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Totally agree!! It's like how nurses were called super heroes during the pandemic when really they were completely overworked and underpaid to be doing extremely risky and essential work. Teachers are so underappreciated in this culture that to give us the name "hero" is just insulting
I agree. Often, the same people who label others as "heroes" are the ones who are making the rules, requirements, and guidelines for the ones they're calling heroes. The and thin is that many of those people have never worked in the trenches with the ones they've been setting the rules for.
Oh my goodness yes! Please for the love of all that is good, recognize the difficulties and challenges we face and THEN do something to help! You don't just watch a house burn down... you call for a fire-fighter and support them in their efforts. I don't want to be a selfless hero, I want the community at large to take back the responsibilities they have handed over to us, and to get involved with officials to help make things better for their own children!
I can't see myself as a hero, but I want to be the one constant that my students know they can count on.
Teaching is an important job, an essential job. However, the fact is that we are just a link in a chain or a cog in a gear wheel. We revel in the knowledge that one of our students has succeeded, done something noteworthy, made their community a better place to live in some way. We prefer not to talk about our students who ended up on the wrong side of the law, on drugs, etc. We do our best and we should be proud of that. Everyone thinks they should be paid more than they are. Nobody wants to hear other people complaining that they should be paid more. Remember, in the "good old days" when malaria was the scourge of the country, more people were saved by ditch diggers draining stagnant water away from the cities to prevent the spread of the disease than were saved by doctors treating the ill. Everyone's job has value and purpose.
Oh so true. We often forget about the ones who are digging the trenches. They are the real changers in our world.
I agree with your sentiment! Being told that we are heroes allows us to persevere. We undertake an arduous task, navigating through administrators who sit and devise ways to burden us with additional work in a Title 1 school. Here, we are struggling to rescue and aid children in their learning journey, striving for success despite the academic challenges they face. Furthermore, we deal with parents and their limited support, compounded by the disheartening realization that there are Facebook groups dedicated to critiquing our every action or inaction. Lastly, the little pay we receive. Teaching is indeed a noble yet disheartening profession, especially when one must constantly swim against the current.
I agree, and sometimes that stream we are struggling against is like white rapids. Just as we get used to one thing, here comes another rush of expectations and requirements.
Yes! agree 1000%
i agree lol, i’m just doing my job i chose to do. if im such a “hero” give me livable pay