I gave my resignation letter yesterday. Fingers crossed for me or some prayers, please

Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
May 13, 2026 4:16am CST
Yes, I need the job but when no right colleague would support me and kids are telling the lies to their parents, then the supposed colleague says she gets the complaints from the parents but won't tell me the names of the parents or children and in person, she acts like everything is cool is just one of the reasons i quit yesterday. Also, some kids raising the voice on me and me telling her, i could tell she didn't have any conversation with them. The kids are half agressive when you don't flatter them, they are commenting all the time, rolling their eyes, asking me 100 times why for things, trying to manipulate me, saying what in a street way, raising the voice. When you let them to use the bathroom, they hop and going slowly on purpose. When i said their behaviour is sad to look at, they laugh and, they boy who was extremely rude yesterday and said multiple times he won't attend my afternoon class anymore; that was true, his last day was yesterday, he did me bad with his beahviour, mocking me and i used one expression in our language when the person is lost. I also punished him with reading a presentation about good manners and yes, he was sighing a lot. When i asked him to sigh less, some girl said he was breathing. All in all, i thought i survived the other day and just when i got on a tram, i got a text from the boy's mother, she would make a complaint to our principal, without listening my side of story. She listened what some kids told her (not naming them) when she picked up the son. The classroom was a mess when i came to teach from the papers on the floor to other things but we managed that but the poor raising and kids being frankly mean,so rude, it's not for me. Especially, when i heard (this is the 3rd grade) that one 4th grader slapped his teacher and many older graders are swearing during the break on halls, even outside and i also saw one pupil peeing near the school bush honestly, i think it's about time to leave this place. I was fair, didn't support laziness and it's obvious the last teacher nursed them, which is maybe okay now and then but all the time, no. These students won't survive in the real world and i wish the real world would crush them cause, you can't be mean and get everything you want. I cried for losing a stable income until June 12 but this wasn't working for me. I felt tense, i kept forgetting essential things like, tram tickets, even my apartment keys and i didn't realise how big the impact it was on me and my health. There were good kids but just a few and i wish only the best to them.
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@snowy22315 (207420)
• United States
13 May
It's tough, but hopefully you will find something better soon.
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• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
13 May
you are right. and i hope the same for me. when the glass is half empty and writing this, i felt ashamed how i was treated, i became aware of the bad things that were happening. thank you.
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@snowy22315 (207420)
• United States
13 May
@valherma00 I don't know why we get in patterns where we tolerate mistreatment. I have had some real issues with that in my life.
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• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
13 May
@snowy22315 i guess it's a need for money cause, everything is so expensive and getting more expensive. i sometimes envy the old times when things were cheaper than today. also, people are less and less human today. apart fro mthat, institutions don't work people, they work for themselves and one rule is for one group of people and another rule is for someone else. and when our health gets damaged, then we quit, sadly.
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• United States
13 May
Wow that sounds like a nightmare and I hope (and yes pray) that you find something much better
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• United States
13 May
@valherma00 a toxic environment isn't healthy for mind or body. Hope the next place is calm and pays well
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• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
13 May
i am also complaing to one school who did't pay me for being a substitute for a colleague. they insist i come only in person and won't email me some sort of documentation for that. they are making things up. i reported them but i have a feeling they would be left untouched. i feel like a loser sometimes. yes, i also felt when i wrote this that i suffered a lot, like i wasn't in my body when all these happened. thank you and i also hope for working where is a good, less toxic environment.
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• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
21h
@Marilynda1225 and answer from a female principal is the best, she is sorry i couldn't manage it. i replied if i was instructed better, told true facts, i would. yes, i also hope for calmness just, i feel in this age and this country when old don't want to go or they bully younger colleagues, parents are untouchable, noone is a friend anymore, it's not that possible but i'll hope for better.thank you.
@AmbiePam (119195)
• United States
13 May
I have dozens of teachers in my family. I don’t think many of them have ever had students that awful. I will pray you get a better job. I know you can’t have perfect because perfect doesn’t exist, but surely there is better out there for you.
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• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
13 May
Thank you.i was really thinking that too.imperfection doesn't exist,i know but there were good sides too.here,there wasn't,any.
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• Philippines
13 May
it is hard to be a teacher for the undisciplined kids at home, and spoiled by doing wrong. i hope you get a new job soon.
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• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
13 May
you are right. they were so undisciplined and wouldn't answer to me on some questions or barely answered to me cause, they were angry at me. it's like i was their slave and not a teacher;they wanted for only them to have fun. i also hope for a new income. thank you. i am also sad for this one school who took andvantage of me; i was a substitute for a colleague 3months ago and i wasn't paid for her class. i thought i would't be paid but in other schools after this one, i found out that this should be paid and now they are making things up i don't have a right documentation and that i can only come in person. why should i come;it's like our jesus coming and being put on the cross. i reported them but i think it would stay the same. i wish them all the worst.
@jstory07 (148392)
• Roseburg, Oregon
23h
Those students are out of control. It is good that you left. Good luck on finding another job.
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• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
21h
when i sent my letter to a female principal, she said, she's sorry i couldn't manage that. i replied that if i was instrcuted well of the situation, then i would manage it. it hurts being jobless again but you're right, it's good i left. each day passed and nothing improved.
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@DianneN (254741)
• United States
8h
I’ve heard complaints about the lack of respect of students towards teachers here. One teacher had a nervous breakdown. I hope that you can find something much better soon.