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<p>Despite what parents, governments, and compensation packages say, teaching is an important profession.</p><p>Teachers from all over the world gather to commiserate on the<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/cs2jzm/what_are_some_unpopular_opinions_that_youve/?sort=top"> Subreddit aptly named r/Teachers, </a>and among the interesting threads is a discussion on what unpopular opinions they&#39;ve developed over years in the classroom.</p><p><span style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">If you&#39;ve ever had a teacher, it&#39;s a fascinating insight into what it talked about in the teachers&#39; lounge.</span></p><h2>1. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/bboymixer/" style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">bboymixer</a> can&#39;t convince you that learning is good.</h2><blockquote> <p>I can&#39;t make students want an education. If they don&#39;t want to show up or try then I&#39;ll focus my attention on the ones that do.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>2. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/booms16/">booms16</a> knows that kids aren&#39;t the tech wizards we assume they are.</h2><blockquote> <p>This generation is not the most &quot;tech-saavy.&quot; Most cannot solve simple problems themselves. I have heard, &quot;save? Where&#39;s that?&quot; Or better yet, citing a search results page as the source.</p> <p>They know how to point and click. That&#39;s it.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>3. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/infinitivephrase/">infinitivephrase</a> wants to erase the stigma around medication.</h2><blockquote> <p>Kids (at least in the population that I teach) are not over-medicated. Instead, they are vastly UNDER-medicated. There is so much stigma and fear-mongering about medication that so many children who might be helped greatly by meds go without. I sit in so many parent conferences where the parent declares that their child is diagnosed with something, but that they don&#39;t want their kid turned into a zombie by medication.</p> <p>I wasn&#39;t diagnosed with ADHD until I was 30. I lost a National Merit Scholarship. Having untreated ADHD had a tremendous negative impact on my life. I understand medication isn&#39;t the only tool, but it&#39;s a damned important one.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>4. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/HouseCopeland/">HouseCopeland</a> with a hot take: being a teacher is awesome.</h2><blockquote> <p>Here&#39;s my unpopular opinion: Our perks are awesome. I get every major holiday off, a week for Thanksgiving, two weeks at Christmas, a week for spring break, and two months off during the summer. I teach in a content area that I&#39;m passionate about, I never take work home with me unless I want to, and I make 60k a year with stipends from sports and clubs.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>5. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Chevey0/">Chevey0</a> can only do so much when a student&#39;s parents suck.</h2><blockquote> <p>Sh*t parents make sh*t kids who will eventually make more sh*t kids. By the time they get to secondary school it&rsquo;s mostly too late to really help them :(</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>6. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Baldwin41185/">Baldwin41185</a> drops multiple truth bombs.</h2><blockquote> <p>Kids these days aren&#39;t being prepared to be proactive but instead reactive.</p> <p>Parents are not strict enough.</p> <p>The kids are not being pushed nearly hard enough academically.</p> <p>We worry so much about the kids being safe and mentally alright that we forget some of the best things they can encounter are short and acute stressors.</p> <p>Kids should wear uniforms.</p> <p>Flexible seating is dubious.</p> <p>Giving kids laptops in middle school is pointless. It really only benefits the teachers for giving them assessments.</p> <p>Too many kids are given IEPs and parents don&#39;t get them off them even though the kid doesn&#39;t need the extra help. The parents want the IEPs for them in college.</p> <p>Kids should not be given get out of jail free cards for major assessments.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>7. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Kristywhatever/">Kristywhatever</a> calls for report cards to be honest.</h2><blockquote> <p>Grade inflation is a huge problem. It sucks for the kids that are really exceptional and do excellent work to get A&#39;s just like kids who turn in average/good quality work, because it devalues their grade and is demotivating to see someone performing significantly worse earning the same grade.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>8. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/OhioMegi/">OhioMegi</a> might need to take this up with the Americans with Disabilities Act.</h2><blockquote> <p>I don&rsquo;t think profound special needs children belong in a typical school. If a child is blind, eats through a tube a needs a nurse 24/7, I don&rsquo;t think a school is the best and safest place for them.</p> <p>I also think too many responsibilities are being put on schools. We&rsquo;re not a business, the parents aren&rsquo;t our customers and teachers are not just babysitting.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>9. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/elykittytee/">elykittytee</a> has respect for Gen Z.</h2><blockquote> <p>this generation isn&#39;t full of procrastinators.</p> <p>they&#39;re paying attention to too many things at once and have no sense of where to start or prioritizing, versus having a plan and just putting it off.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>10. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Damnit_Bird/">Damnit_Bird</a> is a Henry at heart.</h2><blockquote> <p>There are some names that I&#39;ve noticed have a trend of certain behaviors. Every Henry I&#39;ve met so far is very excitable and easily distracted, which is funny since that&#39;s my dog&#39;s name and he behaves the same way.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>11. Lead the way, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/fadedfigures/">fadedfigures</a>.</h2><blockquote> <p>If your kids aren&#39;t doing what you expect them to do, then <em>teach them</em> how to do it. You can&#39;t complain at someone who hasn&#39;t learned the skills you expect from them.</p> <p>I feel like a lot of folks are like, &quot;They don&#39;t write notes. They don&#39;t use their time effectively. They don&#39;t submit their homework the right way.&quot; Alright, so show them how! My kids had trouble accessing the online platform, so I showed them how to do it. The number of kids asking questions about it decreased dramatically after that.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>12. Why would we take responsibility for our own actions when we can just complain, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Djallen2/">Djallen2</a>?</h2><blockquote> <p>My unpopular opinion? Most of the parents who complain about &ldquo;participation trophies&rdquo; are the same kind of parents who bulldoze their way through their child&rsquo;s life so they never face any challenges.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>13. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/operatorloathesome/">operatorloathesome</a> has the hottest take of all: kids these days are actually good!</h2><blockquote> <p>The kids today are better, kinder, and more tolerant today than the media portrays. Phones and Wikipedia aren&#39;t the root of all evil. Middle School and Middle Schoolers are fun and interesting!</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

13 teachers share 'unpopular opinions' about kids, parents, and their jobs.

Despite what parents, governments, and compensation packages say, teaching is an important profession.Teachers from all over the world gather to commiserate on the Subreddit aptly named r/Teachers, and among the interesting threads is a discussion on what unpopular opinions they&#39;ve developed over years in the classroom.If you&#39;ve ever had a teacher, it&#39;s a fascinating insight into what it talked about in the teachers&#39; lounge.1. bboymixer can&#39;t convince you that learning is good. I can&#39;t make students want an education. If they don&#39;t want to show up or try then I&#39;ll focus my attention on the ones that do. 2. booms16 knows that kids aren&#39;t the tech wizards we assume they are. This generation is not the most &quot;tech-saavy.&quot; Most cannot solve simple problems themselves. I have heard, &quot;save? Where&#39;s that?&quot; Or better yet, citing a search results page as the source. They know how to point and click. That&#39;s it. 3. infinitivephrase wants to erase the stigma around medication. Kids (at least in the population that I teach) are not over-medicated. Instead, they are vastly UNDER-medicated. There is so much stigma and fear-mongering about medication that so many children who might be helped greatly by meds go without. I sit in so many parent conferences where the parent declares that their child is diagnosed with something, but that they don&#39;t want their kid turned into a zombie by medication. I wasn&#39;t diagnosed with ADHD until I was 30. I lost a National Merit Scholarship. Having untreated ADHD had a tremendous negative impact on my life. I understand medication isn&#39;t the only tool, but it&#39;s a damned important one. 4. HouseCopeland with a hot take: being a teacher is awesome. Here&#39;s my unpopular opinion: Our perks are awesome. I get every major holiday off, a week for Thanksgiving, two weeks at Christmas, a week for spring break, and two months off during the summer. I teach in a content area that I&#39;m passionate about, I never take work home with me unless I want to, and I make 60k a year with stipends from sports and clubs. 5. Chevey0 can only do so much when a student&#39;s parents suck. Sh*t parents make sh*t kids who will eventually make more sh*t kids. By the time they get to secondary school it&rsquo;s mostly too late to really help them :( 6. Baldwin41185 drops multiple truth bombs. Kids these days aren&#39;t being prepared to be proactive but instead reactive. Parents are not strict enough. The kids are not being pushed nearly hard enough academically. We worry so much about the kids being safe and mentally alright that we forget some of the best things they can encounter are short and acute stressors. Kids should wear uniforms. Flexible seating is dubious. Giving kids laptops in middle school is pointless. It really only benefits the teachers for giving them assessments. Too many kids are given IEPs and parents don&#39;t get them off them even though the kid doesn&#39;t need the extra help. The parents want the IEPs for them in college. Kids should not be given get out of jail free cards for major assessments. 7. Kristywhatever calls for report cards to be honest. Grade inflation is a huge problem. It sucks for the kids that are really exceptional and do excellent work to get A&#39;s just like kids who turn in average/good quality work, because it devalues their grade and is demotivating to see someone performing significantly worse earning the same grade. 8. OhioMegi might need to take this up with the Americans with Disabilities Act. I don&rsquo;t think profound special needs children belong in a typical school. If a child is blind, eats through a tube a needs a nurse 24/7, I don&rsquo;t think a school is the best and safest place for them. I also think too many responsibilities are being put on schools. We&rsquo;re not a business, the parents aren&rsquo;t our customers and teachers are not just babysitting. 9. elykittytee has respect for Gen Z. this generation isn&#39;t full of procrastinators. they&#39;re paying attention to too many things at once and have no sense of where to start or prioritizing, versus having a plan and just putting it off. 10. Damnit_Bird is a Henry at heart. There are some names that I&#39;ve noticed have a trend of certain behaviors. Every Henry I&#39;ve met so far is very excitable and easily distracted, which is funny since that&#39;s my dog&#39;s name and he behaves the same way. 11. Lead the way, fadedfigures. If your kids aren&#39;t doing what you expect them to do, then teach them how to do it. You can&#39;t complain at someone who hasn&#39;t learned the skills you expect from them. I feel like a lot of folks are like, &quot;They don&#39;t write notes. They don&#39;t use their time effectively. They don&#39;t submit their homework the right way.&quot; Alright, so show them how! My kids had trouble accessing the online platform, so I showed them how to do it. The number of kids asking questions about it decreased dramatically after that. 12. Why would we take responsibility for our own actions when we can just complain, Djallen2? My unpopular opinion? Most of the parents who complain about &ldquo;participation trophies&rdquo; are the same kind of parents who bulldoze their way through their child&rsquo;s life so they never face any challenges. 13. operatorloathesome has the hottest take of all: kids these days are actually good! The kids today are better, kinder, and more tolerant today than the media portrays. Phones and Wikipedia aren&#39;t the root of all evil. Middle School and Middle Schoolers are fun and interesting! 

Despite what parents, governments, and compensation packages say, teaching is an important profession.  Teachers from all over the world gather to commiserate on the Subreddit aptly named r/Teachers, and among the interesting threads is a...

13 teachers share 'unpopular opinions' about kids, parents, and their jobs.

1. bboymixer can't convince you that learning is good.

2. booms16 knows that kids aren't the tech wizards we assume they are.