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02/06/23

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Originally posted by 14bc: ↑

My wife is a teacher.
She had a kid throw a chair at her and the official course she was to take was to remove all the other children from the room and let the little monster settle down. She is never allowed to touch the kids except to prevent them from hurting themselves. And that is only when the danger is obvious and imminent. Then you get the parents that blame their child’s outburst on my wife for not identifying their kids needs and nurturing them better.
I swear that I listen to my wife talk about her day and think I would be in prison if I was a teacher because only so many kids could fall down stairs before questions would be asked.
And don't get me started on how teachers are treated by the department or the government. Imagine if you will, taking a job at a coffee shop and on the first day being asked if you had brough coffee beans to make the coffee with? Yet that is what my wife must do. Provide all the materials to teach the class with. When you go into a classroom in Queensland and see all of the posters on the wall, the reading aids or the maths aids, you can be fairly sure that the teacher has paid tor them with their money, because the school / department doesn't provide them. My wife is allocated 1 [ONE] photocopy per student per day. Need / want an app to teach a principle? Go buy it yourself. Need materials to teach a science lesson? Go buy it yourself. Art supplies? Better put your hand in your pocket.
For the first time in our married life, after a story about a girl stabbing another girl with a pair of scissors the other day, my wife said that she thinks it might be time to find a different job. The risks to her as a person, the things that are asked of her by the school / department & the decreasing respect by the community she serves just makes the job not worth the cost.
So for the absolute numpties that say teachers teach kids not to think...go screw yourselves.

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And teachers do all this for a pittance. Along with nurses the most underpaid professions IMO. Almost makes me feel ashamed to draw the salary I do as an engineer writing shelfware for the bureaucracy without the stress of dealing with society's most vulnerable.
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