Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Tantrum-Dad Wants To Fire All The Teachers" video.
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@elizabethsmusicandarts1590 I know. I taught community college for nearly 17 years part time, not as my main job. The last few years were a nightmare. I often took night classes at a local state college that used to be the teachers' college, and I had many fellow students who were in public education, usually in an affluent district. Their workload was unbelievable. Overwrought parents were using them as free therapists. Emails several pages long, twice a week, that sort of thing -- and those were the good jobs. No real regard for the teachers, or respect; pressure to give unearned grades; impossible for a teacher to say "no" to anything, because "think of the children." I'm not describing bad schools, I'm describing the "nicer" ones where my classmates taught while studying for their Master's degrees.
Of course, we had the shooter drills as well at community college, where I taught. I was expected to put myself at some measure of risk to protect the class, and I accepted the need, and the ethics as well. The day I knew I could no longer do that was the day I left. Students routinely harassed teachers and the teachers were assumed to be to blame. I have to say that when Trump came on the scene, that really blew the lid off. Everyone became entitled to their very own facts. Quite a few also wanted to bring their guns to school. I had more students crying in front of me, for various reasons, during those couple of years than during all the fifteen previous ones combined.
I wish I were making this up.
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