Teachers Reveal Why They Are Quitting Their Jobs

“Oh, I’m not quitting. I’m just running away from a shooter.”

“Everything but a 1997 Yellow Pages has been banned or taken away.”

“Turns out in real life when you pose as a math teacher to covertly train students for the local battle of the bands, you actually get in a shit ton of trouble.”

“The new district curriculum won’t even let me talk about how I created the universe.”

“A Navy recruiter mistook me for a senior and offered me a pretty great package.”

“There are at least five Twitch streamers in my class who make more than me.”

“For some reason, I was never able to earn the children’s respect.”

“Listen, I’m a Teach for America teacher. I was always going to quit.”

“​Even the low, low pay wasn’t enough to compensate for the threats to my safety.”

“I’m just ready to take my chances on getting gunned down in the private sector.”

“The math was getting to be a little too hard for me.”

“Three strikes law.”

“Students don’t bring you apples nearly as often as mainstream media would have you believe.”

“I get paid way too much money, and I’m starting to feel guilty about it.”

“I just don’t know if lines and shapes are my real passion.”

“Once you experience one school shooting, the next ones start to get stale.”

“I cut a frog open, and it was disgusting. Not doing that shit again.”

“Five-year-olds have no mercy, no capacity for morality. Each day I spend with them, I find myself slipping further from my own humanity.”

“The tantrums, the bad behavior, the lame excuses… I just can’t deal with the parents anymore.”

“I’m switching to a career in healthcare so I can experience the same amount of abuse for slightly higher pay.”

“I tried to stand on the desk, like in Dead Poet Society, but I fell and broke my neck.”

“It’s not that I don’t like kids. It’s more that I’ve grown to hate them.”

“I thought I’d be working with animals, but then I realized that was a veterinarian’s job.”

“Being a human footstool for a billionaire is going to be far less degrading.”

“I’ve finally worked up the nerve to pursue my true passion of waiting tables.”

“My second job offered me a living wage if I came on full-time.”

“I got offered a position doing literally anything else.”