Texas teacher reveals how 'rude parents, disruptive children and poor pay' have forced her to...

DAILY MAIL UK ^ | april 9, 2018 | Jessica Rach For Mailonline

[Morgana]

FULL TITLE: Texas teacher reveals how 'rude parents, disruptive children and poor pay' have forced her to quit her job in viral post - as she shares photos of classroom items 'destroyed' by her students

A teacher has slammed her 'disruptive' students and their 'rude' parents over their lack of respect for her 'poorly paid' profession in a Facebook rant that's gone viral.

Julie Marburger, who works at the Rockwall Independent School District in Texas, said she had been pushed to quit her role as she feels as though she has 'no way to do the job I was hired to do... teach kids.'

Along with her status, which has had 322,000 likes and more than 400,000 shares, she posted images of her messy classroom, showing broken shelves, books and even an iPad, explaining that many of the items destroyed by the children were paid for out of her own pocket as she has no budget.

Julie from Utah, who teaches students aged 11-12, revealed she had been pushed to the brink of quitting that day by a 'disrespectful' parent who shouted at her in her classroom for holding her son to account.

In the post, she wrote: 'I left work early today after an incident with a parent left me unable emotionally to continue for the day.

[metmom]

Maybe she’s not allowed to lead a classroom in the proper manner, since discipline has really become lax in school in recent years.

I've talked to enough teachers.

Their hands are tied when it comes to discipline. They are not allowed to touch the kids and they are not allowed to take away recess or use any other means of discipline.

So it ends up that there are no consequences for bad behavior.

The kids can do what they want and nobody stops them.

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[FreedomPoster]

And reform schools.

[ozaukeemom]

My father was a teacher for over 30 years. He did grade a lot of papers at home, along with tests etc. He also taught an extra class for extra pay. When I was in high school, he also began doing taxes. We did not have much money. I think the max he made was $30K after 30 years. But, I had a Mom at home, a loving family and a lot of respect.
I still remember my father getting letters and visits to his classroom from prior students. He was very respected and loved his job. It did not make him rich in his bank account, but very much so in his soul.

[Windflier]

Do you have a texas ping?

Luv, can you ping the Texans to this thread? Thanks.

[klimeckg]

Send a thank card to good old Jimmy Carter for starting this disaster and while you are at it send some to all other administrations for continuing this unconstitutional debacle. Trump should end the DoED

[Flaming Conservative]

According to salary.com (https://swz.salary.com/SalaryWizard/Public-School-Teacher-Salary-Details-Enid-OK.aspx) a teacher in Enid with 5 years of experience averages around 52,000/year. For a 1080 hour school year, that’s $48/hour.

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Since you want to talk about averages, here’s a list. Sure, there are districts that start teachers out at a higher rate, but the AVERAGE salary for teachers in Oklahoma, (not starting wages) is at the most, $45,216. If you think that’s a lot, (keeping in mind that that figure includes the highest paid, when averaging out), that’s not that great. If the bad teachers could be fired, the good teachers still wouldn’t be making enough, and they’d STILL have to teach the leftist crap that gets forced on them and the kids. I don’t know what you think is good pay, but $45,000 is not that hot, even if it is for 9 months of the year. And teachers in Oklahoma, like almost everywhere else, are having to spend their own money on supplies. At the elementary level, walk into any classroom, and you will see the walls and borders covered in expensive learning aides. Those aren’t supplied by the school district; teachers buy them, themselves. In Oklahoma, there are a lot of poor kids. Do you think their parents send them to school with all the supplies? Maybe the kids who are on government programs get a voucher, but there are plenty of kids who fall through the cracks. Or maybe they have parents like my mother, who refused to buy more than the bare minimum required, and when the teacher told me I needed another tablet of writing paper, I’d have to tell her my mother refused to buy it. Teachers have to put up with delinquent children, who can no longer be disciplined, in virtually every district in the country. I used to want to be a teacher, but thank God, I decided to be a nurse. I’d never last 5 minutes in a classroom with some of today’s kids....but don’t get me started on nurse’s wages; that’s an even WORSE situation.

http://oklahomawatch.org/2014/04/21/which-schools-pay-teachers-the-most-and-least/

[oldvirginian]

Good idea.
Think I’ll give it a try.
Thanks.

[SecAmndmt]

The government schools are a big problem, but so are dysfunctional families. Lots of children are raised with no rules in the house, and their diet consists of a pile of processed trash. That environment plus Hollywood is directly responsible for child behavior in schools. And it isn’t just public schools. Private schools, even private Christian schools, have little influence over the child’s home life. Take God, Dad, rules and proper nutrition from children, and this is the crap we get. It won’t be long before we are one of those “s$#&hole” countries if the trend continues. Exceptional, my butt. Whatever was exceptional about us once is rapidly disappearing. And conservatives/Christians have done very little that is meaningful to change the trajectory.

Gotta love that welfare-warfare state!! /s

[Aevery_Freeman]

You are 100% correct!

But a skilled math/science teacher like me never goes unemployed. (Got to go teach Chem, now).

[luvie]

I’m on it, Windflier! Pinging the Texas bunch!

[Windflier]

Thanks, Luv.

I’ve got a couple of months to go before I get my cataracts handled. Until then, I’m limited to posting on my notebook computer, which doesn’t have the Texas list in it.

Much appreciated.

[T-Bird45]

You’re preaching to the choir, FC. My wife is a retired OK public school speech pathologist so I’m well aware of the limitations of the pay. My point was that teachers complaining about pay, lack of classroom support, and horrible kids/parents seems to be universal, no matter the location. Yet, the drumbeat is that OK sucks and TX is the land of milk and honey in the classroom. Based on your post, I’d say you know that’s not the reality on either side of the Red River.

[A_perfect_lady]

Oh, I agree, it didn’t used to be this way. School was a privilege. Then it became a right. Now it’s a requirement, and you don’t need to know much about humans to know that they despise anything you press upon them, and yearn for anything you deny them.

[A_perfect_lady]

Imagine what it’s like in a low-income inner city school.

I did 11 years of middle school in downtown Los Angeles. 70% of the kids were really sweet. 20% were not, and 10% were the sort of sociopaths that would keep you up at night.

[luvie]

You’re welcome. Anytime! Hope the surgery goes well. See ya in October! :)

[Flaming Conservative]

Yes, indeed. (I’m originally from the north)

[vooch]

it’s always so illuminating when gov’t employees blame their customers for product failure.

only a gov’t employee would do that

[A_perfect_lady]

And, no, they aren't grading that many papers "at home".

I suppose it varies from teacher to teacher, but I spent most of Spring Break reading 180 essays on google.docs, most of which featured 7 paragraphs for the section we were working on.

[bgill]

No, don’t blame her one bit. I quit because kids today are little hellions. Teachers are there to teach, not to go in single handedly to a prison riot.