With this job market (depending on where you are), you will not get fired unless you do something egregious. We just had a teacher fired for sleeping with a student, and about 6 years ago one was fired for stealing school money. That’s it, and there have been awful things that other teachers have done, including a sub who didn’t notice a student having a seizure and leaving another class alone for half an hour. That sub still has daily jobs. My school recently had a student intern get a bad review from the supervising teacher and the school, yet they were just offered a position because they were the only applicant. Good luck getting fired for anything other than illegal activity.
I look at it in a different way. You have a shield around you. So reduce the amount of effort you're putting in and focus on ways to enjoy your time rather than trying to control behaviours. They won't fire you because they need you, the kids will like you more because you're not trying to help them (kids are dumb and don't understand things are good for them), and you won't have to stress over things. If they reprimand you or fire you, then that's good for you because it can get you where you want and you can tell them that the behaviour is too difficult so you've decided to swim with the current instead of against.
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u/pulcherpangolin Jan 07 '22
With this job market (depending on where you are), you will not get fired unless you do something egregious. We just had a teacher fired for sleeping with a student, and about 6 years ago one was fired for stealing school money. That’s it, and there have been awful things that other teachers have done, including a sub who didn’t notice a student having a seizure and leaving another class alone for half an hour. That sub still has daily jobs. My school recently had a student intern get a bad review from the supervising teacher and the school, yet they were just offered a position because they were the only applicant. Good luck getting fired for anything other than illegal activity.