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TEACHING IS SUPER HARD!☆ !ההוראה היא סופר קשה! בואו להראות את הכרת הטוב למחנכים שלנו! (heb st) (12)

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Avi Fishoff — TWiSTED Parenting

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[music] >> One of the most underpaid jobs >> [music] >> and difficult jobs is to be a melamed in our day. You have a huge classroom, 25 or 30 kids. One of them has ADD, one of them has ADHD, one of them has OCD, one of them the parents are getting divorced, the [music] other one is traumatized and abused and all kinds of problems that we know exist in in the classrooms. And how on earth is Rebbe supposed to teach? Then you have a couple of kids that they have very quick. And then when you repeat it for the other kids, they get very bored. And then the parents complain, "Hey, my kid's bored. You got to keep up with the curriculum. What's going on?" Then you got some kids that need P3, other kids need this and need that. You have so many kids and everyone has to be a ben yochid by the teacher. I mean, it's it's incredibly hard. A psychologist gets paid $600 to do an evaluation on one kid at a time. This Rebbe has to do a constant evaluation on 30 kids cuz the the matzavim changes throughout and you can never get it wrong. And you got to do that while you're teaching a curriculum and not getting paid enough money to live well. It's really, really super hard. And yet

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  1. 0:01[music] >> One of the most underpaid jobs >> [music] >> and difficult jobs is to…
  2. 0:31complain, "Hey, my kid's bored. You got to keep up with the curriculum. What's going on?"…
  3. 1:32fighting his older brothers that are up? What is going on? You have to be right…
  4. 2:33I didn't know what to do. So, I asked the menahelis. And the menahelis said, "Oh,…
  5. 3:34she's struggling with. How could you tell a neshama, "Go out of my classroom. I can't…
  6. 4:34remember you got me a drink of water yesterday? Can you do it again? I love…
  7. 5:04she knocked on the door, disturbed the class, asked my daughter, "Can you come out a…
  8. 6:05What should we do? I said, "What's the question?" Well, some people say that you can't…
  9. 7:06through such a hard time." What is it that we lose our compassion? These are human…
  10. 8:06as human beings. Remember, your kids are also going to have rebbeim. I work with rebbeim…

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