Reflection time, what weren’t you prepared for when you became a teacher? For me, I wasn’t prepared for the entitled attitudes some of these kids have. I thought I was ready to handle entitled parents but I didn’t expect the kids to be worse than the parents!

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I mean, a lot of things.

The role violence plays in the lives of students outside of school.

The fact that society would trend towards active hostility towards the pursuit of intellectual growth for its own sake.

The advent of social media, influencers, etc.

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I started teaching around 1988. Things were very different then…students, parents, and admin. My cooperating teachers, when I student taught, was tough. She really prepared me for teaching. She would evaluate my lessons, have me help with the infrequent IEP, and taught me the “housekeeping “ things every teacher should know.

As time went by, I could really see the change in parents and students you described above. The entitlement student display would have been comical if it wasn’t real. After almost thirty years in the classroom, I retired because students and parents had no accountability; administrators became weak, and the district piled on so much work during Covid. A year after the kids came back, I left.

It’s really to bad that young teachers don’t get to experience the kind of classroom and students I had early on in my career. I think the situation you describe is exactly why education will experience a teacher shortage in the near future. Keep plugging away and do what you feel is appropriate. Stick to the rules you implement. It’s the only chance our society has to make our educational system strong again. ❤️❤️

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Speaking from my experience as a first year art teacher at an urban school district in 2018, I wasn’t prepared for the disrespect, the lack of administrative support, parents sticking up for their disrespectful brats, and the fear of being let go because I couldn’t keep up with unrealistic expectations. At that point, I lost my passion for teaching.

I slowly rebuilt my passion after moving back to my hometown to teach. There is still disrespect and lazy students, but at a smaller scale. At least the disrespect is not towards me “the teacher” for the most part.

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I wasn’t prepared for administrators who talk out of both sides of their mouths. 🦈

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I would say the lack of available resources. I didn’t think that in order for my students to have a quality education, that would mean I would have to use my own money to buy what the school wouldn’t.
I have since become more creative and reduced my out of pocket contribution.

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I definitely wasn't prepared to be sitting in a classroom full of kids on September 11, 2001.

I also wish there had been a class on the politics of local education systems.

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September 11, 2001, was my second day of student teaching. In fact, I was still observing the class (and I would do so for another week before I took over the class). The kids had a study hall at the end of the day that was run by one of the school’s PE teachers. She did an extremely eloquent job explaining what had happened to a class of Grade 6 students. I remember leaving work, going home to eat supper, and at around 7 at night, I cried for a good 30 minutes. After the anthrax scare a few weeks later, one of my students (he happened to be from Morocco) asked me if his father had to be worried about the mail. I said, “Not at all.” I went home that night and cried again.

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I wasn't prepared for the union bullies who only care to pressure people for political action and not actually help classroom teachers.

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Vote for different leadership.

Or run yourself next time a position is open.

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I wasn’t prepared for administrators that continually moved on year after year. Somehow I expected them to make it a career like I chose to do.

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