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OkWatermelonlesson19 t1_j8ddzbf wrote

Not a teacher but a parent. I subbed in schools for 6 years and my mom recently retired from teaching in VT. My stepdad is a teacher, my bio dad and step mother are retired administrators.

My concern is r/teachers. My god. I read some of those posts and the negativity and how they clearly hate their students and I am scared for my daughter and her classmates.

Yes, budget cuts are real and are a concern. Programs are being taken away. My kid is and always has been a middle of the road kid. Not IEP, only on a medical 504, not high honors. She’s honor roll or just below. She’s in the group that all of the programs have been cut from. No more two day field trips to Plimouth. No more salmon swimming. No more ski program. No more enrichment.

So you have budget cuts that bring in teachers who hate teaching and hate the kids and what do you get? Unhappy, under educated students.

My mom said even with her worst behaved students, she tried to find at least one thing to like and connect with them on. What is so hard about that?

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Kyzer t1_j8dn0rp wrote

Your welcome to come and teach. You probably wouldn't last a week. It's NOT the teachers. It's the parents who don't raise their kids properly and expect the school to do it for them.

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OkWatermelonlesson19 t1_j8dsqcq wrote

As I said, I subbed for six years and I loved it. I left because sub pay isn’t sustainable.

Granted, I didn’t have the expectations on me that teachers do, BUT I had to deal with classroom management and some tough kids.

Those people on that sub should not be teaching.

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historycat95 t1_j8efmut wrote

Equating subbing and teaching is a reach.

Subs don't do parent communication, they usually don't prepare lesson plans, they don't do grading, and classroom management is easier when you don't have to go back to those same kids eveey day, every week, every month after you have to confront poor behavior.

So don't judge people who are feeling burned out when they are doing FAR more than any sub and doing it for longer.

You're saying marathon runners shouldn't complain because you did a walk in the park when you wanted to.

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OkWatermelonlesson19 t1_j8ehfia wrote

I didn’t equate them at all. You must have misinterpreted what I wrote. I said exactly the same thing you just did, just in different words. I said I didn’t have the expectations teachers do, you just spelled out this expectations. We’re all on the same side here.

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