Are You a Teacher? Are You EXHAUSTED? You are Not Alone!

Though teachers work in close relation to their fellow education-colleagues, sometimes they are so bogged down with the minutia of the job, concern for students and their professional reputation (which is coming closer and closer to being largely connected to the test scores of their non-adult, often unmotivated pupils), and resource creation, that they have little time to speak with one another regarding their energy-dampening worries.

Every once in a while, thank goodness, someone, somewhere says what teachers are too busy and EXHAUSTED to articulate.

For this, teachers are grateful.

It brings some REALITY to the public banter.

LINK TO THE "EXHAUSTION OF THE AMERICAN TEACHER" article below:

http://theeducatorsroom.com/2012/09/the-exhaustion-of-the-american-teacher/

"With the 2012-2013 American school year still in its infancy, it’s worthwhile to note that the people doing the actual educating are down in the dumps. Many feel more beaten down this year than last. Some are walking into their classrooms unsure if this is still the job for them. Their hearts ache with a quiet anguish that’s peculiarly theirs. They’ve accumulated invisible scars from years of trying to educate the increasingly hobbled American child effectively enough that his international test scores will rival those of children flourishing in wealthy, socially-advanced Scandinavian nations and even wealthier Asian city-states where tiger moms value education like American parents value fast food and reality TV.

The American child has changed, and not necessarily for the better. Many shrill voices argue that teachers must change, too, by simply working harder. The favored lever for achieving this prescribed augmentation of the American schoolteacher’s work ethic is fear, driven by a progressively more precarious employment situation.

But teachers by and large aren’t afraid; they’re just tired."