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Re: Should I quit --Yes
Posted by anon on 10/14/09

    As I've said, you really need to resign that job. No job is worth ruining your health over,
    despite this horrendous economy.

    As I mentioned before, you will be eventually fired if you stay in your job. That's a guarantee.

    I myself would never go back into this cesspool called public education ever again. It isn't
    the kids, the parents, or even fellow teachers who are the problem. It's the unscrupulous and
    criminal types who run these individual schools and school districts who are the problem and why
    are schools are deteriorating right before our eyes.

    On 10/13/09, Confused wrote:
    > On 10/13/09, Catsister wrote:
    >> Do you think you can get permanent disability? If your heart is that bad that just
    > thinking of grading something can
    >> give you a chest pain, maybe teaching is not for you.
    >>
    >> In general, teaching is getting worse for teachers. Since I started looking for a job in
    > the 90's, the standard class load
    >> has risen from 5 to 6 classes in high school, the small plan book squares are out and full
    > lesson plans (typed, of
    >> course) are in, there are millions of rules regulating how you decorate your bulletin
    > board. You are supposed to make
    >> special lessons for every child, including those with all of the multiple intelligences,
    > ESL kids, those with classifications,
    >> those who are gifted and those who are not the sharpest knives in the drawer but are not
    > special ed. Meanwhile, the
    >> kids are almost unengageable thanks to teeny cell phones they can hide on their lap and
    > text with, and teeny
    >> headphones attached to teeny ipods they can listen to music with. I've heard of
    > administrators that will back teachers
    >> up if they get into an argument while confiscating these things, but I've also heard of
    > unicorns and leprechauns. I've
    >> never actually seen either one.
    >>
    >> My point: even in a better situation, it's still stressful enough to cause a heart attack.
    > Don't be like that little old lady in
    >> the commercial who falls on the floor and has chest pains and can't get up.
    >
    > Thanks for your advice. I think you misunderstood me though. Grading papers does not give me
    > chest pains and anxiety. It is the messiness that goes on at my school. If I am out on sick
    > leave, how do I even have any idea about the students grades and why would someone ask me to
    > contact them about it? It is just another form of harrassment. I have been harrassed for 2
    > years straight. I am just tired of it all and my body has taken enough and now is shutting
    > down. Stress is a killer! The last time I had chest pains or heart palpitations is when I
    > was working 2 jobs and still behind on bills. I had to learn to let it go. I quit one of the
    > jobs and said the heck with the bills, they got paid when they got paid. Now, I am having
    > them again and it has been close to 10 years later! This is my 6th year teaching and last
    > year was definitely the worst. That is why I am not able to deal with this year, last year
    > really tore me down.

     
     

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