"A middle-school teacher who took to Facebook to vent her frustration with the perceived bad behavior of students and parents has struck a nerve with her now-viral post.
Julie Marburger
about 2 weeks ago
I left work early today after an incident with a parent left me unable emotionally to continue for the day.
I have already made the decision to leave teaching at the end of this year, and today, I don't know if I will make it even that long. Parents have become far too disrespectful, and their children are even worse.
Administration always seems to err on the side of keeping the parent happy, which leaves me with no way to do the job I was hired to do...teach kids.
...Report cards come out later this week, and I have nearly half of my students failing due to multiple (8-10) missing assignments.
Most of these students and their parents haven't seemed to care about this over the past three months, though weekly reports go out, emails have been sent and phone calls have been attempted.
But now I'm probably going to spend my entire week next week fielding calls and emails from irate parents, wanting to know why I failed their kid.
My administrator will demand an explanation of why I let so many fail without giving them support, even though I've done practically everything short of doing the work for them.
And behavior in my class will deteriorate even more.
I am expecting this, because it is what has happened at the end of every other term thus far..."
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