It looks fucking soul destroying, to me.

( Kroney, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 11:56, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

^^^this
The good ones get shat on by poor management and the bad ones take the piss.
Not that different to other jobs in a lot of ways.
Dealing with the parents would put me off for a start, a lot of them are the cause of the problems.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 12:00, Reply)

Children that don't know how to behave thanks to shitty parenting
unrealistic targets and intense pressure to meet them.

There are upsides to the job, but thye don't out-weigh the horror stories, in my opinion. I do know a bunch of teachers and they love it, for the most part. It's a vocation, I think.
( Kroney, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 12:02, Reply)

A teacher friend of mine explained it as the shit bits are really shit, but the good bits are brilliant and outweigh them.
She reckoned she'd rather have the two extremes than maintain an even keel of dullness.
It's totally a vocation.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 12:06, Reply)

One rather charming parent told me it was my job to teach her son manners.
God, I hate 'people'.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 25 Jun 2013, 12:06, Reply)

Well, you WERE offering a 'how to bring up well-mannered children' book on Ebay.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 12:08, Reply)

It was.
You were with him all day. What chance have the parents got?
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 12:08, Reply)

I know you're winding me up
but seriously, if your eleven year old son hasn't learned the rudimentary skills of 'listening' and 'not spitting at others', you're doing something seriously wrong as a parent.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 25 Jun 2013, 12:10, Reply)

These people are popping kids out to increase their income.
They're already a business asset, you can't seriously except them to take on YET MORE child care work? The government's not going to up their comfortable public sector pay package for the extra hours, so why would they?
( Kroney, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 12:11, Reply)

The problem now is that we're on the second or third generation of kids being brought up by kids.
They didn't receive any good parentling themselves, so I suppose they don't have a good example to follow.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 25 Jun 2013, 12:14, Reply)

The problem is that scum breeds on scum and they get paid per child.

( Kroney, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 12:16, Reply)

Eugenics.
It's the only way.

And forced sterilisation.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 25 Jun 2013, 12:17, Reply)

And a decent advertising campaign for human skin lampshades.
Yes.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 25 Jun 2013, 14:12, Reply)

^this, so much this.
I actually enjoyed the process of teaching. I just wasn't getting to do any. Even taking aside for a minute all the paperwork you have to do these days, what teachers do is largely glorified babysitting.
Or it was in the chav comprehensive on the sink estate where I worked.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 25 Jun 2013, 12:05, Reply)

This.
Its bad enough having the odd middle-aged child in an office. I don't want to surround myself with 30 of the fuckers.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Tue 25 Jun 2013, 13:44, Reply)