Education / Teaching thread

My wife is a 4th grade teacher, many of the points brought up by the OP really hit home. Teaching is my wife's dream job, she's wanted to do nothing else but teach these little ones... And she's good at it... Many times nominated for Teacher of the Year and in the one time she submitted the paperwork, she won.

Just last week:

• On average, left the house ~6:30am, got home at 7pm. Then had school work to do at home.
• In the classroom while my wife stepped out to get some papers from another teacher. Boy assaulted (hit) two girls, come to find out one of the girls had been bullying him and he got tired of it.
• They (teachers) are making phones calls to a certain set of parents several times a week. Not ONCE has the parents admitted or acknowledged responsibility on the behalf of their kid for all the different episodes. It's always everyone else's fault. This one kid causes disruptions daily and has zero care about any discipline measures....Different kid then one above.
• Wife tells me with Covid and schooling from home these last couple of years, that these kids are not familiar with expectations of classroom behavior... they try to run wild as that's their calibration.
• On Thursday I received a text message during lunch from the wife.. VERY rare! The question she posed was, "can I quit?"... Again, teaching is her dream job... but she's at her breaking point....along with many other teachers. In +20yrs, she has NEVER said anything remotely close to this...

Subs? It's difficult, if not impossible, to find subs at her school...