I don't like this job

I feel stressed every day. Every single day it's the same thing: 1) 1st period having 30 percent of students absent, and then a handful of students coming in tardy throughout the hour. I email home and their counselors, but I'm left on read. 2) Chronic cellphone use. I feel like I just gave up trying to fight it at this point, and if it's not the phone it's playing games on chromebooks. Constant "can I go to the bathroom, my chromebook is dead, can I go to the nurse, my tummy hurts, do you have a bandaid, I'm sleeply.'' My students are 16-17 years old, but they act like 2nd graders. They also constantly push boundaries. Constant attitude every day. They spit on my kindness leaving me in a horrible mood by the time I get out of work. I just want to take a gummy and zone out after work even though I don't even like weed. 3) Chronic cheating from AI. I have students who have no idea what's going on in class, but answer every comphrension question perfectly. I have As in my gradebook that should really be an F, but I don't have time to prove AI is being used even though it's obvious. Everytime I call on one of these students in class they answer "I don't know haha." 4) Low pay and constant stress. There's always something hanging over me. 5) Department doesn't share any materials. Any time I've asked for slides or whatever I'm never given it. Other teachers don't want to share their "secret sauce." When I was hired, I was told how much our school loves collaborating, but I'm just left to fend for myself in my island of a room. 6) Can't use teacherspayteachers, but our district is going with using AI. Weird. 7) Disrespect from students. Constant being talked back to and students who flip out if they don't have an A even though they're several grade levels below. 8) Impossible to meet IEP and 504s. So many kids have one nowadays I stopped haivng due dates since I couldn't keep track of them all. It's literally gotten to the point where I say "We're taking a quiz, so if you have to go to the library go for it" as I watch half the class walk out to go ditch. 9) Pointless weekly meetings. 10) Every March like clockwork we hear about budget cuts. It's never any good news ever towards the end of the year. 11) Getting a sub note saying the kids were disrespectful. Like yes, I am heavily aware of that. Sorry. 12) Going to an IEP meeting where the counselors, other teachers, parents all kiss the students butt. And anytime I'm honest and say "he's late every class and just scrolls the whole period" I'm given the stink eye by everyone like I'm a failure as a professional. 13) Stupid iReady testing that students finish in 2 minutes and the district acts like the data is gold. We had our superintendent come in acting like the data was god tier even though all of us teachers knew kids just answer questions without reading them. 14) Hearing about how kids take photos of their teachers and hate pages on instagram. 15) One boy told me "I have a 504 and my dad will sue tf out of you if you don't follow it" on the first day of class. I didn't even know the kid's name yet. 16) Some kid made a fake porn using AI of one of our female teachers that went viral on our campus. No one ratted him out, so no consequences were given to anyone. The teacher is switching districts at the end of this school year. She was crying. 17) For my observation, I got middle scores. My principal's favorite word is 'rigor.' I need to be more rigorous, yet anytime I asked him for examples he just says vague and abstract things. 18) We have one of those curriculum design coaches (teacher on special duty) at our campus. During my first year I met with her, and every single question I had she would answer "well you're the teacher." I mean, "you're the teacher." She wanted to schedule a 2nd meeting for the following semester, but I thought why bother. Zero value came from it. Thoughts? I truly feel like the children run the circus. It's like the adults are all collectively scared of them. If I had a magic wand, Fs and suspensions would be handed out like candy on the daily until things go back to normal. I was watching youtube videos of classroom back in the 1920s-2000, and it just semeed so much easier to teach back then. The kids were calmer / more mature or something. submitted by /u/JimCap5 [link] [comments]