Date: November 12th, 2023 12:08 PM
Author: cerise passionate brunch
https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/17t4li0/confession_teaching_at_a_title_i_school_with_a/
Confession: teaching at a Title I school with a progressive admin has made me less liberal…
…and it’s making me sad how callous I’ve become.
At the beginning of my career I swallowed all the social justice, restorative discipline, no grade below a 50, build relationships stuff hook line and sinker.
Now in year 10, I feel like a bitter shell of myself who no longer believes in any of it.
The main drivers of this:
Horrendous student behavior, directly proportionate to bad parenting, that admin excuses as “it’s just trauma, we can’t discipline for that” while students run into zero consequences until they get arrested at age 17 for felonies.
Continued lowering of the bar of rigor until it’s basically in the toilet, all in the name of equity, while kids who are trying to go to college can’t find rigorous courses to take (and in the few that exist, everyone is allowed in because of equity, so tons of kids just fuck around).
Prioritizing the needs of 3-4 disruptive students over the needs of the other 30 trying to learn, until even those 30 give up.
This one is tricky but: browbeating some teachers into accepting unprofessional, uncollegial behavior from other teachers because admin is afraid of being called racist.
Seeing the long term effects of lowered expectations, “grace”, and accepting the bare minimum from students and families, and the culture that fosters of entitlement/customer service rather than a true relationship between parents and teachers
Being held hostage emotionally by kids who say “that’s racist” any time they are asked to do something other than sit on TikTok and admin forced to take it seriously because they’re scared not to
It’s truly unreal to experience all of this and then hear white SJWs scream about how unfair the world is for kids of color and it’s all the fault of whiteness…I’m sorry, fucking WHAT? I get shit on by kids all day, and it’s my fault?
I hate what this has done to me. I feel like a Fox News asshole.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5443158&forum_id=2#47047382)