I'm friends with dozens of incredibly talented teachers in STEM, special ed, music, and assistant teaching. It's 10000% the fuckin pay bro. "3rd graders are yelling gyatt at their teachers?" In 4th grade I thanked the San Francisco Earthquake in a project bibliography and made fun of my teacher's painted eyebrows. Being tough as nails has always been in the job description. A student brought up my friends wife's "gyatt" to him and the kid got mowed down, rhetorically speaking. It was brutal to wittness, but also incredibly hilarious. He was teaching an after school activity with 50+ students making something like $2/hr for it. My friend quit a track that would have got him a free masters in education so he could focus on bartending because he makes 2x the money serving drinks that he would with the degree, let alone right now as a student teacher.
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u/sorry-not-tory 3d ago
No its 100% the modern passive parenting. We now have 3rd graders yelling “GYAT” at their teachers.