Angry Teachers: Watcha Gonna Do?
Teachers are in a tough spot. I think it’s fair to say there is a growing sense among teachers that the overall quality and attractiveness of this job is deteriorating.
However much you might personally still enjoy teaching, or however much you hated it in the first place…it’s getting worse. For many people, that still keeps teaching safely in the neighborhood of ‘enjoyable’ or ‘tolerable’. But it will also push many over the edge and out of the profession. (Just wait until the economy turns around. Hands up…how many of you are looking to jump as soon as the job market improves?.…Yeah. I thought so.)
Does that sound right to you? I know that my audience is a bit self-selecting, but think about the 5 happiest teachers in your school. Do you think they are more happy or less happy than they were 3 years ago?
If this hypothesis is correct and applies more or less everywhere, what can we do about it? We are all fighting our own local battles. It’s sort of like ‘divide and conquer’ except we were already divided. They didn’t even have to do
