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Texas teacher's post asking parents to stop 'coddling' kids goes viral

A Bastrop ISD teacher's Facebook post asking parents to stop 'coddling and enabling' their kids has been shared more than 416,000.

A Bastrop ISD teacher's Facebook post asking parents to stop "coddling and enabling" their kids has been shared more than 416,000.

Julie Marburger said she decided to hold a student accountable for his bad behavior in her class on March 28. She called his mother, who Marburger said yelled at her over the phone. The fallout led to a lengthy Facebook post in which Marburger said she left work because she became so upset after the conversation and that she's decided to leave the teaching profession at the end of the school year.

"I had a student who I had an issue with, decided to call his mom while at school," Marburger recalled. "And she was disrespectful and rude to me on the phone in front of her son and I actually had the class with me right there too, and they could hear what she was saying. And it was quite embarrassing."

In her post, Marburger wrote parents are disrespectful and their kids are worse. Then she implores parents to stop coddling and enabling their kids. She included photos from her classroom of torn books thrown around, chewing gum on the window seal and her bulletin board damaged.

"I've had pictures drawn into books: books that I personally bought for myself that students have drawn inappropriate pictures in or inappropriate words in," Marburger said. "Sometimes, I even have students coming and getting things off of my desk, just taking things that don't belong to them."

Marburger teaches 6th-grade, so her students are 11 and 12 years old.

In addition to discussing students in the post, she also described frustrating conditions within Bastrop ISD from an unsupportive administration to not getting any money to help set up her classroom.

Marburger has received supportive messages from people all over the world. She said she will now consider staying in education, and she wants to start a blog with the hope it will inspire people to make changes.

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