Hop-hop.

In eleventh grade, while I was homeschooled: the English teacher never showed up at my house (although he was required to do so and received a bonus for it), but he gave me a failing grade in my report card.

I should have complained about it. If the principal hadn't helped, the department of education would have. They would have given everyone a hard time for something like that.

I understood a long time ago where such teachers come from. Not a single (or almost none) self-respecting person would go to school while "scum" is in charge. So they fill the gaps with whoever they can find...

A good teacher will have excellent results even in a class with mentally challenged children and teenagers. The problem is that not everyone is good at dealing with schoolchildren, and our smart principals prefer mediocre teachers who get by with good grades through cheating and flattery to qualified workers. And such characters really have no place in school, because at the first sign of difficulty, they give up and start complaining about all sorts of nonsense, instead of teaching children.

Well, in general, I THINK that the low popularity of the profession is largely due to the low salary and the general unwillingness to engage in such activities (in addition to the social aspect, there are other factors).

As funny as it may seem, in our Russia, teachers can earn quite good money, plus a decent social package, and you can retire comfortably at the age of forty-five if you work as a teacher for 20 years. There are many benefits and perks, but there is also a lot of hassle with various professional development courses, inspections, and other nonsense that sometimes simply discourages people from working. And I won't even mention the rare cases of abnormal students and their even more inadequate parents; you don't just want to work with them, you want to tell them to go to hell. But you have to control yourself and show wonders of diplomacy and tactics.

a) Schoolchildren bully each other during breaks and after lessons.
b) During lessons, they interfere with each other by throwing/spitting paper or poking each other in the back with something, such as a compass.
c) They interfere with the teacher in every way if the teacher does not have enough "character".
d) A significant number of teachers do not know how or do not want to teach.
f) Individual differences between students are not taken into account at all, and it is impossible to do so given the above.

Everything here is true.

e) The school curriculum itself is outdated and not optimized; the priority is placed on instilling patriotism rather than raising the average level of education in the country.

Well, in Russia now, they are trying to radically change everything. The Federal State Educational Standards and other nonsense; now there are more requirements. Plus, they want to achieve initiative among schoolchildren, which would encourage them to seek out most of the knowledge on their own, so that it would be easier and better for smart children to study at the institute, and ordinary children would go to technical schools after the ninth grade. The problem is that it is not so easy to implement this with self-study (try to make the average student in the lower grades engage in self-education in almost the entire school curriculum), and because of this, they risk ruining the lives of many capable but lazy children.

By the way, I enjoyed studying for a Special Psychologist at the institute. Yes, there was a lot of writing and theory required. For example, I hated everything related to anatomy. No matter how much I read and listened, I still didn't understand anything, and when they gave me a C on the exam just because I couldn't draw the diagrams from memory (and I can't draw, especially anatomical parts, and my schematic-correct drawings somehow don't appeal to anyone), I realized that I would never deal with anatomy again, and it's better to get a C for doing nothing than to strain myself and get a D, just for laughs, and then retake it for a C, because "we don't give good grades for retakes, even if you get an A."
But almost all the psychological disciplines went well for me. Especially those where we only wrote down the main points that we needed to rely on in case of anything, and we perceived the rest of the material by ear.
And I really like it in graduate school. Now, almost all the teachers just give lectures, in which we only write down some important points, and most of the information is perceived by ear, and most importantly, students are given the opportunity to have a full-fledged dialogue with the teacher on the topic, which also helps to consolidate knowledge if you participate in it. And the seminars are interesting because instead of reading from a notebook/paper, they ask us to think and share our point of view on various issues, supporting these knowledge with various facts. Of course, I don't know what will happen on the tests and exams; they will probably make us suffer in every way.