#leaving teaching

[freddy-fagbear]

there's something so upsetting about leaving teaching after fighting so hard to get my degree and get a job. the system has set me up to fail and im exhausted. there's not a single part of me that wants to teach anymore.

[thatssonanii]

A Piece of My Unofficial 2025 Statement

May 2025 (unless something happens sooner) will be the end of my teaching era. I will be resigning from my position to pursue what I really want to do.

This has been a decision that I've said I was gonna make for the last 3 or 4 years but this is really it.

I'm ready to do what I know I was meant to do.

I'm also tired. These parents are getting worse and worse and in return so are their children. They want teachers so much from teachers but they don't help, they get angry with us for trying to help their children and/or they become vindictive.

Seeing what lengths these parents (not all obviously so don't try it) will go to just to get a raggedy ass dollar is disgusting. To see the way these parents turn on teachers that have been there for their kids from the moment their child stepped foot in their classroom is appalling. To see the way that these parent vilify teachers when they hear something they don't want to hear or at the smallest inconvenience is atrocious.

And can't leave out the admin teams and board members. They will constantly say "oh you need more help in here" or "let me know what I can do to help" or "I've/We've got your back" then turn around and feed you to the wolves. They put us in the line of fire over and over and over again.

One day yall are going to wonder why there are no more teachers, then and look at your neighbor, your friend, your family or even yourself in the mirror and you'll see why.

It's never the children, we understand that for the most part they are exhibiting learned behavior that can be changed. It's the adults. Always the adults.

As of May 2025 (or July so I can get my money they took out to pay me in the summer😂I'm leaving with my shit) my teacher era will be OVER by MY choice!

[stealth-science]

It’s official. I’m moving from teaching to rangering. I’ll be taking people’s money so they can get all sandy!

[gaypanicrunsinthefamily2]

Well I became a statistic. I quit teaching after one year. Turns out executive dysfunction and terrible admin will completely wreck your mental health.

[sustainablelifeinactionsblog]

Endings and Beginnings: Introducing the GruntGrunts

GruntGrunts- Magical creatures who help with big emotions and bring love and calm Yesterday was the end. The end of my career as a special education teacher that is. I joined the 50% of special ed teachers who leave within the first five years of working with high needs students. It was a staff only day at school, so Thursday was actually my last day with the kids and yesterday was all about…

Endings and Beginnings: Introducing the GruntGrunts

[sustainablelifeinaction]

Endings and Beginnings: Introducing the GruntGrunts

GruntGrunts- Magical creatures who help with big emotions and bring love and calm Yesterday was the end. The end of my career as a special education teacher that is. I joined the 50% of special ed teachers who leave within the first five years of working with high needs students. It was a staff only day at school, so Thursday was actually my last day with the kids and yesterday was all about…

Endings and Beginnings: Introducing the GruntGrunts

[agentmilocade]

Well, here we go again.

Sunday night before the start of the Spring term.

I can feel my heart starting to hammer, and the adrenaline cooling my veins as I let my mind drift towards tomorrow...

I should have brought books and exams home to mark over the holiday, but I didn't.

I should have brought my planner home so I could at least see what lessons I have tomorrow, but I didn't.

I should have checked that I had lessons planned for this week, but I didn't.

Last term was so long, and so tough. The kids' behaviour has become utterly ridiculous - I wouldn't have believed it, had I not seen it with my own eyes. SLT have become completely deluded with regards to priorities and reasonableness.

And I myself have become bitter and cynical beyond anything I ever would have imagined of myself. I became grouchy and sarcastic with the kids, indifferent to their breaking of pointless rules. But apathy was the only thing standing between me and a stress-induced coronary event.

So I took a big step away from school, and relaxed. For two marvelous weeks, I could breathe, and feel alive.

Is it possible to live like this? To feel one's spirit slowly wither and die, the very sense of self being wrung out like a worn washcloth, as we claw our way to the next break on bleeding hands and knees?

*Ding ding* Seconds out, round two.

As a marathoner, I'm no stranger to endurance. I know that pushing through the pain can sometimes make you stronger. But repeatedly attacking cracks, will make a person break.

This may be my final term.

I'd like to push through to summer (mainly for the paid summer holiday...), but if I feel I'm at breaking point, the 28th of Feb is quitting day.

How many others have that date in sight, I wonder?

Schools are changing, to reflect a changing world. But we are changing, too; as the old guard retire out, we are left with the millennial generation - notorious for our "entitlement" (def: refusing to put up with unacceptable treatment).

I foresee a future where teaching is not a long term career, but a high turnover profession, that no one does for more than a few years at a time. Maybe it becomes a form of National Service 😆.

I wonder what effect this will have on the quality of education on offer for our descendents? Or if the sector will evolve to counter this inevitable decay?

All I can say, is that I have learnt a lot from my brief stint (6 years) in education, and that I will never begrudge a teacher their 13 weeks of holiday a year, anymore than I would begrudge a drowning man breath.

[agentmilocade]

Why is changing jobs such a huge challenge?

My job is draining my will to live, and on top of that I feel like I'm having to commit hours of research, and sit multiple exams (applications and interviews) just to get a new one.

I WANT to work, to be able to support myself and my family, but jumping from one job to another is almost as hard as staying in the one I hate.