Honestly, good teachers are out there. It's the bad apples that ruin the whole barrel. My childhood friend is a teacher, and she is one that says teachers don't make enough (while she makes six figures because she has a master's degree and 20+ years experience), complains about having to do work after her 7 hour school day (I was in a work position that I had to plan for clients off the clock too, and I made a fraction of what she did), gets how many days/weeks off? PLUS she celebrates the kids backing the teachers when they were "striking" by leaving their classes. So backing the teachers personal agendas rather than doing what they were supposed to do... LEARN. We didn't even know our teachers existed outside of school! We didn't even know they made money and that it was a job. PLUS, with the current trend of tipping your teacher at the beginning, middle and end of the school year, she walks around in $100 jeans she buys with gift cards and drinks Starbucks daily... with gift cards from her student's families. Then complains she isn't paid enough. Yes, she is liberal (sadly! But I am still good friends with her!)
Anyhow, I have a sister that is a good, conservative teacher, and she said the liberal agenda, even in her conservative area, is awful. She is afraid to speak out when another teacher is spewing hate and politics. She tries to be the light to kids that are underprivileged and needing extra support. She tries to be the one that tells them they are worth it, and don't have to put up with being marginalized. She works to keep agendas out of her classroom. However, she is forced to listen to the mandatory "What to do if ICE comes for a kid in your class!!!!" and all the ridiculous opinions and "fear" from the other teachers. It's being stoked in the teachers lounge. She and her husband are moving out of state to get away from the agendas and politics. So yeah, good teachers are out there, but they are being pretty much forced to stay silent by the majority of agenda pushers and, in the case of my sister, forced out of the system.
Honestly, good teachers are out there. It's the bad apples that ruin the whole barrel. My childhood friend is a teacher, and she is one that says teachers don't make enough (while she makes six figures because she has a master's degree and 20+ years experience), complains about having to do work after her 7 hour school day (I was in a work position that I had to plan for clients off the clock too, and I made a fraction of what she did), gets how many days/weeks off? PLUS she celebrates the kids backing the teachers when they were "striking" by leaving their classes. So backing the teachers personal agendas rather than doing what they were supposed to do... LEARN. We didn't even know our teachers existed outside of school! We didn't even know they made money and that it was a job. PLUS, with the current trend of tipping your teacher at the beginning, middle and end of the school year, she walks around in $100 jeans she buys with gift cards and drinks Starbucks daily... with gift cards from her student's families. Then complains she isn't paid enough. Yes, she is liberal (sadly! But I am still good friends with her!)
Anyhow, I have a sister that is a good, conservative teacher, and she said the liberal agenda, even in her conservative area, is awful. She is afraid to speak out when another teacher is spewing hate and politics. She tries to be the light to kids that are underprivileged and needing extra support. She tries to be the one that tells them they are worth it, and don't have to put up with being marginalized. She works to keep agendas out of her classroom. However, she is forced to listen to the mandatory "What to do if ICE comes for a kid in your class!!!!" and all the ridiculous opinions and "fear" from the other teachers. It's being stoked in the teachers lounge. She and her husband are moving out of state to get away from the agendas and politics. So yeah, good teachers are out there, but they are being pretty much forced to stay silent by the majority of agenda pushers and, in the case of my sister, forced out of the system.