Teaching Is Sucking the Life Out of Me

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Suzanne is ready to ready to throw in the towel after 24 years of teaching because of the way public schools seem to no longer care about kids. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from two to five p.m. Eastern time on serious XM.
0:10.0	Triumph 111. Suzanne, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. Hi. Um, wow, this is such an honor to speak to you. I'm kind of.
0:21.0	To come down there, but um, basically, uh, I'm a teacher. I've been teaching for 24 years. And in the last few years, the teaching profession is just.
0:33.0	At the school where I'm working is just done a 180 in terms of me being able to decide what to do in my classroom. And the administration has decided.
0:46.0	How we should teach what we should teach and what we should teach with it. And it's all very difficult because it doesn't help the students a lot of the time. And when I question.
0:57.0	Okay. Suzanne. Suzanne. Yeah. You're done there. You're done there. I go, I go one more year.
1:08.0	Okay. Well, then stop. Put all your values aside and survive a year. Just do what they tell you in any year. You're done. Stop fighting it. You're not going to win it.
1:23.0	I mean, I'm sure you've kept up your teacher. So you've been reading the news all over the country. What's going on in schools.
1:30.0	Yeah, it's absolutely insane. Yes. So if you don't wish to get out now, get out in a year. Okay.
1:43.0	But you're not going to change anything because the wrong people have spent the time getting in places of power like school systems and school boards.
1:56.0	You know that. Exactly. I do. I just don't know why it is when they come at me with lies and I just keep the power.
2:08.0	And just because you have no guns. They have tanks.
2:17.0	Okay. If you want to make it. If you want to make it, man, let me finish my sentence, please. If you want to make it through a year, shut up.
2:27.0	Or they'll find grounds to fire you. You know what's going on. Don't blame yourself.
2:38.0	Okay.
2:42.0	Shut up. Put up and get out. That's right. When I can. Okay. That's right. What you could at any time.
2:54.0	Yeah. Yeah, you could leave tomorrow.
3:01.0	Yeah, I guess I could.
3:05.0	Yeah.
3:10.0	Yeah, I would never ever have my child in a public education.
3:20.0	Thank you.
3:22.0	I've been saying that for years.
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