This is disgusting and the teachers should be punished

This isn’t Dead Poet’s Society or Freedom Writers. It’s incredibly rare to end up in an educational environment where respect to the teacher is freely given. You’re either in a top private school or a top class in a good school.

The reality of teaching isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, hence the incredibly high staff turnover. If you give most kids an inch they will take a mile. You can go in with the best lesson in the world, and the best intentions, but that doesn’t mean the kids will learn anything if the educational environment is chaotic and the kids don’t respect you.

Your role as a teacher is absolutely to control and maintain power. That might make me sound like a sociopath, but if you don’t have power in a normal classroom, then there is no education happening. This isn’t me on a power trip, I fucking hate the process to get to the point where there’s a mutual level of respect but I would say it’s probably the most important part of the job.

Seriously does my head in coming onto reddit and seeing people be so judgemental when they have no ideas of the reality of the profession.

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