Are you sympathetic to Teachers and what they have to put up with nowadays?

Question

I would never teach the rude kids of today-just adults for me -thanks! And btw I do love kids-I have some of my own -I just can't stand the rude kids...if you know what I mean.

To trebobnagrom -I do NOT agree with your statement that kids are horrible creatures. It's all a matter of how they were raised. My daughters have never had a behaviour issue in their lives at school or daycare -the worst they do is whine at home and nag each other. My question is aimed at addressing the kids who come to school with weapons, foul language and bad attitudes and the teachers have to put up with this. And as others have pointed out-some of the parents are to blame as they do not help the situation one bit!!

Answer 1

I am totally! I work at a daycare.

Answer 2

OK, somewhere along the line, I missed the lesson on how to teach Johnny how to put on the condom. Although I listen to kids talk crudely and sexually I have never had anyone ask me to teach anything even slightly related to sex. Maybe if i started in the 5th-6th grade, most of my students wouldn't end up pregnant and drop out of high school. Then again, one of my students brought a vibrator to school two years ago and proceeded to show the other students what to do with it. And no, I didn't stand and watch her, I was absent that day.

I do not get all the time off some people think and when I do, most of the time, it isn't paid. The only time I work an 8 hour day is if I have to take my son to an appointment. Otherwise, I usually stay at school 2-3 hours before or after school is out. I am expected to spend many evenings and even Saturdays taking workshops without pay ( and no one provides me a 5 star lunch with drinks, either, like corporate workers get), I bring home work everyday. I go into school at least a week before school starts to get things ready ( in the heat, no air conditioning)

Answer 3

Absolutely. Anybody who thinks teachers don't end up working after school way more than the amount of time they spent on lunch and planning period, is an idiot. Furthermore, teachers in do not get 4 to 5 months off. Hour for hour, if you include the amount of time teachers spend 1) grading, 2) preparing lessons and material for classes, and 3) sponsoring and helping students with extra-curricular activities, you find that teachers work just as much as a year round worker. Summer is the time when teachers collapse and catch their breath.(Even then they still have to attend summer training!)

In addition, teachers are constantly expected to do more and more. Teachers are supposed to somehow make up in class for bad parenting at home. Kits now have shorter attention spans and are less likely to respect authority.

I used to have all the answers to America's education problems, and most of them in my mind were the fault of the teacher... Until I became a teacher myself. It is a very tough job.

Having said that, I wouldn't go back to my old job for anything. I have an active part in preparing young people for totally new world. I have a chance to help young people avoid mistakes that I made. There are students whom I have inspired, who will look me up or write me the rest of their lives, because they feel I affected a change in their lives. Enough said.

Answer 4

I am TOTALLY sympathetic to teachers and what they have to put up with. Society has totally changed and students are way more disrespectful than ever. I believe teachers should earn way more than what they are!!! Are they not the ones that taught these high paid lawyers and doctors? I believe they're brain surgeons because they really have to cultivate a young mind into a thinking power house. Everyday teachers do minor surgery on the mind by cutting away wrong material and adding needed material to function in this world. They need the backing of parents in order to make things better in education. We live in a country that misappropriates money in the wrong areas. Remember a mind is a terrible thing to waste, so why are we as country wasting it on other things and not investing it in our future: the school system which everyone of us in America starts out in!

Answer 5

Absolutely; they get little help from parents, who expect them to babysit rude, disrespectful children. On top of it, they need to jump through hoops for the administration and the government, with the NCLB mandates. It's a wonder that there is a shortage of teachers. For all of the schooling one has to go through in order to become a teacher, the pay doesn't nearly compare to what a person graduating would make in other professions!

Answer 6

As I teacher, I am real sympathetic to teachers, especially high school. It's frustrating having to deal with young adults who are discovering who they are, trying to fit in, acting obnoxious in class, not paying attention and receiving a salary that is just more than dirt.

Answer 7

other than the kids, which is kinda hard not to have there, they have it made. only work about 7-8 mo. a year, off all summer almost a month at Christmas, 2 weeks at spring break, 6 hr. days
and no way of knowing if they are doing a good job or not. they should know what their are getting into ,long before they start teaching...............................

Answer 8

No, not at all. The NEA created the mess and the teachers today are more concerned in teaching Johnny how to put on a condom than teaching him to read.

THANK YOU Liberals.

Answer 9

I hear you. I am a young teacher and just finished teaching a bunch of grade 8 hellions. I say, "Spare the rod and spoil the child."

Answer 10

I dont know if sympathetic would be the right word, howabout a state of total shock? Teachers have the one most hardest job in the world, taking care of someone else's brat all day but not being able to disipline him/her for fear of a lawsuit. When all they really want to do is yank up that back-talking, smartass brat by the hair and blister thier backside. Kids today are totally horrible creatures. They have absolutely no respect for anyone or anything. They are rude and inconsiderate. This all ties in with crime in the streets. Parents: take charge at home. Start at day one. Do not let your child run all over you. You are the parent. Teach your children to have respect for others and respect for themselves. It is not acceptible to use curse words, make out, talk and laugh loudly, or dress in a way that leaves little to the imagination, in public. I have a 10 yr old and a 4 yr old, and if they ever do one of these things I can promise you they will get spanked, not just a little slap on the ***, but a SPANKING, and yes, I will most likely use a belt. I do not care what the people at Child Protective Services have to say about that. My kids will say yes mam and yes sir to every adult they encounter, including me. They will dress appropriatly for school, (and this means no jeans so low I can see their underwear) get there on time, sit down and shut up. They will NOT talk back to their teachers because they know they will suffer the consequences when they get home. And they will not curse in front of their Mother. These things are all common curtesy, people dont teach them to their kids anymore. In return for their curteys, I promise to love them fiercly, haul them, their friends, and all their junk around to every baseball, football, volleyball, and soccer game they are playing in, I promise to cheer loudly from the sidelines at every event and hug them and tell them they were wonderfull afterwards, I promise to tell them in words that I love them everyday, and to do things to show them just how much. I promise to feed them healthy meals everday(this sometimes includes their friends too), and to listen to them when they talk, no matter if it makes sense to me or not, I promise not to yell or scream at them or make them feel afraid. And for all this, when it is all over and they are grown, I get to buy them that first car and pray to God they don't wreck it, and to top it all off, fork over thousands of dollars for college. My message is this: love your kids enough to teach them to be respectfull. I have a couple of friends who are teachers and they have told me horrible stories about instances in the classroom. We seriously need to re-vamp our schools, lets get the dicipline back in, if parents dont like it, home schooling is always an option.

Answer 11

Yes, GOvenrment BS mainly...anything government gets involved with turns grom gold to crap...they have SADIM touch -just opposite of MIdas!