the administration. I'm sorry, but it's the true. And, yes, sometimes we find that special someone that in good faith is willing to help you and give you tips, not only to handle the situations that we face on a daily basis, but to handle the system where you work now. But it's not really something that happens that often as it might have seemed for you. I'm glad it has happened to you before, but based on my experience, it's more like a 50/50 possibility of finding a special someone like that.
Thank you for your service! 🙏
I HAD to leave. I couldn't do it anymore. I was suffering from depression and anxiety. I got diagnosed with high blood pressure after I started teaching. When we were working form home during the pandemic, I was taken off of my blood pressure medication. But as soon as we went back into the classroom I had to get put back on it.
I remember being in elementary school and knowing right away that I didn't want to be a teacher. The amount of disrespectful kids in one class was outrageous. And that was in the 90s. I can't even imagine how horrible these kids are now.
Parents need to do better and stop depending on teachers to discipline your children.
Teachers aren't allowed to discipline the children. They don't want to loose their jobs.
Right. I graduated in 2006 and I can remember not knowing who I disliked more: my patronizing authoritarian teachers most of whom treated me like I was perpetually 6 years old, or the majority of the other students who actually acted like it. I honestly wish I had been home schooled in retrospect, except, oh wait, I didn't much like my parents either lol. I can't even imagine what its like in there with all the social media crap now.
@@susanpendell4215 I think a lot of these parents want the teachers to actually raise the kids because they're around them more than the parents are, and then blame the teachers for not making their kids' behavior better in those few hours a day because teachers can't properly discipline the kids.
Even parents who spout "it takes a village" should know that it does NOT mean abandon the kid TO the village and hope for the best. Parents need to be that leader by example before their kids get to the age where their just-as-unenlightened peers take over as examples.
I trained to teach, but never got my classroom (bad timing mostly). Subbed forever til I couldn't afford to. I tutor at learning centers because the parents want to know what's going on and (mostly) hold their kids accountable for unfinished work and practices. But the classroom itself? I gave that up ages ago because the kids' behavior and parents don't want to hear about it. Your hands are tied and the kids know it, so there's little incentive for them to behave.
Kids in my high school still grabbed punched acted stupid I stayed high because I was so bored and worked high school was a joke I learned more in a room by myself at eight than I learned in what four years ?Can you count too ten ?Read spot goes stop ?Jill goes there up that hill too get knocked up again ?
An attack on society's backbone will only leave us crippled
Historically in domestic culture wars the educators from all levels are always the first victims.
I know someone who worked as a teacher in Dallas. As much as she loved the kids it took a toll. She quit after a year took another job with a pay cut and has never looked back.
In 2013, while at the lunch table, 17 of my colleagues divulged they were on anxiety meds. Only a counselor/coach and I were not. It's a ridiculous situation to expect us to do all these special projects beyond "teaching."
Parents don’t say no or give consequences for bad behavior. My friend , a teacher of 25 years, recently got kicked by a student she has known since elementary school. Mom did absolutely nothing. She has said the exact same thing. We are watching the complete breakdown of society and it isn’t just happening here in America
Your friend should have filed charges.
Even scarier Texas is an open carry state and is ground zero for school shootings. Parents, I hold you responsible for your kids and the people you vote for.
Society broke down years when we started letting the American left corrupt the minds of the masses via the bloated and braindead public education system.
The same in Germany. We have news titles for children beating teachers.
Welcome to the corporate world. Where investment in slaves is bad business practice. Importing new slaves to replace the old is much more efficient.
This is so sad. Teachers deserve more
Yes they do
I am a teacher, and I disagree. Teachers don't deserve more. It is supply and demand. The problem is the system is so horrendously inefficient. Fix the system, and teachers would make much more and spend much less time.
When the illiteracy rates of high school graduates begins to decline I will agree. Until the literacy rates start improving I'm not going to believe they deserve a penny more
@@rachelsill79 the classroom is not the only place you learn.
My K-12 experience was from 2000 to 2013, kids in our school were much more respectful and less entitled, sure we had a bad kid here and there and fights, I noticed a strong difference when my sister graduated in 2017 from high school, like a huge culture difference, and not for the better
I have a kid that says he hates school and I noticed that his a positive comment from his teacher uplifted his entire outlook and he even defends the teacher for the class he failed
I'm a preschool teacher. I've had 4 panic attacks since I've started GSRP. Teaching is a rewarding job when you are not treated like a babysitter. No one respects teachers and it begins with parents.
It’s not just Texas, it’s everywhere. Record numbers of educators are leaving the profession. The pay is ridiculous. 😢
These are all core teachers. I am an elementary specials teacher. I have seven classes, no passing and sometimes a class & 1/4. Almost 30 kids in a tiny TINY Art room. I have dodged being hit in the face multiple times. The disrespect from some parents is incredible. Attacked because of their student’s bad behavior. We are supposed to just take it. There are many classes that I see that are just so sweet and my favorite kids. Those days are great. I am holding on for those students. But, want out. My son already quit teaching. No respect from The big boys in Texas.
Thank you for doing this story. Very sad. Almost hopeless.
Children need to be taught by parents to respect the teachers.🕊🇺🇲💕
This starts with public figures modeling respect to teachers. Both parents and their children will learn how to respect teachers when they see "important" people respecting teachers. Not before.
Everyone watches how others are treated and forms their on view to respect that person or not.
- public school teacher in a dedicated school for children on the Autism Spectrum.
I was a teacher in California and I left it in 2010. Prior to teaching I was very active and athletic. No health problems. Always got a clean bill of health. During teaching my blood pressure started going up and I started having blood sugar issues. I constantly felt sick. After I quit teaching my health issues went away and I felt 200% better. Teaching was a nightmare. It isn't only problem students, but co-workers as well. Many of the teachers and admin staff are toxic people and create problems. I remember thinking "this is no better than working at a low wage job".
My daughter was a Special Ed teacher, she taught one year, then quit. There was a couple things happening in her classroom with an aide that wasn’t proper protocol. She spoke with the principal, the principal just shrugged her shoulders. She couldn’t handle the attitudes.
You're right. I taught high school, too. Those toxic teachers were narcissists. That's why I quit. The students were great.
@@chaserofthelight484 the principals are highly paid and get decent benefits. Most are desk jockeys that are little bureaucrats. They don't care for teachers because they represent the school district.
Amen to this! I had the exact same experience.
I am a new teacher and I agree 💯 about the administrators.
Honestly my job is almost enjoyable except for when I deal with the administrators.
If I quit my job in teaching it wont be due to the students, it will be due to the Administrators.
The admins I deal with always have a complaint, yet when you ask them what the solution, they CANNOT tell you.
Also, I learned pretty quickly to avoid asking admins questions because they NEVER have a decent answer to BASIC questions they are paid to know.
I am convinced they dont want me there and want me to disappear.
To this day I have never had an admin, or ANYONE in the faculty who have reached out to me offering advice, tips, or where the cafeteria is which is weird because this is the first job n my adult life where someone did NOT offer help or advice to a new employee.
Even at the WORST jobs I have had there is always someone available to help you figure stuff out.
At every other job I have had there is some sort of manager or boss, and his job is to make sure ALL EMPLOYEES know what they are supposed to do and how to do it. It is LITERALLY their job description.
At my school, it is the opposite.
The people who are supposed to be your bosses (the admin) move heaven and earth to avoid answering questions and offering advice, but instead criticize you for ridiculous stuff even though they cannot tell you how to correct the problem.
So yes, the problem with our education system starts at the top, and works its way down.
The QUICKEST way to fix a school is to fire the Admin and work your way down.
Teachers also need more support from their superiors with unruly students and parents. It seems like administrators are on the customer is always right attitudes when it comes to parent's.
Parents and their kids need to be held accountable for their lack of parenting and their kids actively choosing to be a unruly brat.
Its sad that teachers, teaching assistants and even head teachers all over the world are quitting due to disrespectful and violent children, and their parents allowing it to happen or blaming staff for their childrens actions! In years to come i do fear that schools will be a thing of the past because nobody is going to want to do these jobs anymore.
What these teachers are saying is so true. So many parents expect teachers to do miracles with their kids but parents need to learn to be parents themselves. Many classrooms are like Behavioral Units. Many schools are like Daycares for parents cuz they dont wantvto deal with their kids.
How does a single mom teach her kid(s) to be respectful when her own single mom never taught her. The only qualification many of these moms have is that they didn't get an abortion after their one night stand.
Parents have an extremely difficult time as children are coming home with dangers and extreme political views gained from the leftist political education they receive at school, such as gender theory, and social justice. My young child came home thinking it was okay to kill police officers for just minding their business and sitting in a police car having lunch. My daughter has difficulty writing a sentence but knows exactly who George Floyd is and supports liberation theology aligned to the Black Panthers. In addition, to the fact that schools are changing the gender of children without notifying parents and administering drugs. Children are even denied a name, as they are called by pronouns. Can there be anything more destabilizing for a child to be nameless, nothing more than a collective group of he, she, them and theys. I am sure all these issues are negatively impacting family dynamics and resulting in children acting out. Teachers are nothing more than useful idiots who are being used to destroy Western culture. Then you have Affirming groups/spaces where children are segregated into spaces based on race and labeled as white oppressors or the oppressed based on race and sexuality. In my state, 5 year old are coming home from school absolutely traumatized, stating that they don't want to be white and that all white people are bad. I called the state equity office to report the schools heavy handed implementation of its equity program, which was emotionally harming young children and the state employee said "Don't you think white children should feel the same pain as black children." So, you teachers you are hurting children. The only sympathy I have for teachers is that they too are victims of teachers colleges. Go look up the paper by Susan E. Livingston about liberating elite children in private schools. This woman teaches at teachers colleges.
@@damionkeeling3103 Which is why abortion must remain legal in all 50 states. Call it what you will.
@@damionkeeling3103 do you know the Lord??
@@maxalberts2003 do you think the Lord endorses abortion?? Remember God's opinion is the only one that counts. There won't be any excuses with Him. God loves you.
I had 47 students in one class the year before I left teaching high school, and that class was the one that needed the most help. The workload was incredible. In addition, some in the administration at the time were not supportive when kids had behavior problems. The pay was not bad, but class size and respect were critical issues for me.
Same situation with my classrooms in Brazil 🇧🇷......
Capitalisim and the pursuit of cutting corners to save a buck has seriously poisoned so many institutions. Like education is not a place to cut corners!!
The administrators are no help, yet the administrators frequently outnumber the teachers. What are they actually there for?
I’m here in North TX.. luckily for only a few more months! Been here 2 yrs and we’ve got elementary and middle schoolers. We spoil our teachers and school staff. Coming from Minnesota, it’s sad how often they need donations for dances, classsupplies, EVERYTHING. I never saw that in MN. I’ve seen how overworked these teachers are. My daughter’s Spanish teacher driving between middle and HS teaching all day with gallstones.. she eventually quit, and they dumped the workload on the other Spanish teacher, who found out from students 1st before the staff told her. They should all be earning 6 figures if we can afford these 💩 politicians.
Why? Parents raising entitled and disrespectful kids expecting teachers to do the parenting. The American public school system is dead. R.I.P. America... the last generation.
I am a former inner city teacher who quit because the stress destroyed my health. The end of this video had me in tears. I feel the same as these teachers. I miss being in the classroom and wonder who will be left and how much harder it will get for them.
I taught for 11.5 years in public education and last school year was my last. I was exhausted mentally, physically, and emotionally. I couldn’t do another year. I decided to take a pay cut, I mean a PAY CUT, because I couldn’t endure another year. I am pursing another career.
I am so sorry. Teachers are so critical. I wish you well going forward.
I just retired from a school district. I wasn't even a teacher, and I couldn't wait to get out. I actually attended public school at the same campus where I worked my last 8 years until I retired. I worked in the private sector for the 39 years before that, and I can tell you the wage and benefit package was the best I'd ever had. But it wouldn't be enough for me to spend every day in a modern classroom.
Republican lawmakers LOVE the poorly educated.
So why don’t we do a voucher system and let people choose schools. Clearly the education system isn’t working for anyone?
Who’s to blame? TOXIC ADMIN
Parents
I had to retire in the middle of the school year in 2020. I was Zoom teaching in the middle of the pandemic and I lost my home in a wildfire. Many parents thought I was being selfish. I didn't have a home! I left my job for the benefit of the kids because I believed that they needed a teacher that wasn't going through the trauma that I was and could better serve the students.
My niece works with a company that places English speaking people in another country as English teachers. She was surprised how many calls she receives from teachers in Texas, Florida and other southern states who want to leave the country. Most of them love teaching, but not the state they are teaching. Teachers have been vilified and now stupefied by the parents, students and politicians. They all said that they do not want to teach in this country.
I have NEVER, NEVER understood why there is so little respect for teachers, truly! We would not have a functioning society without teachers!!!! Every American has had teachers in their lives teaching them the skills to succeed. I have only substituted, but I have seen what teachers go through just in the classroom alone, this doesn't even take into account all the red tape and behind the scenes prep and aggravation they endure. It is SHAMEFUL that pompous politicians won't move heaven and earth to improve their salaries and work conditions. They deserve the utmost respect and I have always given that to teachers. I was there for every parent/teacher conference, there for back to school night to meet the teachers personally, there to help in the classroom when volunteers were needed, etc. Our society needs to demand better. Better pay, respect, and supplies for our teachers equals better quality education for our students. Better school facilities equals better work places and better learning abilities. VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!!! Raise your voices because America is sinking faster than you realize. We are losing highly educated, quality teachers at an alarming rate that won't be easy to replace any time soon, meaning way fewer teachers for way too many kids....we will be far behind the rest of the world in the blink of an eye.
At 57 years old I can STILL remember every mean teacher I ever had.
Not all teachers deserve more.
@@freespeech4ALL1966 34 here. My high school teachers were lazy and unmotivated to work. I vividly remember my high school math teacher telling us that all he has to do is write the AIM on the board and he would get paid for teaching us. He did this for months. After writing the AIM on the board, he would just rant about his life. I still remember my social studies teacher being so lazy that he just read from a script and didn't check to see if anyone else listening or how the audience reacting to this method. None of them were motivated in teaching.
The disrespect is out of control. My kids love going to school and they love their teachers. My baby’s teacher says “Clarissa is so sweet and she always hugs me and wants to help” . I often feel bad because I can’t do as much as i want at home as i work full time and im in school full time but when those teachers need me, im there. Anything needed for the classroom, i try my best to do. It sucks because teachers really do deserve more, if the good teachers continue to leave and no one respects the profession enough to enter it, where does that leave society as a whole?
I am so sorry that they do not feel appreciated. Teachers are the first foundation of our society. I am thankful that you decided to teach. Stay strong and keep advocating for change.
THANK YOU TEACHERS!!!! I AM BLESSED TO HAVE EXCELLENT TEACHERS GROWING UP WHO TRULY CHANGED MY LIFE. I HAD DISTANT PARENTS AND I LOOKED FORWARD TO SCHOOL EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. THEY TAUGHT ME THE LOVE OF LEARNING! LEARNING IS COOL!! INGELLICENCE IS COOL!! I learn daily, I enjoy learning more, researching things, becoming better, more intelligent.