Can't believe we had a Russian plant in office and there are brainwashed traitors that want him back in

Absolutely. Sometimes parents meddle too much in their child's school life. It's ok to supervise what your child's been doing and whatnot, but for god's sake let the teachers handle how and what they teach in class. And I get it, there are some wacko teachers and they need a constant reminder of their job, but there are really good ones who have become so frustrated with all the nags! As if the school's pressure and the workload wasn't enough :(

All teachers do is the best they can. My school had a shooting today, where the principal and resource officer were shot, but even though kind of a chaotic situation the teachers handled it very well.

My best friend is a teacher. I never realized how bad the job has gotten but parents these days are really ridiculous, they text her at all hours with the dumbest crap, their kids are not going to know how to handle their own problems as they mature. So much of her time is spent coddling all the sensitive children and if anyone gets punished she is sure there will be a meeting with the parent and the principal the next day.

I still respect them highly.

consumer mentality.

I'm married to a teacher. I think they deserve a babysitting fee, over and above their base pay. Teachers spend more time with your children, than you, the parents do. It's time you let teachers teach and you do the parentingn at home Teachers aren't meddling in your parenting style at home. Kids today are super soft compared to just the 80s, when I was in junior high & high school.

Teachers do get s**t on a lot by parents but for the longest time I only heard about how parents aren't involved at all and teachers have to be the parents to these kids because the parents won't. Careful what you wish for because parents (for good or bad) are definitely involved now.

It took me a long time after graduation to realize that most of my teachers were the ones who actually cared about me, and the rest of the world didn't really GAF. It was a harsh lesson that entitled parents and kids will learn eventually.

I work in education in the UK and had access to log books from 1901 onwards. These were books that headteachers had to make notes in about each day. You saw how teachers went from respected members of the community that even parents went to for advice and would make home visits. In the 1950's you see the change in attitude of parents as they became more hostile and antagonistic towards teachers. Even threatening teachers outside the school gates. This attitude only gets worse and today we have many extreme variants of parents, such as lawnmower parents, helicopter parents and friend parents who don't think their kids can do any wrong.

sad, but unfortunately true. they get a lot of it from kids.

They have an easy time in the UK as low paid teachers assistants do most of their work now.

poor teachers

Don't forget admin and standardized testing.

(2) I had him for Creative Writing, so I knew what he was like. In AP classes, it was always a battle. He'd give us a TON of personal history info in the author of a poem, short story, novella, novel, etc. then notes on the work itself, THEN ask us, for a major part of our grade, to tell what WE thought. So I did. Never went well, but I spent more time with that teacher than any other. Second place would be my history teacher(s). My 11th and 12th grade years, I got nominated for the Who's Who Among USA High School Students, and I have 0 idea who nominated me. It takes 3 teachers to do that, with paperwork. My HS experience, I have NO clue... but yeah, teachers can be bad, and they can be oddly sneaky.

I want to be a teacher :/. I love teaching little kids.

When was it highly respected though? It has always been seen as just something women do and therefore not that hard or important. Movies and TV have long treated it as something anyone can just start doing.

I feel respected by my students and their parents.

They make big money in Canada, my grandparents retired in 94 and live in a rich neighborhood since the 60s.

Not sure why this is on the list. Teaching is an honorable profession. Pay them better wages!

Poor teachers.

Well, decades of building up unions that fight accountability and shield bad teachers/child touchers will do that. There's also the extremely racist hill that teachers' unions have chosen to die on, by working against charter schools and school choice. Also, NOW we have the internet and can see the ridiculous contracts that teachers' unions have negotiated. Working 9 months a year for over $50k and STILL getting full benefits and student loan forgiveness? Maybe teachers were ALWAYS a joke, and we're just getting savvy now.

Actually having worked in this sector my problem was primarily with the teachers. They were nasty pathological fascists who had a "my way or the highway" approach and refused to be corrected in their own ignorance and/or accept that they might be wrong about something. There were few who were open-minded. Another brick in the wall - Pink Floyd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqTTojTija8

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Maybe they should be better teachers...

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Honestly in my experience the majority of my teachers just collected their paychecks and told the kids to jut "dont think about it" if they had a mental illness. And god forbid you didn't understand something. Then they'd just keep telling you the same sentence over and over again but louder...

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My opinion is an unpopular one, but I had some very bad teachers and I don't think that it's a profession that should be defacto respected.

This thread is about disrespecting professions. I don't know about all the other countries but here in Europe they get our respect. I will punch anyone in the face who disrespects these fantastic people.

Grew up on a small farm. The work never stops.

There are too many scientists. On my Facebook wall alone, I have dozens of virologists, who have also just become specialists in wars and geopolitics.

… which is a shame because we really need proper journalism… the kind that seeks to uncover and lay bare the truth.

A stand up philosopher is a better career path. I wonder who will get the reference?

And the crazy people are joining, which is why police are disrespected.