There's no birth control as effective as working with children.

…only after much discussion was she lead to understand that the childless teacher wore the same black and white outfit every day because it’s a Catholic school

That mother needs psychiatric care. Imagine growing up raised by that thing.

Been in Education a long time now. I can attest that her age and number of children are irrelevant to her teaching ability. This really shouldn't even need to be said. You can be brilliant, atrocious, or somewhere in between regardless of your age, child status, gender, race, music taste, whether or not you like pineapple on pizza, whether you're a dog or a cat person, etc. What makes a great teacher? Many different things, but they all share two things. One, a passion for learning. Not only for the students, but that ever-present drive and curiosity to learn more themselves. To continuously grow and adapt. And two, caring for people around them, including their students; you genuinely want GOOD for them and want to help them succeed.

Just because you don’t have children of your own does not mean you have no clue how to deal with children—-especially if you have a degree in the subject, ffs. Considering so many of the p**s poor parenting I’ve seen from some parents, I’m thinking maybe some mandatory remedial parenting classes would do them some good. Well, at least they might, since they’d have to STFU, listen, and actually learn in order to reap those benefits. That would make some of them nothing but lost causes. Maybe the young, childless, educated, and devoted teachers can adopt the kids who got stuck with p**s poor parents.

What a stupid b***h. Geez.

That's the whole freaking story! I was expecting there to be more than this st***d thing no one cares about.

It sounds like another bitter woman who gave up her college degree, and therefore career, to be a mother. It's called projection. At 24, the mother was probably saddled with a kid instead of building a career and future. Now she's taking it out on the 24 year old teacher.

In the first quarter of the 1900's, my aunt taught high school at 18. She went on to get her degrees and finally her masters. I thought she was a great teacher and I think her students thought so too.

all my worst teachers were like rly rly old, the new ones are usually pretty good

When I was a kid (a long, long time ago) kindergarten and first grade teachers were usually the youngest teachers in my elementary school and were the most cheerful and energetic. Their lack of children (at that point) likely contributed positively to their abundance of cheer and energy

Let's look at this from a different perspective: I used to work in healthcare. I am a woman, and a lesbian. Not having the same anatomy (or preference for that anatomy) did NOT stop me from keeping my male patients clean...just saying...

That poor kid is going to wind up “unschooled”.

No. For the past several years my daughter’s teachers have been new grads with no kids. I love it!! They are passionate and excited about teaching. When I message them about my child, they respond immediately. My experience with young teachers has been great.

So if she came from a large family, she could have 20 years of teaching and taking care of children smaller than her. Age does not equal experience.

These AITA posts are the stupidest, most obnoxious f*****g things ever. I used to enjoy that subreddit, but the last few years it's all s**t like this. Situations where people clearly know they're not TA but just want the fake internet points and clout and attention. It's disgusting and the people that continue to use it seriously absolutely baffle me.

The "friend" seems to be jealous of the teachers age and freedom while being childless and doesn't want to have to be around her minimally because of her child being in the class.

Please explain to me how a teacher's abilities to teach and whether or not they have children are connected? One has nothing to do with the other.

I've been a teacher since I'm 13yo (my mom had a foundation to help teaching children with difficulties) and I still don't have children today (40yo). I'm also autistic. I taught English to 2yo to 24yo, in schools and outside. I also taught French, Maths, History and Philosophy. I even taught Engligh to French deaf kids. And each time parents came to see me, it was to thank me their kid finally loved my matter. Being young makes you aware of new ways of thinking. Not having kid means you have all your time for the others'.

Principal.

LOL! NTA!! I have a better idea for the "friend"... take your daughter out of the school so you can home school her instead or transfer her to another school. Fortunately, your "entitlement" card has been declined multiple times at the existing school she's in now. 😄

First off, what is "childless"? Not having kids is the default in life, not "failure to breed". And if she doesn't want kids, she's ChildFREE, not "childless". Most people at 24 aren't married yet, let alone breeding. Her life, her choices, not that snooty nosy parker's. [ ........... ] Second, how long are graduates from college supposed to wait after getting teacher certificates before they become teachers? Ten years? A 24 year old teaching 18 year olds would be a bad idea, but teaching 5 year olds? Only an idiot would have a problem with that.