Posted on 04/09/2018 9:29:55 AM PDT by 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.
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I read of one NY teacher who worked summers in a Nevada brothel.
Naw...little more south
Why would you put yourself through this nonsense.
Let these stupid kids grow up to be homeless people.
It’s not worth your efforts ....... Leave now.
Did you have a father at home? Would he or mom reign down hell's fury if you did?
That tops any teacher side gig stories I know.
“Did you have a father at home? “
I didn’t have a father at home——Mom took care of everything.
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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 would want to know more about her particular situation.
But there have been many stories of how teachers get burned out, and this sounds like such a case.
It's not racial. And it's just as bad at high-income levels. And it's been happening for at least the last 20 years. My son graduated HS in 1996 at a mostly white high school in the San Francisco Bay Area - the kind of school where some kids get BMWs as a graduation gift and most kids go to top colleges.
The teachers then griped about not being able to control students because of parental intervention. One English teacher told me that in years past if he had disciplined a student, the student would go home and would also get disciplined by the parents for misbehaving at school. But now when he disciplined a student, the parent would come in and yell at him and go to the principal. He said a lot of kids would just laugh if he tried to discipline them because they knew in the end, there would be no consequences.
Time OUT!! Here in OK, we’re 6 days into a teacher walkout over pay and classroom funding with constant drumbeat of stories of teachers leaving OK for TX for better pay and classroom support. It’s a regular media feature in the news, both dead tree and electronic. What are we supposed to believe??? That the grass really isn’t greener on the other side of the Red River???
I read of one NY teacher who worked summers in a Nevada brothel.
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She didn’t get screwed as much in Nevada.
“Did you have a father at home? Would he or mom reign down hell’s fury if you did? “
Back in the day we all had PARENTS who did this. Some of us may have had Grandparents but we had someone.
Now days? I read crap online about how “if this teacher dare touch my kid I’m gonna go down to that school and do this to her”
I’m like if the teacher smacked little Billy or Sally’s hand maybe they deserved it? You know your kids are not always angels 100% of the time. You know your kids are acting a damn fool up at that school house. Why you taking it out on that teacher? If Miss Smith smack your child’s hands then find out why? Then maybe you need to believe Miss Smith and go smack your child’s behind when they get home so Miss Smith don’t need to do that again!
“Here in OK, we’re 6 days into a teacher walkout over pay and classroom funding “
All I can tell you as someone who went through the West Virginia Teacher walkout?
Fire the bitches! All of them. Get new ones. do what you have to do
Only making $80,000 a year?
No sane conservative should ever teach in a government indoctrination center (i.e. public school.) You are not ALLOWED to do your job, which includes effective discipline in cooperation with competent parents.
Having read the whole thing, I can see that this is only her 2nd year teaching, and it takes a good 4 years to get the hang of it. The first year is a hideous shock. The second year is misery. The third year is grim determination. The fourth year is numb. By the fifth year, you’re starting to figure out ways to get things done and it starts become occasionally enjoyable.
This is the society Democrats have been building for the past 50 years.
I joke that it took me the first five years to get used to 6th graders...they can be a challenge...lol. What many of my less experienced teachers saw as "disrespect", was mostly hormones. When I saw disrespect, the old Army guy in me handled it directly and forcefully.
But there was another lesson I learned over the years: when the teacher is passionate about the topic, it gets their attention.
A few months ago, I was told upon arrival that I was the only teacher (of 6) available for that night. That meant two classes would be combined, and the entire lesson was up to me.
The lesson that night was on "agape love", a topic far above the level of the typical 11/12 YO. During an introductory 8 minute video, I did a search on Fr. Robert Spitzer's book "Healing the Culture", which had a chapter on his description of the 4 levels of happiness, much like Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
My intro was unique, I called it a "Holy Spirit" moment...out of all the catechists at our parish, I was uniquely qualified to teach this lesson. I followed Fr. Spitzer by two years at Gonzaga, and I had his book in my library.
For the next 30 minutes, I had complete control of the class, they were so attentive. They responded to my questions of them, perhaps because I told them "there were no wrong answers."
Will I have the energy at age 66 to be that "passionate teacher"? Good question, I can't wait to find out. If the past is prologue, I'm optimistic, as I'm often greeted at church by former students, some who are entering their 30s, like my daughter.
I catch my students off guard when I tell them I'm not doing this for them. Rather I'm doing it for me. They are not the center of my life, despite all of that nonsense thrown their way, that they're the future. Education is a key that can open the door to a more enjoyable life, but nothing is guaranteed.
I'll have an advocate, the ISD superintendent. He's known our family for over 20 years, and he's looking forward to having me teach.
Lol. Probably made double in two months then what she made all year as a teacher.
As to dealing with disrespecting, difficult parents, I wouldn't continue with them one on one. I'd require a principal, or someone with greater authority than I. Having a second person there gets rid of the "he said, she said".
Not that I can't handle myself, lol.
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