I posted on here a while back about quitting after the Uvalde shooting because of the way it was handled at my particular school. However, a lot of people pointed out how unfair my pay was. Here is what I had to deal with while being paid 17/hr:
- Break up a knife fight between two 11 yr olds
- Have a student's mother beg me not to call an ambulance when her child fell down the stairs and broke her ankle because she couldn't afford it. The student waited with a broken ankle in our nurse's office for over an hour for her mother to arrive. The scene was heartbreaking. (When a student is injured I have to notify the parents first, unless life threatening injury)
- Watch multiple students refuse lunch because they couldn't afford it (I always brought extra food for my students)
- When I taught sex ed for a semester, multiple parents signed waivers for their students to sit outside the classroom and not learn what I was teaching.
- Watch a kid staple his penis to a piece of paper on a dare, then get screamed at by his parents for not stopping him. (This was in a hallway, he was not in my class, I turned a corner to see the staple go into him, and him start to scream)
- Get screamed at by multiple parents for teaching their kids history “Wrong”. (As in, I taught them about Slavery)
- Be punched in the face by a kid
- Have to tell a girl she wasn't dying when her period started. Her parents hadn't told her about periods.
These are just some examples of things I had to do as a Teacher. None of which were in my job description. These examples exclude staying late (unpaid) grading, lunch duty, and many more verbal assaults by parents for teaching their children accurate history.