Not sure if I want to do this profession anymore

I’m a substitute right now for middle and high school, working toward my certification, and honestly this job is making me not even want to keep going with it. I thought subbing would be a good way to get experience and see what teaching is really like. But actually being in the classroom? Completely different story. The behavior is just bad. No discipline, no respect. Kids talk over you, ignore you, do whatever they want. You spend the whole period just trying to get them to chill out instead of actually teaching anything. And it’s not just a couple kids, it’s a lot of them. Feels like they know nothing’s gonna happen, so they don’t care. No consequences, no accountability. I used to try and manage it with write-ups, calling things out, even bluffing consequences just to get them to do their work. They didn’t care. At all. That’s when it really hit me that real discipline just isn’t happening in these schools, because if it was, at least some of that would land. I’m at the point where I dread going in. Like I already know it’s gonna be a long, frustrating day before it even starts. It’s exhausting having to constantly repeat yourself and still get ignored. I didn’t think it would be easy, but I didn’t think it would be like this either. Now I’m seriously questioning if I even want to go through with getting certified, but at this point I don’t know what else to do with another career. Any long term teachers have some advice or are you in the same boat? submitted by /u/comical007 [link] [comments]