I worked as a cleaner in a secondary school here in the UK for 17 years, so I got to know the teaching staff really well and saw so much of this firsthand.
Most teachers genuinely just want to teach. But somewhere along the line the role became teaching, administration, emotional support, behavior management, crisis management, resource hunting, paperwork, and everything in between.
And the sad part is, a lot of genuinely brilliant teachers are burning out not because they can’t teach, but because they’re being asked to carry an impossible system on their backs 😮💨
That about sums it up. My issue is that the solutions are there and they're not always even expensive. In many cases small investments would end up making the system more efficient.
This made me cry.
Thank you for writing this.
It feel nice to be seen.
Honestly this explained the problem so well.
I worked as a cleaner in a secondary school here in the UK for 17 years, so I got to know the teaching staff really well and saw so much of this firsthand.
Most teachers genuinely just want to teach. But somewhere along the line the role became teaching, administration, emotional support, behavior management, crisis management, resource hunting, paperwork, and everything in between.
And the sad part is, a lot of genuinely brilliant teachers are burning out not because they can’t teach, but because they’re being asked to carry an impossible system on their backs 😮💨
I worked as a substitute and support teacher in London mostly East End and in the year I was there I felt like I taught 1 day.
It feels like so many people enter teaching because they love education and connection, then end up drowning in everything built around it instead.
That about sums it up. My issue is that the solutions are there and they're not always even expensive. In many cases small investments would end up making the system more efficient.