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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot  You have got to be kidding!!
Little kids puke, fight, pee in their pants, cry, throw tantrums, eat crayons and you may have to help wipe their little arses after they finish their business in the loo.
They give their teachers hell on the first few days too, screaming and crying and yelling in grief, due to separation anxiety. |
LOL - absolutely! And imagine it when they're doing their crying, whinging, whining in Arabic and you don't speak hardly a word of it, let alone arabic kiddyspeak - there's me going "Hmairm?" "meeya?", "omtik?" (toilet? water? mummy?).
Teaching small kids is a WHOLE order of magnitude greater stress than anything else! Consider this, most parents (who have got rights to discipline their kids) can't control 2 in a supermarket. As a teacher you'll have maybe 20 of them in your 'care' and not only do you have to try and control them but knock some kind of information into their heads too!
A friend of mine who was a good, experienced primary school teacher said it was like having a factory full of products on a production line, that you have to send off the production line fit for sale, but the products keep jumping off the line and running round the factory.
Junior girls spend the whole time whining - "miss he pulled my hair", "miss is this word in this sentence alright" constantly seeking approval for EVERYTHING. It's utterly and completely draining.
Give me a classroom full of yobby 14 year olds taking math or physics any day!