Posted on 06/21/2019 7:42:08 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Kindergarten teacher pens shocking viral post about why she quit her job, slamming parents whose unruly kids 'throw tantrums' and 'flip tables' because they aren't taught to behave or ever 'told no' at home
A former teacher has revealed the various reasons she decided to quit her job as a kindergarten teacher in a Facebook post.
Jessica Gentry, 34, from Harrisonburg, Virginia, took to Facebook on Thursday, June 13, to reveal the reason she quit her job at Stone Spring Elementary School after 12 years of teaching.
The mother-of-one listed a number of reasons that drove her to quit her job, including having a lack of support from children's parents, an emphasis being placed on using technology to teach, and the overall feeling that 'kids deserve better'.
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For what it’s worth, I live and send my kids to the local schools in a more or less middle class suburb just south of San Francisco in the ultraliberal, multicultural Bay Area. Parents are great here. I know the dad of every single one of their classmates, all of whom are highly involved. The moms as well, there are always lots of volunteers at the school, the local sports leagues are all super-active (500 kids in our Little League this year, in a town of maybe 10,000). I’ve never seen or heard of a real fight at school, and I never see the police in my neighborhood. It’s definitely parenting at a higher standard that what I grew up around, and I grew up in a pretty decent place for the time (1970’s).
How many had dads that would have us flipping a table in the back yard over and over and over and over until midnight, for the hard lesson of it? Not to mention marched before school to apologize to the teacher. Some parents might have taken a shorter route - a trip behind the woodshed for some remedial leatherworking, or the old standbye - go cut me a switch.
But remember, kids can and do call social services on their own parents nowadays for just looking crosseyed at them. Remember the sstory a few months ago about the kid wanting his dad arrested for confiscating the kids phone? It’s an urban thing I guess?
My dad circa 1950s
whatever the teacher does to you, I’ll double it when you get home.
If you’re arrested,. pray they don’t let you out, because if they don’t kill you, i will for shaming the family.
Sicilian parenting.
Snake Plissken may arise before WW3.
She should get a job at a private school; my experience has been that kids don’t act out like that in private schools. Of course, she’d have to take a huge pay cut.
I’ve put two kids through elementary school one still in third grade and I saw a none of these problems - all the parents are nice and all the kids are nice
No transgender ism. One boy dresses like a girl. No one cares.
no trying to teach them sex bull crap.
and I think there’s a lot of hysteria out there
I live in a very liberal. area to. Fairfax ca
It’s VERY normal and very 70s.
a lot of them probably end up in the big house.
Maybe at one time, but the trend now, is to not even arrest for many crimes, let alone incarcerate. Sure makes those phony crime statistics look great, though! Your politicians -— making life better for us all...well...The criminals among us, anyway.
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I have heard similar stories in our little town.
And we live in a place in Upstate NY where people don’t lock their doors yet and school events are very highly attended and parents are very involved.
Granted, it’s only a couple kids here, but I can easily imagine it’s much worse in many other places.
BS.
Kids don't feel safe in environments when there is no adult in charge and, yes, they are testing the waters, but not for the reason that person claims.
They behave that way because they are looking for someone to be the adult in the room and put their foot down.
Misbehavior is a power play and the kids are demanding the adult earn the right to be in charge.
I was told that if I was ever arrested, to plan on spending some time there cause they were not coming along and paying the bail to get me out.
And I knew they wouldn't. Not only because I knew we did not have the money, I knew that even if they did, they would not. But knowing they didn't have the money either made it far more substantial a threat.
“If she thinks she had it bad, wait till NYC and other cities implement rules that say you can’t arrest or suspend black students who cause mayhem.”
Wonder how those places will keep teachers?
“Was she teaching in an ‘Amish’ area?”
Have no idea but a lot of white kids are on add meds these days so hard to tell
Their children were monsters and very disrespectful to adults who were not their parents.
The children are grown now and, though I don't know how they are getting on in life (they all went to college and are now working), I have to wonder what the repercussions are.
I know she complined about the so-called lousy pay, but the teachers’ salaries, pensions and healthcare bennies are likely bankrupting her state.
But I bet she doesn’t give a damn about that, or what that kind of tax bill does to parents with kids.
Her whole post echoes so many of the things you’ve said about the classroom.
In other words, you live in an all white/Asian neighborhood.
The state I taught in decided to demand an additional science class graduation requirement - meaning Chemistry or Physics.
As a result most took Chemistry leading to classes where half the kids were Special Ed.
Suffice it to say, the curriculum had to be watered down and we had to train the SPED teachers Chemistry.
BTW, almost no one took Physics and it turned into a Model Airplane Building class.
the Holder rules are already in place
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