"Why I’m Quitting Teaching" — Frustrated Teacher Finally Speaks Up

Nov. 20 2023, Published 10:17 p.m. ET

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, faculties went remote. Teachers had to regulate their lesson plans in simply days to a completely new manner of finding out. Schools then slowly came back to in-person, with some doing a hybrid fashion. Other faculties had scholars make a choice if they wanted to be faraway or in user. The combos have been never-ending but the point is that numerous the brunt of the paintings landed in the academics' laps.

While college is apparently again to customary, the residual impact that 2020 had is hitting scholars and lecturers alike. One teacher is fed up with what she had to deal with over the past few years and is quitting teaching. She took to TikTok to provide an explanation for.

We ruin down the viral video under. Keep reading for all of the main points.

A teacher explains why she is quitting teaching in a viral video.

The video, posted via TikTok consumer @hannah_logue, has 1.7 million views, with 177 thousand likes, and 4,551 feedback. The video opens with Hannah speaking without delay to the digital camera and declaring passionately, "I'm quitting teaching and here's why."

Hannah then starts to listing the reasons: "Number One: when I leave this building every single day, I'm exhausted. Exhausted. Mentally and emotionally exhausted. I have no patience for anything that I go home to. I am a complete b---- to my fiancé 90 percent of the time because of what happens here."

Hannah explains that the second reason why is as a result of the conduct problems of the scholars. She says, "In my five years of teaching, this has been the worst year by far... I have been hit, I have had things thrown at me, and I have been cussed out more times than I can count."

Hannah also said, "There's nowhere to send these kids. There's nothing to do because there's nothing we can do." Hannah ends the video by explaining that the ultimate reason is that she doesn't get paid enough to match the unrealistic expectations.

Hannah explains that "the district and the state" have "insane" expectancies for what she's intended to do in "seven hours." Hannah also says that she has been known as "incompetent," among different things, and has had sufficient.

Hannah ends the video by way of saying, "The last thing I get to do now is teach... and that's why I'm leaving. Because I no longer get to be a teacher here." That line is undoubtedly a mic-drop moment.

Naturally, the lecturers on TikTok are backing up Hannah one hundred p.c. Teachers in the feedback can relate and share their own stories with habits issues. One consumer wrote, "This is my tenth year. Every year the behaviors get worse, but after they came back from Covid it’s been WAY worse. All I do all day long is behaviors."

Other teachers are commenting that they quit for an identical reasons. One consumer wrote, "I left in December of last year! My husband tells me constantly that I am a whole new person in the best way! I feel like I have my sparkly back!"

Other lecturers mentioned, "It was the best thing I ever did for my mental health," and "I work from home and make double my teaching salary and have no stress," letting Hannah know that the grass is really greener on the other side.

At the tip of the day, it's just unhappy. Teachers do not have to be put thru these scenarios, however the kids also deserve an schooling machine that works for them.

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