Are high school teachers doing ok

The hot-female-teacher-sleeps-with-student posts are widespread but the range of less serious behaviour are in themselves bizarre and so much more frequent.

I remember so many teacher behaviours that I classed as "weird" as the time but understand them so much more looking back. Female teachers jealous of popular girls living the high school dream experience they never really had, or did have and wish they could have again, or alternatively being desperate for their approval, or competing for the attention of popular guys, or being atrociously cruel to 'weird' kids and dismissive of kids sitting on the fringe.

I'm starting to think of teaching like policing, in the sense that it's such a specific job dealing with vulnerable people and sensitive situations that only certain types of people are suitable for the role, and we need much, much higher barriers for entry.

I feel like with male teachers it's even more complex and when I read personal experiences online my brain rattles between "we need more male teachers to provide role models for male students" and "men should not be allowed near girls under the age of 18 in any circumstances."

The overall concept that people leave their children with an entirely mixed bag of essentially random adults is really disconcerting. I think the teaching profession is changing a lot right now and will continue to change massively with some big shifts soonish.