An upset teacher has spoken out and pleaded with parents to stop coddling their children after she was left humiliated by a mother of one of her students in front of the entire class.
Julie Marburger from Texas had always been dreaming of teaching and working with children. After realizing that the reality consisted of kids destroying her belongings and showing her zero respect, however, the teacher decided to share her rant on Facebook where she was backed up by random strangers and fellow teachers.
“I left work early today after an incident with a parent left me unable emotionally to continue for the day. I have already made the decision to leave teaching at the end of this year, and today, I don’t know if I will make it even that long,” Julie wrote.
“Parents have become far too disrespectful, and their children are even worse. Administration always seems to err on the side of keeping the parent happy, which leaves me with no way to do the job I was hired to do…teach kids.
“I am including photos that I took in my classroom over the past two days. This is how my classroom regularly looks after my students spend all day there. Keep in mind that many of the items damaged or destroyed by my students are my personal possessions or I purchased myself because I have NO classroom budget.
“I have finally had enough of the disregard for personal and school property and am drawing a line in the sand on a myriad of behaviors that I am through tolerating. Unfortunately, one parent today thought it was wrong of me to hold her son accountable for his behavior and decided to very rudely tell me so, in front of her son.
“Report cards to come out later this week, and I have nearly half of my students failing due to multiple (8-10) missing assignments.point 246 |
Most of these students and their parents haven’t seemed to care about this over the past three months, though weekly reports go out, emails have been sent and phone calls have been attempted.point 165 | But now I’m probably going to spend my entire week next week fielding calls and emails from irate parents, wanting to know why I failed their kid.point 291 | 1
“My administrator will demand an explanation of why I let so many fail without giving them support, even though I’ve done practically everything short of doing the work for them. And behavior in my class will deteriorate even more. I am expecting this because it is what has happened at the end of every other term thus far.
“I have never heard of a profession where people put so much of their heart and soul into their job, taking time and resources from their home and family, and getting paid such an insultingly measly amount.point 172 | Teachers are some of the most kind and giving people I have ever met, yet they get treated so disrespectfully from all sides.point 275 |
Most parents can’t stand to spend more than a couple hours a day with their kid, but we spend 8 with yours and 140 others just like him.point 115 | Is it too much to ask for a little common courtesy and civil conversation?point 176 | 1
“It has been a dream of mine for as long as I can remember to have a classroom of my own, and now my heart is broken to have become so disillusioned in these short two years.point 450 |
This is almost all I hear from other teachers as well, and they are leaving the profession in droves.point 83 | There is going to be a teacher crisis in this country before too many more years have passed unless the abuse of teachers stops.point 188 | ”point 191 | 1
As Julie added, she worries what will happen to the society unless parents “stop coddling and enabling their children.”
“People absolutely HAVE to stop coddling and enabling their children.point 196 | It’s a problem that’s going to spread through our society like wildfire.point 269 |
It’s not fair to society, and more importantly, is not fair to the children to teach them this is okay.point 90 | It will not serve them towards a successful and happy life,” she added.point 151 | 1
“Many will say I shouldn’t be posting such things on social media…that I should promote education and be positive. But I don’t care anymore. Any passion for this work I once had has been wrung completely out of me. Maybe I can be the voice of reason. THIS HAS TO STOP.”
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