Julie Marburger is a middle-school teacher from Cedar Creek, Texas. She decided to leave teaching at the end of 2018, but an incident during the school year was so emotionally-scarring that the thought of continuing on felt impossible.
Julie had spoken with one of her students who had been misbehaving, only to take a phone call from his outraged mother during the school day. Julie claimed the mother spoke to her in an incredibly "disrespectful and rude" way. Apparently, her entire class heard the embarrassing exchange.
The teacher was so rattled by the phone call that she took to Facebook to vent about the level of disrespect she has seen at the hands of her students and their parents. She accompanied her Facebook post with seven photos taken from inside her classroom. In one photo, a bookshelf is completely destroyed. In another, papers are strewn about the room. Books are torn apart, tape is peeled off the walls… and the list goes on and on.
But Julie made sure to place most of the blame on the parents. "People absolutely HAVE to stop coddling and enabling their children," Julie wrote. "It's not fair to society, and more importantly, is not fair to the children to teach them this is okay. It will not serve them towards a successful and happy life."
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Julie's post was shared hundreds of thousands of times. At first, she feared critics would attack her… but that's not what happened.
[H/T: ABC News]
This story first appeared on LittleThings in April 2018.
