[toomuchtodo]

Parents (many uninvolved, many demanding and unrealistic) and administrators (kowtowing to parents) grind teachers down until they leave.

I recommend no one be a teacher in the US. It’s mostly daycare for those who can’t homeschool or private school, for whatever reason.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40053774

(Search “parents” in r/teachers on Reddit for more, being a teacher in the US is a shit show; I have helped more than one teacher switch careers to save them from public education)

[rdtsc]

For all the rhetoric about saving our children, the best for the children, etc, it comes to putting it into action, we do the opposite: no respect, low compensation, sending kids to school without any manners or respect towards the teachers.

Administrators are no better. They change policies year to year, more paperwork, more training needed, more rules. A lot of them have never been a teacher even.