In our fifth and final episode, Josie and Melanie try to determine what the worst part of teaching is. And there are a lot of options to choose from!

References:

https://www.oct.ca/becoming-a-teacher/transition-to-teaching/previous-reports/2021-survey

https://www.nationalcopa.com/post/burnout-disengagement-and-dropout

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/20/31-year-old-former-teacher-now-works-at-costco-and-boosted-her-income-by-50-percent.html#:~:text=Maggie%20Perkins's%20first%20day%20of,I%20quit%2C%E2%80%9D%20she%20says.&text=In%202022%2C%20I%20turned%2030,got%20a%20job%20at%20Costco.

https://www.tiktok.com/@millennialmsfrizz

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/22/teachers-are-in-the-midst-of-a-burnout-crisis-it-became-intolerable.html

https://thewalrus.ca/the-epidemic-of-teacher-burnout/

https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/white-i-quit-my-well-paid-desk-job-and-went-back-to-teaching-heres-what-happened

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.pssbp.ca/wp-content/uploads/Teachers-Meshed-Agreement-2019-2022-FINAL-emailed-for-signatures-March-1-2021-PDF.pdf

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In our penultimate episode we highlight the increasing violence in schools against staff and student, and how teachers are silenced when they ask for help with it.

CW: Violent incidents, including against students and adults, are discussed.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/peel-school-board-tomken-1.6853872
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/peel-school-board-investigating-after-anonymous-letter-alleges-violence-fear-at-mississauga-middle-school/article_bb6eda35-e081-5fba-8d17-5d48c6de2f3a.html#:~:text=The%20anonymous%20letter%2C%20which%20appears,is%20one%20of%20violence%2C%20fear
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/05/24/mississauga-school-violence-peel-board-tomken/
https://twitter.com/MichaelTeper1/status/1659913475420717062
https://nationalpost.com/feature/a-toronto-area-middle-school-is-in-crisis-administrators-pin-the-blame-on-teachers
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/is-progressive-discipline-working-tvdsb-says-yes-1.6442224
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/school-board-responds-to-reports-of
violence-at-saunders-secondary-1.6431023
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/ontario-teacher-violence-schools-policy-1.6439470
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/saunders-school-violence-concerns-1.6425753
https://london.ctvnews.ca/my-son-should-feel-safe-to-go-to-school-parent-makes-plea-to-address-violence-in-schools-1.6230446
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/alarming-new-survey-finds-nearly-80-of-ontario-elementary-teachers-experience-school-violence-says-union/article_e1880d96-e912-5d7d-a0e9-0d151d79c2fb.html#:~:text='Alarming'%20new%20survey%20finds%20nearly,a%20news%20conference%20on%20Monday.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/scared-to-death-to-go-to-school-york-memorial-students-stage-mass-walkout-amid-concerns/article_5c6974c2-7c74-5f55-8253-e0431f203f3f.html
https://www.sudbury.com/beyond-local/it-starts-at-home-ford-weighs-in-on-school-violence-getting-hit-by-his-par

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In this episode, Josie and Melanie take a trip down memory to the "unprecedented time" known as the pandemic lockdowns (*shudder*) and look what effect they had on teaching culture then and since.

References:

https://haldimandpress.com/knife-found-on-jlm-student/#:~:text=CAYUGA%E2%80%94The%20parent%20of%20a,about%20his%20intent%20to%20stab

https://www.thespec.com/news/cayugas-j-l-mitchener-utterly-failed-our-children-after-knife-confiscated/article_2338291d-2122-5da3-884e-6e2fac36a447.html

https://www.thespec.com/news/it-took-a-steak-knife-to-actually-get-the-help-we-needed-says-cayuga-mother/article_7b7b6aeb-feb7-5be1-af96-46949f50810c.html

https://www.thespec.com/news/parent-seeking-anonymity-in-filing-misconduct-complaint-against-j-l-mitchener-educators/article_22b905f5-8e8c-59d0-b4f8-3f16ddadbd17.html

https://madeinca.ca/internet-statistics-canada/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/cross-country-rallies-against-gender-ideology-in-schools-meet-with-counter-protests-1.6569373

https://capforcanada.com/ontario-premier-says-no-to-lgbt-indoctrination-in-public-schools/

https://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.php?ID=195635

https://pressprogress.ca/canadas-far-right-is-planning-a-convoy-to-toronto-to-save-the-children-its-already-spinning-out-of-control/

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/doug-ford-takes-aim-at-ontario-school-boards-over-indoctrinating-students-on-gender-identity/article_48470d40-c925-5f1d-a757-24f9062d1b78.html

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-631-x/11-631-x2022001-eng.htm

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canadians-becoming-more-divided-over-covid-19-and-politics-survey-says-1.5846868

https://globalnews.ca/news/6859636/ontario-coronavirus-timeline/

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In this episode, Josie and Melanie discuss the very real repercussions that gossip and rumours can have on educators and the teaching culture.

Content warning: this episode includes discussion of suicide.

https://www.thefp.com/p/a-racist-smear-a-tarnished-career-suicide

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/richard-bilkszto-tdsb-audio-kojo-dei

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/richard-bilkszto-wont-be-the-last-victim-of-the-diversity-industrial-complex

https://hbr.org/2022/12/the-failure-of-the-dei-industrial-complex

https://nypost.com/2023/08/05/dei-teacher-mocked-principal-richard-bilkszto-who-later-killed-himself-audio/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/toronto-principal-suicide-weaponized-rhetoric-1.6928122

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/struggling-principal-richard-bilkszto-needed-teaching-not-admonishing/article_fb1109c6-282c-5bcc-84f0-e7c51623da2d.html

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-colleagues-concerned-about-staff-safety-after-suicide-of-retired/

https://kojoinstitute.com/

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Co-hosts Josie and Melanie introduce the new podcast "I Have Some Concerns: The Terrible Truth About Teaching" by highlighting what teaching and mothering have in common. And no, it isn't just that you're surrounded by children and exhausted.

References:

The Education Act, 1990 https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90e02#BK1

“Policy Trends in Education 1990-2006” Anderson & Jaafar, 2006 chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://icec.oise.utoronto.ca/PDFfiles/FinalPolicyNarrative.pdf.pdf pp 40-46

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