Quitting teaching because of student disrespect and physical aggression
Teachers are dealing with constant disrespect, awful attitudes, and physical aggression that leaves staff and other children seriously hurt. Because administrators dismiss this violence as just part of the job, teachers are forced to quit or barely hang on until the end of the year.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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Quitting teaching because of student disrespect and physical aggression
- 1Quitting education entirely to work in an office setting.Did this help you?
- 2Transitioning to corporate training roles.Did this help you?
- 3Teaching adults in minimum security prisons where bad behavior is not tolerated.Did this help you?
- 4Moving to schools in communities with higher parent involvement and discipline.Did this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Coulfn't take the constant disrespect and attitude from students any longer.”source ↗
“I am trying to hang on until the end of the year but the writing is on the wall. The kids are the job and the kids are awful. It sucks”source ↗
“Couldn’t accept the physical aggression and administrators saying it’s part of the job when staff and other children were getting seriously hurt.”source ↗
Where this came up
People with this problem also raised
- 58How to handle violent behavioral outbursts and fighting in class alone
- 4Kids fighting on the school bus and admin doing nothing
- 159Why are students behaving so badly and parents refusing accountability?
- 4School retreat where students hunt teachers in the woods
- 2How to handle a student who says I love you and gets too attached?
- 54How to handle disrespectful student micro-aggressions and boundary-crossing