Thankful for My Job

This is a response to the ever increasing bullshit spewed at teachers everyday: be thankful you have a job. If I hear that comment one more time, I think I'll throw up.

I am thankful that I have no control over the thermostat in my room: I can handle freezing and sweating while the front office is always comfortable.

I am thankful that parents don't show up at Back to School Night: I had to actually miss my own family to sit around and wait for yours to be a "No Show."

I am thankful that I get to pee once a day: Administrators get to go whenever they want and get a private bathroom.How uncouth is that, I ask?

I am thankful that parents can blame me for their mistakes: it's easier to think your kids with no respect or work ethic picked that up from me.

I am thankful that I have to go outside and be an extra target for gang activity: I think I missed the combat training course, but what the hell. 

I'm thankful that the principal can yell at me: I must need that, because he would never be anything less than professional, right?

I'm thankful for being told that I should be thankful for my teaching job: After all, education really isn't more than reading, writing, and math. Anyone could teach that, right?

I'm thankful that administration wants to treat me like an idiot. I love being degraded like that.

The truth is parents can't handle their own children and send them off to school with the mind set that it's actually MY job to teach them manners, respect, morals, etc. Administrators are so afraid of parents, they don;t have any balls to stand up for what's right. A kid can tell you to "fuck off" and you have to just take it or send them to the office, who then sends them back or to the counselor to find out why they are having a bad day. Really? If I had a bad day and told the jerk off in my class to "shut the fuck up" the principal would crucify me. The reality is teens behave badly all the time. It's not unusual for this scenario to happen.  If you aren't a teacher, you have no idea what really goes on in a classroom. Bottom line is parents have a hard time handling a few teens at one time. I can handle over 35. I am sick of hearing how teachers make too much money or get summers off. We deserve it.