It’s no secret that being a teacher is difficult. Taking care of one or two kids is hard enough, but being the only adult in a room full of kids for eight hours a day, five days a week can be a nightmare. Now don’t get us wrong, a lot of teachers find this fulfilling, and to them we give a double-handed high five and a round of applause. But let’s face it, what teachers have to endure each day requires superhuman levels of patience that many of us just don’t have.
For Julie Marburger, a grade-school teacher from Texas, her turning point happened when a parent rudely told her that her son shouldn’t be held responsible for his actions in the classroom. In a Facebook post, Marburger shared photos of her classroom and the disrespectful ways some students have treated it, along with an open letter detailing the kinds of abuse teachers have to deal with on a regular basis. Her post has since gone viral with over 325,000 reactions and over 400,000 shares. In the photos, you can see a piece of chewed gum stuck on the windowsill, a broken bookcase, a chapter book that was ripped in half and a tablet and headphones that were just dumped in a corner. Take a look:

I left work early today after an incident with a parent left me unable emotionally to continue for the day. I have…
Posted by Julie Marburger on Wednesday, March 28, 2018

As a teacher, you’d think that Marburger would have grounds to discipline the students responsible for ...