"How to..... be a teacher" (yeah, right...)

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This August, while many college students were eager to get back to classes, I was also eager to get back to college, but an opportunity showed up as an English teacher at the school were I graduated. I had to teach the language to seventh, eighth , and nineth graders. One of those classes was a writing skills class. I had a homeroom and the English Club. Yes, it sounds nice, but...
I realized what it really is to be a teacher. Literally, all the support you get is the room key, your books, and some lousy materials that are not enough to start the semester. For example: a box of chalks (one box's duration is a week or less), one scissors (that gets lost withing the week... and they do not give you another one), one pen ( please...), and so on. And don't dare to ask for chalks or other things in the office, they'll tell you that you have enough for the semester.
Then, the kids. Apparently, my homeroom has big discipline problems in the school. Fights, home problems, learning difficulties, among other things were the day's special. Even though, I tried to my best extent to deal with these situations, I still could not stop the 25 F's that I had to pass in one of my groups. Not to mention the discipline situations inside the classroom.
After all this, I came to a conclusion... being a teacher is like being a parent: there's no real preparation to be one; there's not an instruction booklet that can tell you how to be one. College is not preparing teachers... teachers nowadays have to be psychologists and have the ability to negotiate with students. I think that the classes in college are about application, but little content to use. I really feel that the curriculum should be revised and add psychology and other classes that can complement and preapare the teacher for what it is out there....