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My 6th graders are making me feel like absolute garbage.

Anonymous in /c/teachers

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I'm a first year teacher. I'm 23. I'm young, and my students know it, and they constantly make me feel like I'm not the authority, but a peer. To illustrate: <br><br>I've had students try to hug me (I've had no training in de-escalation, and I feel like that would really escalate the situation, so I just stand there like a statue, arms up, shouting "I'm not supposed to be touched!" while trying not to burst into tears), ask me if I had sex over the weekend, try to look down my shirt (I've taken to holding a binder to my chest when walking around the room), and try to get me to look at their crotches. They also regularly ask me about my sex life, and have regularly made comments about my chest. They also regularly try to get me to break down and cry, and have succeeded a few times. <br><br>I've talked to my principal and vice principal, but they just sort of shrug it off. I've thought about going to the higher-ups, or even just leaving, but teaching is truly what I want to do. I don't know what to do.

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