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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Free to the user. And as they say about free health insurance, “you think it’s expensive now? Wait until it’s ‘free’.”
Yes, it costs a fortune and creates havoc when you have to follow a school bus.
It used to be teachers were married to husbands who made enough money to support the household, and that the income from teaching was merely a supplement.
Yeah kids will be kids. hell me and my friends did all kinds of things at school...looking in the girls locker room windows, emptying can of fart spray in choir, etc. but i’ll tell you this, they all ended with me in the principle’s office getting a wooden paddle to my @ss. I deserved every stroke I got for sure. I got more when I got home when my parents found out. Once that was done away with, class rooms were never the same.
Yet another part of our society in ruins: thank you “diversity”, thank you “every child, no matter how disabled or disruptive must be included in normal classes”, thank you idiot Obama for stopping the punishment of criminals in class.
...poor pay...
Get a marketable degree, if you want high pay.
The pay is fine, yes ... but benefits superior?! LOL! Not in Texas.
Starting pay for Oklahoma teachers is less than $33,000/year. Most teachers work long hours, because they take paperwork home with them. If they work 55 hour per week, that’s $11.53 an hour. Might sound good if you work at McDonald’s, but a lot of unskilled jobs start more than that. Minimum wage in some cities is higher than that. Yes, if you take into account the 9 month school year, that works out to about $16/hrs. Big whoop. Would you work at trying to corrall a room full of kids, whom you were not allowed to discipline, for that?
The crap that teachers are forced to teach today, is criminal. But, just like doctors being trained today have been indoctrinated by leftists, and no longer follow the Hippocratic oath, teachers being trained today have also been indoctrinated. “The whole heart is sick. The whole head is faint.” Modern “education”, whether paid well or paid poorly, is, in most cases, a disgrace. Who to blame? The lax parents, the neglected and or spoiled kids,the teaching colleges, the indoctrinated teachers, the even MORE indoctrinated administrators? Public schools are a microcosm of our sick, decadent society. And lest the Catholic school advocates chime in, have you been paying attention to what Catholic colleges are teaching, nowadays? Unless your kids are being taught by traditional nuns, (a highly unlikely scenario), they’re being taught about the same crap as secular school kids, with a little decorum and religion thrown in. Pray without ceasing.
80k???!!! LOL!! Not in Texas! Maybe in a union state up east.
We were not allowed to walk on the GRASS, even in High School. At the time, I thought that ridiculous, not understanding that 3,000 kids tramping on the grass for a day or two would turn it into a desert.
“having said that, when I was a kid, you never ever disrespected the teacher nor the school...
it was drilled into us not to damage the desks, or waste paper, or walk on the gym floor with your regular shoes on....
if you managed to get yourself in trouble with the teacher, you knew darn well that your parents would take her side..”
Same here.
In 5th grade the teacher caught me chewing gum in class.
She made me write “I shall not masticate obnoxious wads between my dentures during class” 500 times.
I made the mistake of not telling my parents. When they saw me writing the sentence over and over they demanded to know why.
When I told them my mother called the teacher at home. After a short conversation my mom handed the phone to me.
The teacher told me that after consulting my mom it was decided that I needed to write the sentence 1000 times.
It was months before I touched chewing gum again.
You should send that one to Matt Groening to have Bart write on The Simpsons' intro.
Not bad.
And, no, they aren't grading that many papers "at home".
DAD: "Hey honey, I got a conference with Johnny's teacher after school."
MOM: "OK, Don't be too late."
DAD: "By the way, I need to spend an extra $100 today so I can get the car radiator flushed."
In this case, more like Juanita.
Starting pay for teachers in the Houston suburb where I’ve lived for most of my time in Texas is a little over $53,200 / year. That’s for 9 months per year with every weekend off and every major holiday. Teachers with special abilities like bilingual get more. Longer service also means more.
Some teachers do not get paid enough in some places. In others they get much, much more than they could earn in the private sector. Texas has a minimum starting pay is $28,200 and goes up based on years of service to a minimum of $45,510 (but that’s with 40 years of service).
The largest budget item in most states is for public schools, and this is subsidized by federal tax dollars as well.
Public schools need to be replaced with a system based on vouchers and competition.
He rarely does....
Not in the least.
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