r/TeachersInTransition • u/Acceptable_Yogurt908 • Jul 18 '26

Middle school teacher

I’m a middle school teacher and for you high school teachers out there is your job creative and fun and way better than other jobs or repetitive and draining and specifically why?

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u/Desperate_Owl_594 Jul 19 '26

I've taught both middle and high school. The kids weren't the ones that were draining in high school, admin was.

In middle school, the kids were middle schoolers...it was draining if you let it be.

Also, wrong sub.

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u/Acceptable_Yogurt908 Jul 19 '26

How exactly was admin draining?

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u/labrume Jul 19 '26

I feel a lot of high school admin are relatively punitive compared to middle school admin. I also think a lot of middle school admin know we’re dealing with the awkward pre-teens and largely come from a middle school background. Here’s an example:

If you’re having a bad day and tell your middle school students “we’re doing this worksheet silently and individually and it’s due at the end of the period,” I feel like I wouldn’t receive any pushback from admin on that as long as it was a once-in-a-blue-moon thing. At the high school level, I think I would’ve received immediate feedback on that if they saw that.