If you left teaching what did you go on to?

[Snowflakewater]

I had a really tough day today and parTly just need to vent and partly need some advice.

I think at the place I’m in now I really don’t know if I can carry on teaching, I’m losing passion for it on a daily basis. The good kids are amazing but the bad are awful. I got told “spotty features” and another shouted something so bad I just wanted to burst into tears another told me “I’m an arrogant so and so” for them flinging a chair across a room, I learnt not to let much get to me but this just did.

Since I’ve been back after summer I’ve lost the passion to teach, I just feel like I’m on auto pilot, I work with others who just seem to know jr all and one up each other in meetings. The kids simply do not listen and it just feels exhausting.

Part of me wants to stay or maybe this school just isn’t right, but then another part of me thinks, maybe I’m just not a good teacher and actually it might be time to find something that I do genuinely feel more passion for.

How is everyone else getting on?

Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, everyone’s had different experiences. You can’t dismiss mine because they weren’t like yours. Doesn’t work that way.

Er but you stated that your opinion was a fact, OP

As most English teachers would know....

The thing is, it is fine to say 'in my private school, behaviour was very good and the teachers were good and well-prepared, so I am personally under-prepared for managing the behaviour that is arising uin my classroom in my state school'. That's a personal opinion, based on personal experience.

It is not OK to make wild generalisations based on this personal experience, such as "You can tell me till you’re blue in the face that I’m being snobby or rude or childish, but the fact of the matter is, the behaviour in private schools is different to that of mainstream education."

People are not disagreeing that behaviour in the classroom when you are teaching is not the same as it was in the classrooms where you were a pupil. They are disagreeing with your generalisations.

@JanglyBeads said it for me.
You asserted your opinion as fact.
"You can’t dismiss mine because they weren’t like yours." Yet that's exactly what you're doing!

well when you waste all your free hours finding holes in peoples perspectives then what do you expect. You’re all rambling on like I’ve ruined Christmas.

I don’t enjoy teaching, stop acting like it’s your god given rights to keep harping ON AND ON about the same thing and why I’m a bad teacher for x,y,z or why I should just pack it in tomorrow. You’re constantly defending the profession like it’s your child. It’s not.

I have my views and you have yours. So just literally stop re hashing your perspective. I’ve heard it once and I don’t need to keep reading it, it’s so boring to keep reading.

Thjs is the internet and not everyone is going to agree. So just go about your business and stop rambling.

Then stop posting the same threads asking for advice over and over again.

Was that little tirade aimed at me? Who has, according to the stats on the filter button on the phone app, made 3 posts on this thread compared with your 46.

Stop replying? You’re the one giving your energy. I’m not actively requesting it.

congratulations you’ve learnt how to use your phone 👍

Well, I'm not sure people are defending the profession as a whole, just trying to correct some inaccuracies. Like your incorrect assertion that people who haven't taught in private schools have no boundaries. I mean, you've only been teaching a year, so not much evidence to back that up, just your experiences as a pupil, it seems.

If you really want to ask the question "How is everyone else getting on?" then perhaps be less judgemental and I can tell you about the times I haven't enjoyed teaching or, as per your thread title, tell you what I do now I've left mainstream teaching.

Snowflake, I genuinely think you might be insane.

Waydowninthehole I genuinesly don’t care about your opinion I did not reach out to you for a response.

Well, you posted on a public forum ... I've not wandered into your private messages.

How about wander off the post then :)

Okay, and why do you think the thread didn’t go how you’d hoped?

You're hell bent on assuming I actually care at this point.

You're still responding.

its my post so yes obviously I’ll reply

Not worth copying and pasting my replies. Be a little more original than than darling x

Just enjoying seeing how far you'll dig. No idea what's going on up there - are you talking to yourself?

Sad to think people like that exist in the field of education, if you’re wasting time seeing how far people dig you probably waste time digging at children too.

What?!

I don't know, I think the kids I teach do alright. No one is throwing things in my classroom nor referring to me as an arrogant so and so. Not entirely convinced your kids don't have the right of it.

Ooh scary.