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I think your comment has more to do with you patting yourself on the back than any attempt to show support for your fellow educators. Congrats - I think, or ummm thanks for the pep talk. Smh
This year isn't plagued with occasional "hard days". Every day this year has been unusually hard. It's getting worse. If you have been in education for 23 years then you have to be experiencing the downward spiral. I love my kids and love what I do, but this year is making me old, quick.
Thanks for your share and the reminder. Try to always assume we are all coming from a place of good intentions here. Know that is not always true, but it sure helps me hear the message of hope in this post and not feel irritated or something.
Wow CES…I didn’t read it that way at all. I read it as someone who is happy with their career choice and has no regrets.
Context matters when they basically say I see you all struggling, but I’m not! You’ll be fine!
I think your experience is great for you. The kids are the easiest part of some teachers’ jobs. Let that sink in. The kids. Are. The easiest. When working in a hostile environment teaching can become life-alteringly toxic. You also teach in a state with a teachers Union that can collectively bargain for you. Many states, including NC where I taught until this year do not. Collective bargaining is illegal in NC. In some districts they treat schools as if the principal has their own little fiefdom. Admin gets to do what they want and it’s up to you to make that happen. Count your blessings, indeed. Not everyone who shares your job title shares your privileges.
Well said. I have never looked back either and have enjoyed a lot of it.
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I think when people talk about it being hard, it rarely has to do with the teaching or the kids, or at least in the way you mean.
IES, I agree with you in a lot of ways. I agree that I signed up for the good days and the bad days. Teaching is a lot like a marriage. You take it with the good and the bad. I, like you, am tremendously blessed, in that I work in a great district where teachers are appreciated, and admin seems to know how hard we are working to provide the very best education that we can.
As someone else said, this is not true in every district. But I, like you, find teaching to be its own reward. The opportunity to give back is the greatest that I get I have kids with physical needs that they can not get met at home--things like needing jeans and school supplies, that I am positioned to get for them. The blessing is in the giving back, not in the paycheck and the praise.
I hear you, as I started teaching after a career shift. My first couple years were hard as I had people telling me how I ought to do my job… when I needed to figure it out on my own.
“Don’t be so heavenly minded that you are no earthly good.” I’m glad you have arrived to where we should all be but be careful. You were bragging while offering no help.
My days are hard. Some of my kids are really challenging and make me loathe coming into work. Every year I have one or two who are like that. Fortunately it’s never more than that. I don’t work at a school with a lot of concrete support. It’s a lot of “we know it’s hard” but then nothing changes.
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