Leaving teaching

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Well, I've done this job long enough to realise ah, my talents might be better used in a profession with less teenagers. Loved teaching the little ones, loved working with the sixth form, but Christ will i have bad memories of the 13-15 year olds. I think the final straw was either a full blown fight in my lab where a student somehow tore my blazer, but I will say, I will have PTSD at the thought of ever seeing a paper aeroplane ever again.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Best of luck in whatever new job you find.

[Cassius]

Congratulations, best of luck on your new endeavours (for what it’s worth re teaching my mum always said that Years 7-11 were absolute cancer, and that was forty years ago when if a boy made trouble she could ask her colleague in the next room to come in and fling the kid into a wall)!

[Mr. Smith]

Can't deny some jealousy on my end, but congrats anyway...you're doing what I would, if I had entered debt free.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Don't know what to say.  Teaching isn't supposed to be this traumatic.

[Xing]

I wish you the best. I can definitely relate, as I may not be in education much longer. A lot has been wrong with teaching for a while, and it’s just gotten continuously worse to the point where many teachers have simply had enough.

[Torie]

Seems like a redux of Lord of the Flies. The Dark/Middle Ages where brutish and short with the brutish bit because ruled by the young. Germs killed off the the olds with relentless efficiency.

[muon2]

I've been happily teaching in higher ed, enough so that I have continued in semi-retirement. But from my few experiences with middle school, they are the toughest to teach. I did Mr. Science with primary grades with great success, but as students approach their early teens the game changes. By the time students are about to finish high school I can approach those classes like I would a freshman class in college.