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WHAT TEACHERS MAKE by Taylor Mali

SO GLAD HE COMIC’D THIS SPEECH.

guys idk if you know the respect i have for teachers

i was always kind of a teacher’s pet, but that’s because my dad is a teacher and i know the woes. i know that acting up in class can make the teacher upset, but while most of the kids don’t have to deal with the fallout, i do. i have to go home and see how angry or sad my dad is because the kids did this, that, and the other, and he can see the consequences and they can’t. i can see how much teaching just plain hurts sometimes, from the low paycheck to watching the kids you’ve taught for eight straight years (he was the band/choir teacher) graduate and move on, to the kids who suffer at home and the kids that bully and the kids that also graduate but, like me, become a miserable failure at life even when he knows they can do better.

so yeah. teachers make a difference. 

^^^rebloggin’ again for you Ann! :’>

I don’t think I was ever a teacher’s pet, but I was always fatigued by trouble students and always just wanted them to shut up so I could focus better, even in the classes I was least interested in— in fact it was probably troublesome students that made me dislike History. Their attitudes affected my own, subconsciously, I’m almost certain of it now. Especially since, my brain not being geared toward absorbing that type of information as readily, I was always in the “Regular" history classes, with Those students. Thus, the aura in the classroom was not conducive to me  learning to appreciate History because of the constant interruption and attitude problems. And the pressure was always against students pursuing information and asking questions because problem students would groan and sigh and make shy, awkward students like myself feel embarrassed to ask questions. Thus I never felt anything other than stupid in History classes, and I think I simply developed a subconscious understanding that it wasn’t a subject I was meant to understand or enjoy.

And teachers have to find a way to help all of us, including the ones who don’t want to be there, despite the negative energy adolescence pumps into the classroom. And especially now having a friend who is now a teacher, I can see how those types of students can really dishearten and frustrate them, because they all do what they do because they are passionate about teaching. And some kids just don’t want to be taught and it can make them feel so shitty. :c it sucks having people mock what you’re passionate about, especially when you’re trying to share that with them.

Teachers are people too. I understood that even as a highschool student, and I never understood why other kids didn’t grasp that too.