Job Story: New York High School Teacher.......rude kids and dangerous buildings

[Unregistered]

I am in a program in my college training students to work especially in the inner-city. We start our student teaching in a inner-city highschool and middle school. I have confidence that i can make a difference and this article is very discouraging and depressing. There are people in the world that can handle it, just because you couldnt, doesnt mean you should bash the job..like its impossible to do.

[joedeats]

I cant help but notice you dont give your name or any personal info beyond the fact that you are a teacher yet you dismiss the problems someone else is having maybe thats why most people quit teaching in the first few years because teachers like yourself and the administrators, dont work at understanding rookie teachers and their problems. The person writes their own valid story in which they list their problems and woes with teaching and you comeback with this? I hope you rot in the moldy corrupt institution you protect so rabidly because soon no one will want to teach due to the lack of support. Please notice im not anonymous because I am actually willing to back what I say unlike most of the teachers Ive had to work with, and oddly just like you.

[Unregistered]

Geeze, give a break. Teaching almost anywhere is taxing, all the harder here in NYC, especially for the reasons given above!!! And if the back-stabbing teachers you work with don't get you (seem familiar there), the in-ept adminstration will, or the kids, or the mouse infested buildings crumbling around you will!

[Unregistered]

I believe you are RIGHT! I have a neighbor who has an MS (marketing) who is unemployed and temps as a substitute teacher in the Chicago Public Schools and she says it is hell on earth. Kids bring guns to school. They are, for the most part, illiterate. And don't care either! I work in the applied sciences, was out of work for awhile---and at points in the past too---and I have had Chi Public Schools HOUND ME to be a math teacher --I am qualifiied---they'd even waive the teaching certificate-they're so damn desperate! And I never went looking for THEM!!!! They (CPS) TELEMARKETED ME! With the hard sell! (I presume they got my college records somehow, and specifically WHAT I had studied).....I said NO FUCKING WAY!!!!!! I ain't getting shot, thanx but no thanx!

[noname12345]

I don't blame you for quitting. Your physical and mental health comes first!

[donelle61]

I have been teaching English and Theatre Arts at the high school level for 16 years (public schools in WA state). I completely enjoy the students, but I am at the point where I cannot take the work load and the paper load any longer. 12-16 hour days just to keep up with all the work will slowly eat your soul. Perhaps more importantly, I cannot continue to maintain the status quo any longer. I feel that I was once a great teacher, but I have had so many disappointments (the "disappointments" are long and troubling stories) brought about by inconsiderate administrators that I feel I must leave the profession before I completely lose myself. I don't know if anyone can understand. It seems like the more years you have been teaching, the less you have to say about it. I quit in June, 2006. Maybe I'll go back, someday.

[zizi]

I live in nyc and the kids in schools are BRUTAL. They lack respect and most are just outright dangerous. I've seen new teachers go from sparkles in their eyes and smiles to a walking miserable zombie by the end of the year. I felt bad for them.

[SemenOV]

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[AldebaranY]

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