I just have to ask: is anyone here an English teacher? Not that it’s required to see such childish name-calling, ridiculous generalizations, and not-so-cleverly placed cliche and tired opinions framed hypocritically (as always, almost cartoonishly) as “facts” (I.e. “They expect us to be body shields while MAGA brings guns and kills us all. That’s what they want.”) Seriously? I mean really, you can say half this stuff with a straight face and not feel completely foolish? Like you’re really being serious?
I’m a teacher too, and you’re absolutely right that we are grossly underpaid, sometimes mistreated and micro-managed by admin (sometimes, but this totally depends on individual districts and circumstance) and parents sometimes suck. But sometimes they are great too. Dare I say that?!? Or will the wrath of the “educated elite” who you baselessly claim are ALL these wise, somehow superior Democrats too sophisticated to listen to the “MAGA trash students” come for me?
Girl, give me a break. I’m sorry. I teach at a 70% black and at-risk school of beautiful boys and girls who I love dearly, as well as some extremely fine young white and Asian and Hispanic and even some MAGA kids who I love just as dearly. I’m an openly gay educator and my 9th and 10th grade kids and I would all be shields for each other if a shooting day ever came because that’s the community we have. We are a classroom of love. It’s the community I built with them. I also spend half my days at DAEP. And you say you’re so scared of being killed. Girl, sit. Down. You’re fine. And let me guess: you’ll probably spout off how “Privileged” I am to say that, despite the obvious advantage you clearly have at your fine institution of elite educators. 🙄
If you had any clue what you were doing, and spent the time you spent writing this fallacy-filled embarrassing nonsense of nonstop complaining and whining, while you sip your “but I’m an elite educator and so much smarter so I’m a Democrat therefore I shall whine” cup of sensitivity herbal tea, you would know that instead, to make a real difference, you could be sitting at a damn early track practice in the rain after a hurricane at 6 am cheering the kid on who had to walk to AM practice from home because his parents (also elite “Democrats” aka drug dealers who use him as a pawn) won’t take him anywhere. But where are you? What are you doing to make anything better besides complaining more? And complaining when someone says you complain? And MAGA mean! MAGA kill! MAGA bad! It’s like you have the logic of a child.
You’re complaining and the only thing you have to say about these KIDS who you teach is not THEIR future…no no no. But YOUR uncomfortable present. Your fear of the thousand ways everyone is out to kill you and “indoctrinate you.” Jesus, get real. You are not that important. If the kids heard you talk like this, they would laugh you out of the school. Nobody wants to kill you. Settle down. and stop making broad generalizations saying “Conservatives want this and that and conservatives believe we should all die blah blah blah.” I thought you hated generalizations? I thought stereotyping was bad? It is, to be sure. So STOP. You sound like an uneducated fool with child-like arguments.
I hope they don’t see this. Stop embarrassing the rest of us — The teachers who actually go to educate, not publicize our politics and our scathing hate for everyone and narcisstic need to feel important in the world with no mention of the kids except the ones you label and cast out as killers and don’t want around you. Teacher of the year. I wonder why none of them like you. Jesus.
I am so over it. So many educators are. And your voices — the nonstop complainers — are weakening. There are so many jobs now. Go find another! Please! But the rest of us, and the kids, and the adults, are moving on — have moved on — without you. Sounds like you made the right choice to quit. So far, I doubt anyone is chasing you down begging for you back. Now, please, kindly stop speaking for the rest of us when your speech isn’t even coherent to begin with.
