Teacher quits mid-semester and calls for change

[Jilly_in_VA]

NASHVILLE, Tenn-- She quit her teaching job in the middle of the semester, and now she’s calling for change.

It wasn’t an easy decision for Camille Fox, a former second grade teacher. She reached her breaking point just two weeks ago.

“I reached a point where I could not take another step forward into the piles of paper. And that’s the way I felt. I refused to step into this mountain of work another day,” said Fox.

After seven years in the profession, she walked out on a Friday and didn’t come back.

“I had to get out immediately for everyone’s good. For, for my students, for myself, for my kids, my husband, I had to make a selfish choice for once,” she said.

In an honest conversation with News 2’s Alex Denis, she explained the stress she felt was overwhelming from the pressure from state and district mandates as well as texting expectations, canned lessons, meetings, gradings, lesson planning, individual student time and parent conferences.

Read the rest here:
https://www.wate.com/news/education/former-teacher-reaches-breaking-point-calls-for-change/

This is why, people.

[3Hotdogs]

1. She forgot to mention the violence. I packed it in, one day after shooting outside my classroom

window. The shooter, fortunately, missed his target.

AND

States violate their contracts with teachers. N.J. teachers were contracted to get automatic "cost of living" increases on an annual basis. There hasn't been one since 2009. How many other states will fail to pay their teachers' pensions?

And yeah.... the meetings. Endless meetings for no other purpose but for the purpose of having a meeting.

[Grins]

2. A killer of a line in that link:

" (Fox who has) a Master’s degree, struggled to pay bills on her $3,000 a month salary."

[Duppers]

3. Wow. 🙁

I'm sure a high percentage of teachers feel the same way.

I once told my Republican brother that I didn't mind paying more taxes than he did because my son had an excellent school system, as compared to the state he lives in. (Our state's teachers make much higher salaries, btw.) True story.

Teachers are heroes...or should be.