@junipersky said in RL Peeves:
It usually isn’t one big thing that forces good teachers out.
It is not having a key to a door you need to, or an email scolding you because one of your kids went to the bathroom and didn’t fully latch the door behind them.
Being told x% of your kids are behind when the system used to evaluate it is known to be flawed and throw false results.
It is having to take a week off of teaching that wasn’t built into your year plan for an EXTRA school wide test that will just show exactly what you know about your kids already.
It is covering classes during your prep multiple times a week.
It is the angry parent who won’t accept that yes their child DID in fact do the thing you called them about and you aren’t lying to them.
I don’t understand why any of us keep doing this… and I love teaching.
All these and many more are why I quit teaching. It is a job that is almost universally mistreated, undervalued, underpaid, and misrepresented. Teachers are essentially asked to score baskets from the three-point line with their hands tied behind their backs.
Fuck that. If the world wants to be stupid, good luck.