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Originally Posted by opendoor
I could definitely see a large number of teachers being dissatisfied for various reasons. Some because they're simply not cut out for it, but even the good ones have likely seen their work conditions deteriorate over the years. More kids with special needs or behavioral issues are just being thrown into classes and being disruptive and some parents that increasingly view teachers as babysitters and absolve their children of any blame for pretty much anything.
Sure if you have great students who are willing to learn and involved parents it can be an easy job, but if you're an elementary teacher that gets stuck with a nightmare class and parents that blame you for everything their kid does wrong for an entire year, it can be hell. Imagine the dumbest and most ignorant parents (or children) you can think of, and somewhere some teacher has to deal with those people in a respectful and tactful manner regardless of how they're treated. There's a reason many choose to forgo the higher pay of the public system to work in private schools and that's because many of those issues don't come up.
There's also little room for career advancement unless you want to get into administration or perhaps curriculum design stuff. You could be in the top 1% of all teachers in the province but you're still getting paid the same as the bottom 1% assuming they have the same level of experience and education.
The trade offs are worth it for most teachers, but it's not always as rosy as some people like to suggest.
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What you described is pretty much the reason I got out.