In addition to having to defend herself to pissed parents, she also has to be on the defense when it comes to her bosses. “My administrator will demand an explanation of why I let so many fail without giving them support, even though I’ve done practically everything short of doing the work for them,” she wrote. It had always been Marburger’s dream to have a classroom of her own; however, in the last two years, she says she’s become completely disillusioned about what being an educator in America really means today. “This is almost all I hear from other teachers as well, and they are leaving the profession in droves,” she wrote. “There is going to be a teacher crisis in this country before too many more years has passed unless the abuse of teachers stops.”
