Jane Morris > Quotes

“When this job feels overwhelming, remind yourself that one day you will die!”
― Jane Morris, Teacher Misery: Helicopter Parents, Special Snowflakes and Other Bullshit

“I’ve been doing this a long time and the best advice I can give you is to treat every student like a sack of shit, and then they will respect you.” At this point, I wasn’t going to argue with her.”
― Jane Morris, Teacher Misery: Helicopter Parents, Special Snowflakes and Other Bullshit

“If a parent is willing to call their adult child’s workplace to advocate for them, it is no surprise that they had harassed teachers and administration until they got what they felt their child deserved. It is a cycle of never-ending entitlement that leads to mediocrity. It starts with a parent pestering a teacher to get an undeserved grade for their child. Then they manipulate their kid’s way into college, or they get into college with grades they didn’t earn. Next, when the kid gets a job for skills and education that look good on paper but weren’t actually merited, they end up losing their job. And so far, parents cannot save a kid from being fired for poor work performance… at least not yet.”
― Jane Morris, Teacher Misery: Helicopter Parents, Special Snowflakes and Other Bullshit

“A kid picked up a chair and threw it across the room. The mom’s response was, ‘Well, he did have an egg for breakfast the other day.’” “A”
― Jane Morris, Teacher Misery: Helicopter Parents, Special Snowflakes and Other Bullshit

“It can be a lot of fun, and inspiring, and sometimes even downright rewarding. But the amount of bullshit far outweighs the good stuff.”
― Jane Morris, Teacher Misery: Helicopter Parents, Special Snowflakes and Other Bullshit

“Millions have been spent on Chromebooks for the mere purpose of taking the PARCC test, a test that 15 states have recently dropped. Meanwhile, we are told that there is a budget crisis and, once again, teachers are warned of frozen salaries and higher rates for health insurance. Due to budget cuts, there are already much larger class sizes and fewer guidance counselors, social workers, teachers’ assistants, librarians, psychologists, social workers, special education teachers, reading specialists, and security guards.”
― Jane Morris, Teacher Misery: Helicopter Parents, Special Snowflakes and Other Bullshit

“I found a list of 135 people who created and revised the Common Core Standards. In all, only seven of the 135 members were actual classroom teachers and no one was a K-3 classroom teacher or had any training in early childhood education.[23]”
― Jane Morris, Teacher Misery: Helicopter Parents, Special Snowflakes and Other Bullshit