"This 24yo made good choices, she worked hard, graduated from college, and didn't use her body as an incubator....I don't trust her!" Fùcking people are idiots!

This has reminded me of the many child-less teachers I had. They were good, loving, kind people, with the same professionalism as their colleagues with children. Thank you all.

Wow! That woman is definitely the AH here. A single 24 year old is capable of being a teacher. That woman is completely unhinged and I really feel sorry for her daughter.

Does anyone else remember "The Waltons" or "Little House on the Prairie"? The teachers were always single, child-free women. They may have eventually married but in the beginning, they were single women. This used to be the norm, and is one reason why women dominated teaching jobs in primary schools for so long. That mom is simply delusional.

Baffles me. I had 4 kids going through all the grades, and I never once enquired about their teachers' parental status. Shame on me! Good teachers come in all shapes, sizes, and ages, (and so, alas, do bad ones) but I think it's good for the kids to encounter youth and enthusiasm, as well as (sometimes a bit jaded) experience.

It's despicable and sneaky that this woman goes behind your back to the school and lies to the principal. She tried to get your child switched to another class without your consent. If the teacher according to her isn't good enough for her kid,why should your kid have her as her teacher? I'd drop that so called " friend" for that behavior. You don't have to have children or be a certain age to be qualified to teach children. You have to work hard and get through your education and have a good relationship with kids. There were plenty of older teachers in school that sure as hell should not have been teaching when I was in school. We had an awful one who hated kids and taught absolutely nothing and spent the hour screaming at everyone and telling us how rotten we all were and how much she hated us. I eventually went to the dean's office and told him that I might as well be in detention during her hour because I wasn't going to be in her class anymore. There was another one who just read magazines and showed movies that had nothing to do with the subject he was teaching. She's so worried about whether or not the teacher is a parent or how old she is or how good of a teacher they will be, at least her kid won't be at that school . Biggest mistake my parents made was switching me from private school into public schools. Public schools just want bodies behind desks. They don't care.

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No wonder teachers are quitting in droves! Who wants to have to deal with people like this???

Judging the teacher by age and being childless instead of her teaching ability is unfair to the teacher and her own child.

Just be happy that there even are people left to teach!

I'm more concerned that people still send their children to public school... Doesn't matter the age of the teacher or whether she has kids... Teachers don't teach anymore

I've never heard of anything so absurd. Does she expect future grade school teachers to get pregnant in college as a graduation requirement, before they can get hired?

I went to parochial school, by this logic, no nuns should be teachers.

If one pareñt thinks a teacher is bad then why would you want your friend 's kids to have them for one. Two, if you have doubts about a teacher then aßk the teacher what she teaches and different things like that.

I had no idea about the marital or parental states of most of my teachers. No idea why it would matter unless it was a parenting class

It doesn't matter how old the teacher is. Because my daughter kindergarten teacher did not have any kids. And she was the best teacher out there and she was only 22. She's still alive. Yes, wonderful person, amazing woman Mason. I will never forget her and she just had a baby. Years after she left to school, but when she took my daughter, she didn't have no kids and she rated her like she was her own

As someone who was studying to be a teacher (swapped majors cause f*ck the edu system rn) this is disheartening that ppl believe young ppl cant have a job like that. How ELSE are we expected to get experience?!

I was a high school teacher at 22. I was passionate and hard-working. My students (and by extension their parents) also never knew my age.

Why is being childless/childfree seen as a negative? I see it as positive: you are more objective in your assesment of children because you're emotional attachment to them is of a different kind.

Sometimes it's very needed. I complained constantly about my 5th grade teacher being biased on certain students and hating the rest of us. The day I walked in after waking up in a flood with my bed floating in 8 feet of water so I sat on the roof of a floating trailer for 8 hours waiting to be rescued wearing my aunts clothing and too big shoes to the same teacher yelling at me for not having books or homework, so I told her next time I'll drown to make sure I get my back pack she slapped me with a ruler that had a metal side and it sliced from my eyebrow down my eyelid requiring an eye surgeon to repair it, and me wearing a eye patch for 6 weeks while it healed. If I'd been put in the other class as my mother requested the school would not have been out so much money and bad teacher fired half way through the year.

principle lol

In the US 1st grade is 7... why is this kid in grade 1 as a 5 year old?