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i& #39;ve spent the past 12 years of my life in pursuit of becoming a teacher. i& #39;ve been teaching since 2014, but there& #39;s always a new hoop for us to jump through. i& #39;m in grad school to become a better teacher. teaching is what i& #39;ve always wanted to do. but now, i& #39;m ready to quit. 1/
12 years making sure pics of me were PG so teacher programs couldn& #39;t use them against me. i was pulled from (and fought against) two undergrad programs. i withdrew from one in grad school (to use that time/energy towards teaching). i& #39;m currently in another grad level program. 2/
i& #39;m struggling with teaching and being a student, but i& #39;m making it work this time. i& #39;m dedicated, like i& #39;ve always been. i& #39;ve never let any obstacle stop me. i& #39;ve never let any buttheads get in my way. i& #39;ve always been determined. 3/
i& #39;ve taught family members of former students. i& #39;ve tutored family members of current & former students, even if they didn& #39;t go to my school. hell, i& #39;ve even tutored parents! my payment? ha. "just make sure y& #39;all got some snacks so we don& #39;t get hungry!" 4/
i love my students. i love being there for them. i love letting them know they can always count on me. the stress of being a teacher, the long hours, the extra work, everything was worth it because i know i& #39;m making a difference. 5/
so why am i finally ready to give up? BECAUSE IT& #39;S BEEN 12 DAMN YEARS OF ME TRYING AND I& #39;M TIRED. it& #39;s like in movies when olympic kids have their dad& #39;s as trainers and the dad is always critiquing them, never allowing them to experience just being good at something. 6/
everything is based off of how your superiors think things should go. "he worded it this way instead of that way." BECAUSE I KNOW MY STUDENTS AND MY STRENGTHS. but that& #39;s not what gets counted. only what they see, compared to what THEY THINK should have happened. 7/
now i& #39;m just rambling. but here& #39;s what really broke the camel& #39;s back - remote teaching. i didn& #39;t sign up for this shit. i didn& #39;t sign up to teach from a computer that has 13 windows, 97 tabs, an unknown number of shared drives, folders, docs, etc. all open at once. 8/
i didn& #39;t sign up to be a case manager, calling families to inquire about all kinds of things. i didn& #39;t sign up to assign boring ass online lessons to students.
i signed up to be a teacher in a classroom. that is what i spent 12 years of my life learning how to do. 9/
i signed up to be a teacher in a classroom. that is what i spent 12 years of my life learning how to do. 9/
but now everything has changed and this is the new norm for the time being. but i don& #39;t operate like this. this isn& #39;t the best version of me. this isn& #39;t for me.
this remote teaching crap is what& #39;s going to finally cause me to throw in the towel. 10/
this remote teaching crap is what& #39;s going to finally cause me to throw in the towel. 10/
after all the shit i& #39;ve been through to become a teacher, and never letting any of it stop me - i& #39;m finally at my breaking point due to this remote teaching stuff. can& #39;t quit though, because of bills! joy! 11/
so if anyone has any money to offer so i can rid my life of teacher debt AND FIND ANOTHER WAY OF LIFE, please share. because life is hard, it sucks, and i& #39;m not cut out to be a remote teacher.
thanks for coming to my rant. 12/12
thanks for coming to my rant. 12/12
