Things Non-Teachers Say That Drive Teachers Crazy
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I had one student try to intimidate me once by saying "My Dad pays your salary." I replied, "So he's the one! I've been trying to figure out whose responsible for my low salary!"
Your student sounds like Draco Malfoy.
Hahahaha!!! My kind of teacher! Sarcasm is life!
Your dad? Well, have him send me his address. I'll refund him the nickel.
Self employed don’t you pay taxes I would go around being like self employed
@@sieraperteet3864 I'm not sure how this issue relates to the video or my comment, but if you make enough money self-employed, you are required to pay taxes.
Teachers, first responders, most in the medical profession, all shamefully underpaid, under appreciated. Thank you for your service.
I just want to know why my food when I was in the hospital cost boocoos though. Hospitals are criminally expensive
You could've just left it at teachers.
@@leahmadalyn I could have, but In thinking of how teachers are underpaid and under appreciated, I was reminded of other professionals who suffer the same, so I included them.
Perhaps you’d like to elaborate on your comment?
How can so many professions be underpaid? Maybe the country does not Have as much money as every one thinks.
Teachers are NOT underpaid and they're DEFINITELY not underappreciated. Do you know how many idiotic posts there are like yours falsely claiming that teachers are underpaid and unappreciated. By default, they couldn't possibly be underappreciated when everybody is claiming they're underappreciated 🙄
My best answer to the tax comment? "Well, not only do your tax dollars pay my salary, but MY tax dollars pay my salary! So, how fair is that?"
Best answer I heard on that comment (made by a disgruntled dad who was being a jerk) from a teacher was: "You don't decide which roads get paved either!"
@@waygoblue4729 Perfect answer!!!
I'm a homeschool mom, and that comment even makes me mad. I fully support public school teachers, and not just with my tax dollars. Blows my mind that parents whose children attend public schools want to complain about their tax dollars paying teachers. I don't know how y'all put up with it.
@@cheyennemundy9681 Now im not a american teacher (am a swedish one) but in my case i put up with it by genuinly liking my job and my love of teaching. There is a speciall feeling when you see a student learn and graduate after a few years in school. Obviously in my case i also don´t have to work any job outside of beig a teacher (couse we acctually get paid here in sweden) i do wish more people respected the proffesion itself though. Many people don+´t realise what goes into teaching a class of 20-40 students or for that matter understand that teachers acctually are proffesionals with a lot of education behind their backs. So thanks for supporting us.
I'm a VA nurse and people occasionally pull that with me and my colleagues, especially our VA police who get to see the worst of our generally amazing patient population
People who were crappy students always think being a teacher is easy.
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You are right, to those people I say to try running over in a playground after you where in bed with Covid, and a long hauler, paper work, work development hours (in your off time) and having to remind parents all the time to bring clothes for their children now that we are potty training. not including we are nurses, referees, janitors etc. after i get home i just want to take a glass of wine and pass out, but i cant because i have to make sticky notes on my laptop to remind me what to say to the parents the next day (covid fog memory).
Very true. The stupid comments are almost always from people who work hourly jobs and don't understand the concept of a salaried position. Like yes, there is contract time, but I could never do my job and not get fired without working beyond 3p on most days.
Facts!
well that is very often people who got grades way higher than what they deserved, so they would pass the class. so they skimmed through school easily and believe everyone else's experience in that same room is the same. That was and still is my impression of about90% of these cases. Both from being a kid to a tacher and from being a student (with a bit different view on what teachers go through)...
(also i guess in the US its not very often, but) in my country teachers - organized in the entire country strike multiple times in a year (may be for a day or two or way longer, usually short strikes, even though they dont win a thing unfortunately) and every time i heard students tell a teacher "why arent you on strike like the rest, we want to go for coffee or shopping" i saw red. (even though i may not agree with the choice to not strike in some occasions, because its taking off power from the negotiationgs) its not your f***ing job to tell the teacher to miss part of their paycheck so you can go to the mall...
I’m not a teacher but I honestly believe teachers deserve to get paid more.
NO, no they don't. Schools need to be more responsible, but you are looking at our tax payer's money.
I think all parents should home school, get rid of public schools. Or Teachers just find other jobs. Shut this government system down.
People were loving us the first phase of the pandemic when they saw what home schooling was like. I garrentee this will all be forgotten when school picks up. We really don't value education in this country.
My district saw a massive decline in enrollment for next year. Thousands of families realized how little their children were learning and have moved to online charters, private schools and homeschooling.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to my sons reading and math improved drastically when I started homeschooling. His teacher was awful! He went from loving school to hating it and his teacher with our move. He was also bullied so bad at school. The teacher and school did nothing. The teacher called me to complain because my son thought his life was treated and stopped someone hurting him. He got in as much trouble as his bully. I don’t regret homeschooling in any way! I was appalled at the teacher and school. My son was only five at the time before then loved learning and school. Now he’s homeschooled and loves learning again.
I prefer that teachers can spell "guarantee". Yes, we do value education.
They got to see what we REALLY do!!!!!!
@@alyupde9337 🤣 or he listens to his parents and not other adults
When people say " how come he/she didn't break up the fight."
um.... because teachers don't go to college to become referees. Teachers are teachers, not referees.
Teachers also probably do not have that training. They legally can't break up that fight
I was taught in my training that I'm not allowed to get in between students in a fight because it could endanger myself and to wait until the school guards or police are called to handle it.
In five years teaching in Sweden and ten in Korea, the other kids would break up the fight, and I never saw a fight that drew blood. School violence is awful in the US.
Happened to me my first year a couple months ago. 5 girls total.
I wasn’t about to break it up. I wasn’t given the proper training on how to handle it and neither was that a part of my job description when signing my contract.
When I was in school teachers and administrators did break up fights. We had a lot more respect for them for it.
I love your responses to what they’re saying about the whole tax dollars paying our salary thing, but the real problem with that whole train of thought is the fact the teachers are tax paying citizens as well. So according to their logic we are all actually just self-employed
Good point 👍
Excellent 👏👏👏👏
Teachers should ask for refund
I've heard this from administrators, my dad, and a friend of mine (who is also an administrator): if you are having discipline issues, or if you have to send a kid to the office, it's because you're doing something wrong as a teacher. As my dad tells me, 'You need to learn how to reach your students, communicate with them, and then they'll respect you and learn'. Well, I just don't think it's that simple. I've had students who simply do not belong in a regular classroom and who need something more along the lines of reform school.
Right, because kids are robots and do exactly what they are told at all times without ever having an independent thought. Gee, I wonder where the kids get the attitude from... (And I'm not even a teacher.) :)
Sounds like those admin. haven't been in a classroom for awhile. It would be great to switch places and let them feel what it's like to be cussed out by a kid and then told its your fault for sloppy classroom management 🤬
And everything is teacher's fault..... It's never the students..... Never.... I mean we can't even give them maths homework more than 5 sums a day.... They aren't even doing any practice the whole year and when the results are bad then it's the teachers fault.
@@saralaughin9637 Sara this past year was my first year teaching and I’ve been cussed out twice! I teach 9th grade.
It is that simple. There may be a few outliers but 99% of kids will behave if you’re a good teacher. Problem is every teacher thinks they’re a good teacher and only 1% of you actually are.
Used to be a teacher…quit because I worked 80+ hours a week. This couldn’t be more true.
I totally understand but I just hurts me to see all the good ones quitting. You deserved better
@@Mama_Bear524 thank you! ❤️ It was really hard to quit.
I’m so sorry-they should treat you guys like kings and queens in the teaching profession.
@@valorandstrength2829 thank you! ❤️
Still am. Still do.
My mom was a special education teacher for 28 years. She was the only one in it for the kids....administration🙄 is why she decided to retire. She could handle the parents, it was the people that didn't ever teach that were part of the system, not supporting the teachers that inspired her to retire.
It’s sad that the people in charge have never taught or does not much experience or taught high and trying to boss elementary teachers. The worst is the bosses with a power trip. They give you more work than you can do. It gets done at the expense of your family, your health, and your life ughugh. I’ve been lucky only had two like this. I’m far enough in it if I get another I’m out the door.
Hallelujah!!! No one is lasting that long anymore.
@@Dumbpenguin1 I’m out. After COVID-19 next school year will be a nightmare
@@l.a.w.79 super early in her career she worked at a "prison" type school. Like the state sent them there after they committed a crime. She lasted maybe 6 years but the burn out rate was 3.
@@Dumbpenguin1 not all of them of course but A LOT of them, in her school, had never taught.
My favorite one this year, I actually had a child of God tell me, “ I don’t understand why you’re so tired the only thing yall doing is working online” 🤣🤣🤣 sometimes you got to laugh in order to keep from using your potty mouth
Sorry you had that experience but not all of us Christians are like that. God made us for a purpose and He is the author of it. I hope you know that God isn't like people, He won't condemn you for coming to Him in faith, He won't insult you if you mess up, He won't push you away if you come to Him to talk to Him in prayer time, He won't cast you away if you need His help, He is trustworthy and never failing. He will carry your burdens and give you rest. He will be with you and won't let you go , when you hold unto His hand He will guide you an keep you in His truth. He will give you His salvation when you seek Him, Sin destroys but God gives life. Because God loves us, He sent His only son Jesus to rescue us from our sins. The Bible says that “God shows his love for us in that while we were sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). Jesus lived a perfect life, died on the cross as payment for our sins, was buried, and rose again from the dead. His resurrection proves that God has accepted Jesus’ sacrifice for our sins. Believe in Him and the Holy Spirit will come in and lead you to go to Jesus in faith and trust in Him and trust in Him for salvation and repent of your sins and He will hear from Heaven and forgive you of your sins and cleanse you by His precious blood and the Holy Spirit will make you born again. (Romans 5,6,7,8, John 3:16, 1 John 1:9). God bless and I'll be praying for you 🙏🏽
I hate when ppl say that type of thing abt teachers. They worked so DAMN hard this year, the good ones ALWAYS work hard, and they’re so under appreciated!
Teaching via computer is so draining. It's like all the grunt work of teaching without the interaction with students that makes it worthwhile.
@@jesusfollowerswomenministries I could say the same thing about my dog. 🤣🤣🤣
Ex teacher here (yes ex and not former … it was definitely a breakup in 2019 after 18 years in special ed. It started really passionately, had a really- well mostly- steady stable relationship, but ended with too many years of ups and downs, a lack of respect, plus physical abuse.)
LOVE “You know when you’re a kid and you fall down on the trampoline and everybody keeps jumping while you’re trying to get up? That’s what the teaching profession is like.)
Looking forward to my new career in tech where I won’t likely get assaulted at work. I’ll be involved in making sure apps and sites are accessible and beautiful. A lovely new relationship.
I can’t imagine what my mental (and physical) health would have been like if I stayed in one more year - which would have been 2020 …
Hello how are you doing 👋👋😀😀
Good luck with the new career!
Hopefully, I'll break up with teaching too.
I love your trampoline example. Ex teacher here. They broke me, or should I say my breakup (?) was in September 2019 after 20 years. Those most critical about teachers wouldn’t last a week in a classroom let alone years and years like we did. 😊
I almost choked from laughing, especially the one about them leaving at 3 o'clock every day.... My sister in law is a teacher and she has 12 hour days. 8 to 10 hour at school and at least 2 hours at home . Always. She isnt the only one. I know many teachers that take work home. Teachers are the most underrated, underpaid, and un- appreciated bunch. But with out them you'd be doing home schooling.
Yep Im in NZ and most teachers I know are on their laptops until 11 at night then at school by 7-30 for a 9 AM start.
Thank you!
@@susanjacomb9614 Yeah, and then on top of that, what is this new B.S. about parents having the teachers' home phone numbers? No, no, no. You need to speak with the teacher, get off your lazy behinds and attend parent-teacher meetings. When the teacher leaves the school, they are on their own time - ABSOLUTELY NO PARENT PHONECALLS AND/OR PARENT HARRASSING.
Yep, I would leave at around 5pm and go home and work, plan and grade tests til 12am then go to bed and do it agains.
You forgot to add: Being the SCAPEGOATS for bad curriculum, bad parenting, bad policies and bad administration
Tell it sister. I had a parent tell me “when my son is in school he’s your problem.”
Same! rant time: I had a child with episodes of verbal and physical rage, coupled with social anxiety and more. After months of trying to get him help from the district, I called a conference with the father, during which I tried to convince him to ALLOW his child to get FREE support at school. And the father goes: "he/she don't need extra anything. In or out of school. I send him to you to get educated, so you do your job and "teach" those issues out of him".
I had a parent once was furious that her child was sent to the principal for cursing. She stated that he should be allowed to cuss, because it’s “part of their culture.”
@@MusicRulesMyHeart I'd be like.. Look here, my job is to teach the subject matter (idk what your license is in but fill in as needed) your job as a PARENT is to teach your little Bebe's kid not to be thuggin it up.
🤨 This is what I call lazy parenting. These students suffer and lash out at other students & teachers. What the parent is doing or not doing isn't working. How can a teacher teach when a child enter the classroom with a burden of issues. Most kids are crying out for help....this is why parents & teachers should work together.
@@MusicRulesMyHeart oh dear lord
Thank you too all the amazing teachers choosing to teach children even though there are a lot of downs.
this is the truthhh!!!! i spend several school nights lesson planning but i don’t get overtime for it.
and weekends, holidays....
Even when we are online on CZcams watching videos. Lots of them about education, tools, new stuff etc.
… don’t forget all the hours of grading, as well.
Most professional people put in alot of overtime. I spent 60 to 80 hours in a typical week. The only folks working 40 hrs are hourly employees.
@@drperkins6668 That’s true, a lot of professions do work long hours with overtime; however, they at least get a lunch hour every day & overtime pay.
This is so so true! Don’t forget that in our “two month paid vacation” we are also recuperating from all of the sleep we lost during the school year because it was hard to stop thinking of all the things that had to be done. You don’t realize how tired you are until you have a stretch of time off. Summer school hadn’t even ended and we got an email about tutorials that needed to be done for the fall. So happy I retired at the end of this school year.
That 2 month paid vacation is actually 3 months of unemployment that you cannot collect unemployment benefits for. If a teacher gets paid over the summer, it is because their 9 months of pay was spread out over 12 months. Teachers in my district get to pick whether to be paid the full amount every month or a reduced amount. If a teacher earned $1000 a month, they would either get $1000 per month for 9 months and nothing for 3 months or they could get $750 per month for 12 months. The teacher does not get paid for those 3 months. If they choose to have their checks spread over 12 months, they don't get any interest on the $250 per month that they are delaying. As teachers are so disgustingly overpaid (at least in the US), even the small amount of interest on that money is important.
Hi Elizabeth,
Ditto about retiring. I just retired at age 70 on June 2, 2022. Elizabeth Clark ( I agree with everything that you wrote.)
I also know that many teachers use the summer time to go back to school themselves to upgrade, learn new ways of doing things, etc. And often on their own dime. God's blessings to school teachers. They need more support from admin, school boards and parents have to quit bothering them. If these parents think that THEY know better how to school their kids, then why don't they become teachers themselves.
@@robertkartechner5850 Yep, and those classes are required so teachers can keep teaching - to get their teaching certificate renewed. And they have to pay for that privilege. Many times traveling out of town to get classes in their subject (think: specialists, for example). Eye-watering tuition, supplies cost, food, gas and on an on.
When parents say: you're a glorified babysitter...
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Have you seen the math about how we’d get paid if we got a babysitter’s rate?
@@ellengalbavy538 Good point. Plus, the fact that kids are seeing the math every day (and history, reading, writing, etc.) is more than enough to show how teachers are way more than babysitters.
I literally just talked about this!
You are. We left the school system and my kid now does 7 hours of work in 1-2 hours and learns way more than he ever did under the guidance of a “teacher.” You’re just there to provide daycare and train children how to be the next generation of slave labor.
I wish that teachers would be paid more so the amazing ones stay longer. It's not fair that these teachers keep getting their wages cut when they are giving such an invaluable service. There are teachers that are so good that they change your life and they are the ones we need to keep.
They unionized. If they want to award better teachers they will need either a different kind of union or to dissolve the union.
@@drperkins6668 I think a different kind of union if I'm honest. The unions should be there to protect unfair pay but they should be setting minimums and helping employees get the best contracts
Unions are the issue. They make it impossible to fire teachers.
My mom works on IEP's lesson plans and everything until about 2 am and when she had Covid she worked late to make plans the sub didn't even use
I worked remotely and had a mild case of covid, but long haulers effect have been brutal. If it is one thing that should be realized by everyone during this pandemic is most adminiatrators/ supervisors are the ones who are redundant and overpaid. As for parents, the pandora box FLEW OPEN and the TRUTH came out! Students who live and die on social media all became tech illiterate and "remote instruction does not work"... well wake up DELTA is moving quickly folks!
😢 feel bad for your mom's effort going unrecognized. 😣
Bless your mother for paying attention to IEPs and making sure kids actually get the help they need. Far too many teachers don't.
I have a reading workbook, writing workbook, and math workbook for each kid on an IEP. These are at each kid's individual level. This is my emergency plan. Reading is from Explode the Code, Writing is a Scholastic product, and Math is The Triumph Series. I train the kids for one day each month to work in them. If I ever have an emergency, this is what they do with the sub. Last year I got cancer and missed 6 weeks of school. This system saved me. And any sub can supervise workbooks easily. My plans are easy to write. I set a number of pages per student per day. They finish early? They can do more pages, pick a book to read, etc. In this day of no subs available, they can even stay in their general education class and do the workbooks. I quit writing detailed sub plans because subs won't use them or school can't get a sub. Teachers must stop being martyrs! It serves no purpose. Set it up for autopilot when you have an emergency.
Without even watching, I was thinking “so it’s nice you get the summer off”. Here I am 1 week of summer done and already working on next year prep and budget.
You sound like a whiny child.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to 🙄🙄🙄
Your better than me. I wanna be like you when I grow up.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to Mr. LastName, no name calling or it is a call home.
No but really, you sound like a professional I could learn a lot from. 3rd year and my planning is shi.. could be better. Got bomb ideas, though🥴🤪
For the tax comment, I tell people: "Let's break down what you pay in taxes, what percentage of that goes to education, and how much of that pays my salary. Most people pay taxes. You aren't entitled to act like a rich kid stereotype because of it." How ridiculous.
I work at least one day a weekend during the school year and several late week nights. People ask , “Why do you do that?”
I tell them, “The magic doesn’t happen by itself.”
When some people found out I was a teacher, they’d tell me how they might have considered teaching if they weren’t already doing a much more important “real” job. And then the ones who would get a guest lecture job- no lesson plans, no homework, no class discussions, no essays to grade- just them talking for a few hours, but this experience was profound enough that they felt moved to tell me how to do my job. Sheesh!
You know if teachers choose to be teachers and get paid crap, there will be time noone will become a teacher and people will complain about that
Already happening
When teachers start teaching rather than just train kids to be compliant labor people will support you getting paid more. You get paid what you’re worth.
That time is now.
The problem is the bureaucracy. Teachers aren’t allowed to teach. My district required all Kindergartens to remove all dramatic play and cancel recess to leave more time for the kill and drill. Luckily I had an amazing principal back me up and we defied the district but most principals won’t.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to a lot of curriculum is dictated by school boards and government
Hahahahaha, oh my gosh I can’t even! Favorite lines: “When you fall down and everybody just keeps jumping and you can’t get back up” nailed it. “Please don’t…that’s gross”, 10 mos. stretched out over 12, great way to explain it.
Don’t forget the parents that want to tell you how to do your (teaching) job; yet, they’d be incensed if you were to tell them how to do theirs. 🤔🤷🏼♀️
As the daughter of a single mother who was a teacher (she finally got to retire in May!) and a past preschool teacher/elementary school TA who was going to school to be a teacher, pre-life...this is so true! I am a homeschool mom now and I get tired of being told similar things about being home with my kids all day, every day. Its rewarding, but man. Raising and teaching little people (and little people in bigger bodies) is hard work.
As a high school teacher in Canada, this absolutely resonated with me SOOOO MUCH!!! Getting off work at 3? Summers off? Glorified babysitter? 🤣🤣🤣 Yeah, right!! Bahahahahaha!!
I’m a retired nurse who was working in post anesthesia care and I had a friend say oh that sounds easy you just watch people sleep!!!!😳wow I had my doubts about her intelligence but then that sealed the deal .
2 month "paid vacation". Growing up teachers worked in the summer. One teacher painted & hung wallpaper & a few were crew bosses for detasseling corn. Granted, this was a "few" years ago, but it doesn't sound like things have changed that much.
Teachers should be highly paid to attract the very best and brightest to one of the most important professions in our society.
What am I doing this summer “off”? Dog sitting during the day, and hotel laundry at night, so I don’t starve to death. You’re welcome.
Those are your choices. Get over yourself.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to Why so much hate?
@@KBol-tm1vd Telling an adult to grow up and stop acting like the children they teach isn’t hate. It’s the harsh truth. You aren’t special. We all deal with these problems.
I never said grow up. I simply asked why the hate. Your response seems emotionally charged. That is why I asked. What fuels your original response?
@@KBol-tm1vd I said to grow up. Not an emotional response. Just telling it like it is. The complaining on this channel is pretty unbelievable. As if the rest of us adults don’t also deal with similar and much harder schedules and work environments for less pay. If you think my response was emotionally charged or hateful it’s because you’re incapable of having a non emotional discussion and most likely very easily offended (ie highly self focused).
I fully endorse this video as a teacher. It's speaks truth!!
Maaaaaaannnnnnnn….!!! This made me mad ALL OVER again!!!! We are so unappreciated 😠
I've been out of the classroom since 2007 and I still get mad when I hear these comments.
When I was a teacher, I'd regularly work until 7pm on lesson plans, prep for the next day, grading assignments, even researching how to help specific students with their issues.
And the summer off thing... My mom is a teacher and I don't even try to talk to her for the first couple of weeks after school is out because she's too busy at school. Same for 2-3 weeks before school starts.
I took 8 online classes this summer. Not to get a pay raise, but to fulfill the mandatory EL credits the DOE is requiring of all teachers. We have to find the courses ourselves, take them on our own time, and pay for them. Not much "time off."
That's not different than what a lot of non-educator people do. And we get to take PTO for any class we want to take during tradition work hours. I'm it saying it doesn't suck ... It does. But it's not listed to teachers.
Totally insane and the districts received so much money from the federal, state and local government, smh!
My school system covers classes, so that is dependent upon your district. People definitely forget that summer may still involve work for many teachers, either through 2nd jobs or classes (or both).
@@M-hc9xm The problem is that teachers have professional jobs that require a ton of education, but their salaries do not really match that. My district does cover classes, so that varies, but if a district does not, it's really crappy for a teacher who is only making about $45k a year (more or less depending on your area).
@@KatieBellino that is not unique to teachers. I am sure that their are several parents for each classroom in the same situation. It is naive to think it only applies to teachers.
I had 125 teenagers everyday! Imagine if each student asked just one question. LOL. And I love the one "You get off at 3pm, not if you do the school yearbook and school newspaper." Events go on 24/7 at high schools. I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. Keep them coming.
Hello how are you doing 👋😀👋👋
@@pollackmorgan3149 enjoying retirement. miss my students. Hope UR doing well
When people say you must have the patience of a saint and you awkwardly avoid telling them you want to slap their kid when they bite you five times a day
I always just LOVED it when someone said, "What do you do all summer? Aren't you bored?"
I am a recently retired teacher. I taught English as a Second Language in an inner city public high school. Your comments are spot on!
Hello how are you doing 👋👋😀☺️😀
Congratulations, you survived and made it. Enjoy every minute of it!
OMG so true!!! My favorite is if I complain I should quit. Um, no. This is my calling, but even crowns get heavy sometimes!!!
Im a student and i do my best to defend my teachers when my parents say something like “teachers jobs are so easy and have so much free time”. Cause thats not true, teachers spend a lot of time making lesson plans, teaching, homework and doing their best to keep students who couldnt care less engaged in what their learning and making it fun and doing extra things. Also high schoolers and middle schoolers are not easy to deal with and the class room is in constant chaos. I know my parents appreciate teachers A LOT but sometimes little comments like that come out and I like to address them. Also I appreciate teachers a lot too!! Thank you so much for what you do especially when things get super hard!
OMG I am so sorry for teachers low pay, bi respect from kids, families, and boss at time. Thank you so much teachers for all you do for our future generations 💖
I love the first Monday of summer when all the parents flood social media to complain about their kids and beg for school to start up again while I'm packing for Hawaii like ✌
Paid vacation! We all go into school during that vacation and prep for next year.
My friends who's a teacher lives this sadly and it makes you thankful for your own teachers
Things non-teachers say that drive teachers crazy: Literally everything to do with my job. If you haven't taught in a classroom in the last 5 years, you are not welcome to talk to me about ANYTHING to do with my job lol
I did do your job to help the local schools out when they could not find qualified teachers. I found the kids very nice, most of the parents supportive, and the support people very helpful. Then I tutored free of charge any student who asked for help. All while working my full time job and a second job and taking classes to get certified. Sorry but I thought it was fun for the most part.
@@drperkins6668 You are acting like you have no clue what teachers are referring to when they go over the common complaints. I know you know exactly what they’re talking about. Why are you minimizing the issues instead of wanting them to be fixed? What are you trying to prove?
@@nonyab5640 I have been in many types of jobs including in elementary, middle and high school. I have worked for government labs, I was a full professor at a major university. I ran my own company. I succeeded at all these tasks except 6th grade lower level mathematics.
I found k-12 teaching to be a much easier job than any of the others I mentioned except government lab where folks had very secure jobs and funding.
Btw I never pretend at anything.
There are only two complains that teachers make that in my experience i found justified.
1) badly behaved students are no longer properly disciplined and that is only going to get much worse.
2l individual education plans in a class with a mixture of special needs and regular students fails to teach almost anyone in the entire class.
If teachers were complaining about these systemic issues in education today I would be supporting them. Instead they complain about pay when their pay lines up with the sophistication of their education (education is ranked the 4th or 5th easiest major at a university and their students have one of the lowest sat scores). Compared to most other countries their pay ranks quite high. Only Asian countries where the academic credentials of the students studying education are close to the top as a group of countries pays significantly more.
Instead the complain about things like having to work overtime... in any job where you have the final responsibility you are going to be working overtime and if you're salaried it will be unpaid.
In summary I find their complaints petty and unprofessional. If the complaints were on the higher level of fighting the current insane educational administration requirements, fighting for technical details of teaching, rejecting their unions political (read the Los Angeles teachers unions demands before they come back from covid and tell me that the unions have a clear understanding of how most Americans define public education), then I would be backing them 100%.
Let me continue. How many teachers are studying the US government reports on the state of education in the US? Do you know where the US stands wrt other countries? Do you know that since our educational system got rid of tracking students that virtually all replacement proposals have some form of tracking implicitly embedded within them? Do you know that schools change directions every time a new approach becomes available without waiting for long term data that demonstrates its a step forward? Did you know they embrace evidence based methodologies without understanding the statistical concepts necessary to critique the results?
Did you know that I passed the teacher proficiency test without studying? Did you know that not one class I took for my mathematics education degree was as difficult as trigonometry? Did you know that if you list the easiest college majors they correlate strongly with salary including teachers? Have you performed such a study? Of course you have not.
Is your job difficult? Of course it is? Is it as difficult as a police or fire safety job? Absolutely not. Is it as difficult as an airplane mechanics job? No. Is it as difficult as my job was (university professor)? There was no comparison for me. K-12 was a trivial task compared to what I had to do in terms of teaching and research at a large public university? How many times have you stayed up all night working on your job since you started teaching? When my son was born I stayed awake between his 1am and 4am feedings just to get a journal article revision completed in a timely manner. I did that for about 6 months.
Am I making my point? If this is not clear enough, please specify the areas you disagree with specifically.
@@drperkins6668 Okay Imma say everything you said was a lie just based off of your "you know that not one class I took for my mathematics education degree was as difficult as trigonometry?" I'm a math ed ,masters candidate. To be a licensed teacher you need at the VERY LEAST Calc 2. Since trig is required for pre calc, and precalc is required for calc and calc is required for calc 2, imma say either A: You're lying, B: You just suck at trig so it was harder for you, which is fair but don't act like that's the standard response, or C: You are from bama.
Preaching to the choir!
After teaching for 39 years - ALL in schools where students had complex behavioural & academic needs - I retired. Yet after two & a half years, I STILL have dreams/nightmares about school! It is with you for life.....😱 but, at least I don’t to get up with an alarm! 🥳
The biggest comment I ever received was about having summers off. Firs the first few years I had no pay during the summers. Then when I switched to a different school I was paid through the summer-stretched that paycheck out! All while going and tearing the room apart and putting it back together for the floor cleaning, getting ready for the next school year. All the fun things!
It's the last comment for me!!!! Stated so perfectly! People often misunderstand the "Summer Break". Then when I explain this to them they're shocked! Plus some people truly don't realized that our job is both inside AND OUTSIDE the classroom. Thanks for the vid sis!
After teaching for 38 years, this totally hit home! I've probably heard every comment you said. I loved this! 💕💕💕
YESSS! This is what every single teacher thinks and doesn't always say. Thank you!!!!!
Reasons why I decided to back out of becoming a teacher. It's not always the kids, it's mostly the parents who act so entitled then pass it on to their kids. I was just a playground/lunchroom aide and a 5th grader instigated a fight while screaming "F yeah! Get em!" at another kid. He threatened to get me fired for writing him up because his mom is on the school board. This kid has a smartphone and came from an inner city school and had the audacity to say that he's a Mormon and he doesn't know what cursing is...
A friend of mine who is a teacher got told to go back to China. I just can't with this society.
I love how once things even start to go back to normal they want us to forget how essential we are!
And everybody just keeps jumpin.. YAS
I laughed so hard 😂
Also during the two months off class teachers are getting their dental work, eye exam, medical exam and treatments, surgeries that they have postponed until summer so they would not miss school.
That’s ridiculous. Most of those things can be done on Saturdays. You know the rest of us also have these problems but don’t get a summer off, right?
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to You're kidding, right? I can't get any of those things done on a Saturday. And were you listening at all? Teachers do not get "summers off." A teacher can elect (or not) to have his or her yearly salary divided by 12 instead of 10 but are only actually paid for 10 months. Also, throughout my teaching career, I taught summer school with only one exception and that was after my first year of teaching. I was indescribably exhausted (even though I was only 22 years old at the time) and I needed that summer to recover. After that, I couldn't afford not to teach summer school.
@@Ellie49 The rest of us work all year long and many of us for way less money and no PTO. You sound childish.
And this is the reason I am happy to add the word "retired" in front of teacher! I was a high school chemistry teacher for 25 years and retired this past August. The first day of school came and went without me there and I have to say I felt a little sad until I heard about the PD they were doing!! Don't miss a minute (but I do miss the kids!)
Retired English teacher here.
I feel the same way!
Ditto!
Another drink?... How about the check? 🙂
I always have had respect for what teachers do (plus marking assignments as a TA in uni gave me a full appreciation of the amount of unpaid overtime teachers end up doing). But even then, I have to say, watching my son's SK teacher dealing with 27 kids online during school shutdowns during the pandemic gave me a whole new appreciation of what teachers put up with on the regular and how they deal. I feel like I learned a few things about how teachers get small, excitable and talkative children to sit down and listen without completely shutting them down and making them feel bad, and am trying to apply that to dealing with my one kid. Kudos to all the teachers out there. You deserve way more respect from politicians, the Ministry of Education, parents and the general public than you get.
I love this! I was a Early Childhood Educator many years ago with 4 year olds. I loved them and taught them all I could. When they got into Junior Kindergarten the teacher said they were restless...that was because they already knew how to write their names, read some and other things I taught them that the kids who hadn't been to daycare/nursery school hadn't learned at home.
I was married which was good because the single women teachers lived at home...nobody could afford an apartment on what we made.
I used to stop at the library on my way home to pick up more books for my kids, then head home to make a flannel board or cut out figures or gather supplies, for a lesson/game I was going to give them the next day. I loved it but I'm glad I was in my 20's...it was exhausting...and I worked 12 months of the year.
A lot of folks should watch this! You go girl.
Hello how are you doing 👋😀👋👋
Yes to all! You didn't even open the can of worms that is essential standards, testing, meetings with colleagues to discuss services like ELL, IEP, Reading and Math interventions, behaviors, PBIS, grading assignments, planning for differentiated instruction, sub plans, teaching and managing organization routines, enforcing school expectations, creating a classroom community, and trying, and failing to please everyone (admin, parents, students, etc.)
I had a family member make some of the same comments to me. Early on in my teaching career, I would stay at school most nights until 9 p.m. and sometimes until midnight on the weekends. My husband would come into class with me and watch movies or help me while I worked. Today, I try not to put in more than 10 hours a day. Hearing people especially family members tell me I make good money and have great benefits with awesome vacation time for what I do is insulting. However, I bite my tongue! One thing that is true, I became a teacher because I felt it was my calling to mold the minds of our children and to be a positive role model in their lives. Thanks for this video!
I so wish I worked with you before I retired! You're a hoot, and you certainly say everything I would've liked to say..whether it was to kids, admin or parents. Love you, and Stay safe!
Me too!! You GO gf!
Omg!!! Thank you 😊. I left teaching for all those reasons! Laughing because I was asked all those questions or listened to all those ignorant statements! Thank you for this and thank you for being a teacher!😊❤️
I got my teacher a big box of assorted Keurig coffee for Christmas and I honestly thought she was going to cry.
YEP!!!!! SHE IS ON POINT!!!!!!! ABSOLUTELY CORRECT IN EVERY SCENE!!!
Nailed it!
God I hate when people say “nobody Forced you to do *insert job here*” like Christ someone has to do that job
Someone does, but it doesn’t have to be you, and if no one is willing to work they have to change something to entice employees. There’s a reason dangerous jobs pay more.
I taught high school English for 20 years in a public school in NC. It required working a second job most of that time to make rent and car payments, etc., a job which kept me up til midnight several nights a week. Teaching difficult students at the alternative school all day, grading and preparing tests and planning all evenings and most of the weekend, plus a second job was brutal. People don't realize what it's like trying to educate, manage, and emotionally uphold over 130 distressed teens daily, dealing also with their entitled and verbally abusive parents (many parents today are not like parents of earlier generations!), and deal with administrators issuing insane edicts such as, "You cannot send students to the restroom during class." Never mind that their parents could sue us personally for that. Never mind the students only had three minutes to change classes and one toilet for the entire floor of classrooms. Stress like a pressure cooker was continuous.
Teaching English in particular required grading piles of papers and prepping nightly, eating up all my evening time and most of my weekend time because I refused to cut corners on the quality of education my "kids" would receive (by showing movies routinely, for example). Consequently, I had no time to unwind or spend with friends, no time for fun or hobbies. In return for total dedication, what did I make? I calculated one time how much I was actually being paid in Forsyth County, NC, for the hours I actually spent. It came out to less than minimum wage, which at that time was less than $8 per hour there. I had a B.A. plus graduate work from a respected university. Wages are not commensurate with education in most public schools, not remotely. At the very least I shouldn't have had to work a second job.
The stress of teaching well in itself in the insane pressure cooker of the public schools was more than most adults would be willing to endure. (I won't even go into all that. People keep telling me to write a book... maybe someday I will if it won't evoke P.T.S.D.) At the very least, I will state here: teachers are not being paid fairly in all schools. And being laid off for two months every year is not a vacation. Nobody wants to hire you for just two months, either.
I would like to say that teachers do complain a lot but that doesn't necessarily mean they aren't doing their job. It just means their is a lot to gripe about.
I think in fondness of many of my teachers. As a secretary, I probably make less than most teachers in this area. I don't think all are underpaid, but definitely under supported and under appreciated by the parents and administration and community. It is time to stop expecting teachers to do the jobs of parents, social workers, and teachers -- parents school your children to be respectful of teachers. Too often, when there is a problem in the classroom, parents blame teachers (in front of their children) rather than having the teachers' backs.
1:50 the lights in her eyes look like hearts
My mom’s favorite was “summers off” which I loved because then she was with us! Yes her pay reflected those “paid summers”
🤣 I have heard every single one of these repeatedly and never know how to respond; thank you! This is perfection! One time a wealthy couple told me how great it was that I was willing to starve for my art. I was clearly supposed to thank them.
There is SO MUCH you have to justify when teaching. Even as an ECE (daycare) you have to explain how each activity is building on a previous activity and how it leads into other things you have done. I applaud the people that are still choosing to go into teaching and the ones that are currently there. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO FOR OUR CHILDREN.
Asked my son's fantastic preschool teacher if we missed anything when he was absent for a day. She launched into explanation about the activity etc. What I should have said was Does he need to bring a snack or anything? When she walked down the line and greeted the kids in the morning it was valuable! Everything she did was valuable! Thank you, Mrs. Bellhorn!
Yeah.....i hate the “play with kids” line
As a preschool educator I get this. Yes it’s not elementary or high school but we actually teach. Or called a daycare educator. It’s not daycare there’s a difference
@@Mama_Bear524 Agreed! I just retired from teaching kindergarten for 30 years!
@@melissawittman It takes a special kind of heroism to teach kindergarten for 30 years. All those kids are now better of because of the work you have done.
As a nurse...I completely get the " I pay your wages"... Been there done that
I love your videos! I've been a school and daycare teacher for a long time. I've worked with kids ages 2 weeks old to 15 years old and you are right about all of it. I recently had a mom of a 3 year old boy tell me "Well, you only have to watch 11 kids for 8 hours of the day, how is it you haven't been able to teach my son NOT to throw the wooden blocks at a person's head? Why are you the most incompetent teacher at this daycare?" I really wanted to say " Get your BeBe kid and leave. Now. And don't come back until YOU are a more competent parent."
Wow! That's HER job!
I love the teacher that has a sparkle in their eye, one that has so much exciting information to share! Kids sit on the edges of their chairs to hear EVERYTHING being said. In those classes the subjects are well rounded and even realistic, and there are no problems with the kids absorbing the subjects at hand. Teachers excited about teaching are worth more than they can ever be paid and the children they teach will NEVER forget them. Gifted teachers are hard to find, but once they are found they should be pampered the rest of their lives. That is my opinion about most of the teachers I had. Those teachers wanted to be there and it showed.
This is still the case at many schools. But the federal guidelines for discipline will destroy those schools as well.
It seems the system is set on destroying the teacher’s love for teaching, though
@@ludmilamaiolini6811 It certainly seems this way sometimes.😔
I always wonder how some teachers ended up in my school which is an absolute shit show. These teachers were engineers, scientists, fashion designers, worked in Posh schools, book writers, programmers and ended up in a school in a place which translates into "plaque pit."
Props to them cause I have no idea why and how they did it.
Because my friend in life you can make all the right decisions and still get a wrong answer.
Some people just really like teaching - you can tell by how they work with kids. I once knew a teacher who loved working with kids but quit because he hated the admin so much more.
@@sanjaysivakumar9575 that would make sense but alot of the teachers in my secondary school despise us. They do have their favourites but to the rest they're not as friendly.
Home Healthcare Worker here. I have had the same phrase said to me quite frequently since I started working in this field almost 10 years ago. "You should come over and clean my house." This from people who are not in need of the services I provide. They say it jokingly after hearing what I do for a living, and I politely smile and laugh with them, but inside it burns me up. Every. Single. Time.
I love this lady.
You hit everything! Absolutely well stated.
The lack of GOOD pay is what did it for me.
I like how she says “everybody”.
Probably has perfected the word after saying it so much. “Everybody sit down and be quiet!” x10000
My mom was a teacher and she would come home and start working on future lesson plans. And when she wasn't working at school in the summer she would do summer daycare at our home. She was always working or going to school for her own required continuing education.
Love your videos! I taught adults but can still relate to a lot of what you post. Makes me chuckle. Well, except the paid for 10 months bit. That’s just plain horrible.
"You all knew what you were getting into when you decided to become teachers."
"Good point. So what you're is that if we want to be paid in a way that reflects our education and skill level then we should just leave teaching and find another job that pays better. Sounds like a great idea! Wait a minute, who does that leave teaching your children? Oh yeah, those that had to settle for this job because there is absolutely nothing else that they are capable of doing. But of course you're completely fine with that, right?"
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The best way to sum it up. Sad, truth!!
Omg you have put things into a perspective that I wish all people fully understood.
Well done! Unfortunately extremely accurate: I've heard every one of these "lighthearted" comments from parents. You nailed it!
(Edit: by lighthearted I mean passive-aggressive.)
🤣🤣🤣 Excellent video ❤️! My sister actually is a teacher and I’ve heard pretty much all of this from her! Much respect for ALL teachers🙏🏿!
I personally think ALL teachers are saints. God bless you for all the hard work you do for kids!
Every break we had, I took classes toward my master's and toward further certification. I worked side jobs all the time too. Every week of teaching was 60 hours plus nonstop thinking even while I slept. After 44 years I finally retired. People, it's been a year now and I'm still exhausted.
Sitting here on my first week of summer vacation lol. This first week has actually been amazing, but I have a (virtual) two-day conference next week (that I had to pay for!) and loads of professional development books to read over the "holidays". Totally true about only getting paid for 10 months - here in Canada too! Though I cannot in any way complain about my salary. Our union negotiated a very fair pay grid based on teaching experience and qualifications. I'm really sorry teachers in the states don't get paid very well. :/
Where in Canada? In Québec they’re struggling to get decent pay/treatment.
@@Mama_Bear524 Ontario. Yeah, I read that teachers in Quebec are paid about $20,000/year less than the national average. Yikes!
So happy for you👏🏼🥳 Here in Israel the pay grid is still ridiculously low - even for teachers with multiple advanced degrees...
True, Cdn. teachers are well paid by U.S. standards. But there's a downside to our high pay. It encourages so many university students to go into education that Canada has a massive teacher surplus. I've heard serious accounts of 15-20 ed. grads competing for 1 position. One very well-qualified guy I know confidently applied for a job in Tuktoyaktuk (in the remote frozen Arctic)...& was instantly rejected because they had such a glut of applicants! Even if you do luck out & some school division hires you, better realize you'll be considered quite disposable, since you can be quickly & easily replaced.
@@normanasher5006 This is so true, and it means for many school boards, it is often a loooong road to getting hired full time. Like you said, there's the initial competition of getting hired at all. But then you're just at the first stage - daily supply teacher. Your next hurdle is to get on the long-term occasional list (you're still a supply teacher, but can apply to long-term fill-in jobs rather than just daily work). Many people stay at these two levels for years depending on their school board. And then the final hurdle is to get a contract (permanent) position. Once you get here, you get on the seniority list and are paid a salary rather than a daily rate. But even here, most people aren't hired full-time right off the bat. It can be a few years before you get that 1.0 (full-time) position. And THEN with declining student enrollment (depending on the Board), teachers at the low-end of seniority list are often surplussed at the end of the school year because there are too few students to sustain their job. Anyway, once you finally get to a full-time position, you are often 10+ years into your career. At that point, you're kind of on the gravy train (pension, benefits, increasing salary, etc.) but you're also locked in to this career because you've invested so much. Note that teachers who teach French (as a second language or immersion or in French language schools) are in HIGH demand and can often get a job right out of their BEd degree, the lucky so-and-sos lol.
Preach! 🙌🏾
Full respect to teachers who actually care and give a damn about what you do! It takes courage and a hell of a lot of smarts, skills & organization that I will never have.
I can't say the same about my child's teacher this year though. She doesn't give 2 craps about what she does. We are one of the few states that actually pays teachers decently. She is in it for the salary. I don't say that too often. Most teachers I have nothing but respect for, but not this year. She truly sucks!
"your Bee-bee kids..." 🤣I laughed so hard at that spilled my tea all over.
This is funny and yet so on point. Non-educators have no idea what those of us within the profession deal with. Even those of us who are part-time paras deal with a lot as well and yet people expect that we do nothing at all. Really? Every program in the school system has their set of priorities, not just those who take the FSA, FCAT or whatever else they are throwing at teachers and students to achieve.
Also those people talking about paying taxes... guess what... those of us within the education system pay our taxes too. 🙄