Why I would never be a teacher again

I was once a teacher and to give you a bit of a background I have a degree in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. I only became a teacher because I needed a job after University and getting a job with little experience in your field can be difficult. I have worked retail, restaurants and a grocery store and teaching is worse than them all by a long shot. People tell you that you get the summers off. That's true but most teachers have to work long hours and even weekends on their lesson plans. Imagine how much worse it is now in red states since teachers have to present all that to parents that have no knowledge of education or the subject being taught. Yes, it is these same parents (not all parents) and politicians that don't trust teachers with their kids but think we should arm teachers. Make that make sense.

I am not going to tell you that teachers are innocent. I did not meet a teacher that was forced to buy school supplies for their students and I never did. Many of those teachers will not help new teachers and new teachers will usually get stuck with the bad kids with behavioral problems. It is those same kids that have the parents wanting to tell teachers how to do their job.

If you are a teacher or drive the school bus and some kids get into a fight you actually can get into trouble with the parents, administrators and cops if you touch a kid. It really doesn't matter if one kid is 3X the size of the other kid and started the fight.

The school board and administration are inept and have very little to no actual training as a teacher. They will always side with the parent or kid. This as you can imagine causes the kids to act even worse since they feel they are untouchable.

Some of you may not like this but I have noticed and liberals tend to be against any form of self-defense. Kids and teachers should be allowed to do within reason anything to protect themselves from overly aggressive and violent students. Conservatives are against learning. Both sides ban books but conservatives go farther and ban anything that teaches about slavery and such. Missouri tried to pass a bill saying only scientific fact can be taught which means they have no idea how science works or what a scientific theory is. Later I will write a story as to why I can never be a Republican or a Democrat but neither are as pro education as they want to sound.

You will deal with a lot of bad parents and their kids. Now you may think I found the students and their parents the worst part of teaching but you would be wrong. Cops can be a bit annoying too but school administrators and other teachers are worse. Don't expect any help but do expect to be blamed for everything. Many of these kids are practically savages )that may hurt a lot of you but try teaching). The fault is the school administrators butting all kids in the same classes. They also put the bad kids in ESOL (these are classes to help foreign student learn English). My Organic Chemistry professor would often make this statement: Put all the incompetent people together were they can do the most damage, administration. Please note that I am not saying all administrators are bad.

Teachers get called groomers but kids are much more likely to be abused at church. I personally do believe teachers should not discuss their personal lives at school.

What a lot of people do not like to hear is not all kids can be or want to be doctors, lawyers, scientists and the like. A kid is not dumb for not passing a chemistry class they are forced to take. I would have had a hard time passing a class on car repair but I aced my science and math classes. Wood shop and metal shop were fun though. Trade classes need to be brought back and kids taking a course in basic sciences is fine but do not expect them all to take chemistry or biology. On the same topic, teachers are mainly teaching for the standardized tests, not the SATs or ACTs though. The SATs and ACTs can be passed if you take classes to prepare you for them which is a red flag that they are actually not a good way to determine how ready you are for college but how good you are at taking tests and how much money you have to take classes.

Most parents will not take part in their kids education. They only will get upset when their kid fails but it is a parents job, as well as the teacher to make sure the students learn. Teachers cannot go home with the students to make them learn. I also do not blame all parents for bad kids. Even the best parents can have bad kids.

There was once a parent who went to a conference with a teacher and brought her lawyer. he lawyer preceded to tell the teacher how to do his job, even though he has dozens of students. The teacher got up and told the lawyer, "If you think you can do my job better than be try it, I quit." Another teacher who had been teaching over 20 years, and taught ACE Chemistry (this is very advance chemistry that includes Organic Chemistry), that he should provided the tests earlier to a particular student who was in his standard chemistry classes. This teacher, luckily for him was popular and basically tenured if you want to call it that, got up, laughing and looked at the principle and simply said, "now that was a good joke, thanks for the laugh."

Particularly in the United States it does seem that teachers are hated or looked down on. Then again an educated population has always been the bane to any tyrannical government, which is why they are often purged first.

I hope you enjoyed this story and feel free to check out my other stories and my bio.