Now that teachers are more likely than ever to be the path of least resistance in all sorts of ways, won't that just mean folks who flop at everything else will start becoming the only ones likely to wind up associating with the profession?

I made a post some time ago on the Xennial sub about students and things like respect for teachers. One comment that stood out to me had to do with this person teaching their child 'not' to just do things because they're told too; the aim was to learn to question everything. Sounds empowering--to an extent--but when all the kids come with that same mentality, how is the teacher meant to get anything meaningful accomplished? Many aspects of learning can be tedious but 1 it doesn't mean they shouldn't be done and 2 teachers can only do so much. SOme part of the responsibility to try, to be civil, to ask for help when needed and so on should be completely in the hands of the students.

People act like rules, structure, consequences, Etc., are some class of imposition no matter what. Yet 'none' face increased chaos owing to an absence of these things more than teachers themselves.

Ultimately--and as 'solid' teachers jump ship in droves--I feel like the only people who will take this work on will be those least suited to doing it justice.

What are your thoughts on this? Good teachers can make learning--and even 'living' in some cases--feel amazing. But we seem to be depleting a finite resource we may never get back.

Submitted April 12, 2026 at 08:26AM by cherry-care-bear https://ift.tt/BQgtyu2