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I truly, deeply love the kids, and as bad as it is I can still occasionally reach a student and help him/her stay on track.

But I am almost to the end of my rope. Kids are getting so out of control and so dangerous that its almost impossible to reach them now. But the parent are the worst. They act so disgustingly that I can't stand the sight of them anymore. They drink and do drugs all night in front of their kids, put zero effort into raising their kids, and could give a lesser crap how they do in school, but the second little Tommy or Suzy gets into trouble the parents get drunk or high and come to school raising hell about it.

My sister teaches fourth graders and they are constantly coming to school and talking about the porn they watched at home the night before. Even little kids are out of hand now.

The only thing that has kept me going this long is the fact that we still have corporal punishment in our school. Even the worst kids can be partially controlled if they know they are going to get their butt paddled, but the paddle will be gone form our school district in the next couple of years. The sad thing is that the kids themselves have been polled repeatedly and the vast majority of them want to keep the paddle because they know it makes their school a safer place.

I am currently making plans to get out of the field, but it will take a couple of years. Maybe I can make it that long without getting shot or stabbed. I had to confront two very violent school shooter type seniors the other day. I was just relived to still be alive when the police got there. IF people really knew what goes on inside public schools they would never allow their kids to darken the door of one.