Why teachers are so tripped by people? [Not sure exactly what you mean by this - maybe "Why are teachers viewed so negatively by people?]
I am a teacher. I teach children from six years of age to 12 in state schools in Spain. That is my sin as I can tell from the look of some people when I tell them how what I do for my living.
When it comes to teaching or teachers I can see people throw up their hands and shape make an oodd look in their faces like if they were are saying "Another one" or somenthing on like that matter.
I do love my job. My job runs in my veins. My job is part of me because, as I see it, being a teacher is a state of being, not a job, to me. I always talk to my collegues about the way people see us and we really cannot grasp where the problem is.
Are people mad at us because we have two months off?
Are people fed up of us because we have an underpaid job?
Or are people against us because we make their children think?
When some teachers get together they start to talk shop inmmediately; we cannot help it. We really are cornerd concerned about students. We ask for some pieces of advice to try to do our best in class, what it means to do the best for our children.
In my country, to become a teacher, you have to study a lot. Nowadays we have to study a four year degree (and meanwhile we can enroll in some other subjects and get an specialisation).
We are obligated to konow how to speak, write and read in English (B2 level or more).
Then, when we finish, some of us study a master's (in order to have more options in finding a job).
But, here´s the thing: in order to teach in a state school we have to study a "oposicion" [don't know what that is] somenthing like a state exam.
After all of that (time, money and illusion) people still see us like trash or somenthing even worst...
So, my question is WHY?
[I don't know why. People just like to hate?]