How do high school teachers put up with all those students?

Question

I never questioned this until I saw what it looks like from the outside. I was never a model student and I never took into consideration how tough teaching can be. What drives these people to want to put up with a bunch of teenagers all day long?

Answer 1

Maybe this will help you understand. This evening I received a phone call from a former student and his wife, the class president of the class of 1976. They called to invite me to their class reunion at the end of this month. In the forty years I taught in public schools, these are the types of kids who made it all so rewarding. I remembered both of them well, and I was touched that they had remembered me for an occasion so important to them.

Cheers!!

Answer 2

Because we know you're all terrific at heart and we love it when we get to 'see the light bulb go on"! On some days, certain among you are a trial and a tribulation. But after years and years of teaching, the best reward is this: they come back to visit, or see you on the street and they have to stop you and tell you what wonderful memories they have, some ask questions like yours and want to know how we put up with them in particular, but that smiling face of yours, that happy person you have become, participating in life, THAT'S the reason we do it. I loved it for 22 years...until I met an administrator whose only purpose in life is to prove he's the boss. And the boss knows best...NOT! I quit.

Answer 3

I have graduated from school only 6 years ago, and I have told myself that I will do anything but be a teacher. Guess what job do I do now??? Well, I work as a teacher for just one reason. I want to be the teacher I have never had. I am not saying that it's quite easy, as there are kids that would do anything to make you go crazy, but I take it as a challenge and try to cope with it.

Answer 4

The best part about teaching high schoolers is the knowledge that they're not grown up yet. If they act like total asses now, it might be that they will grow out of it later. We can see the foundations of decent human beings in just about all of them at one point or another.

However, if you work with *adult* jerks, well, they're pretty much stuck that way short of a miracle or intervention. They had their chance to grow up, and look what they did with it. Plus they're not have as creative or clever as teenagers who are still experimenting with their views of the world.

Answer 5

There is no one answer, they have a love for teaching, the trill of a challange, and the hope to make a difference on just one student.

Not all students are little monsters, but I can be quite a challanege dealing with the issues of teen life.

The best reward is when a studnet comes backs years later and thanks them for there hard work.

Answer 6

I used to ask myself the same question. I taught the little kids for almost 25 years (K-2). Then I was moved up to the 6th and 7th, I LOVE them! They are just so much fun! I imagine that as we mature and sometimes have kids of our own that reach those grades, we learn to appreciate them more.

Answer 7

I think most high school teachers must have the ability to search for and find the good in every little person and then bring it out.

Answer 8

Yeah I think about it now, and even though I got good grades and did well, I would have wanted to smack me! I have the upmost respect for High School teachers.

Answer 9

You train them to be nice and play well with each other. Some take longer than others to learn.

Answer 10

just the thought of June July and August !