A middle-school teacher who took to Facebook to vent her frustration with the perceived bad behavior of students and parents has struck a nerve with her now-viral post. 
 
 “I have had responses from people literally all over the world,” Julie Marburger, who teaches in Cedar Creek, Texas, said in an interview that aired today on “Good Morning America.” 
 
 Marburger wrote a lengthy post on Facebook last month after an incident with a parent left her, she said, “unable emotionally to continue for the day.” 
 
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 “I have already made the decision to leave teaching at the end of this year, and today, I don't know if I will make it even that long,” she wrote. “Parents have become far too disrespectful, and their children are even worse.” 
 
 She continued, “Administration always seems to err on the side of keeping the parent happy, which leaves me with no way to do the job I was hired to do ... teach kids.” 
 
 Marburger also shared seven photos that she said depict the disregard students have for the school and personal property. The photos show books astray, papers left on the floor and a book that appears to be torn apart. 
 
 “We've had pictures drawn into books, books that I personally bought for myself, that students have drawn inappropriate pictures in, or inappropriate words in,” she said. “Sometimes I have students even coming and getting things off of my desk, just taking things that don't belong to them.” 
 
 Marburger, 45, said the incident that compelled her to write the post included a mother who she believed was disrespectful to her in front of her class. 
 
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 “I had a student who I had an issue with and decided to call his mom while at school and she was disrespectful and rude to me on the phone in front of her son,” she said. “And I actually had the class right there with me too and they could hear what she was saying and it was quite embarrassing.” 
 
 Marburger’s post has been shared more than 400,000 times and drawn dozens of comments. 
 
 She also wrote on Facebook about expecting to hear from parents after sending out report cards, while not hearing from them during the weeks and weeks of assignments leading up to the progress reports. 
 
 "People absolutely HAVE to stop coddling and enabling their children. It's a problem that's going to spread through our society like wildfire," she wrote. "It's not fair to society, and more importantly, is not fair to the children to teach them this is okay. It will not serve them towards a successful and happy life." 
 
 Marburger said the attention paid to her Facebook post surprised her, but the reaction from parents, teachers and administrators at her school has been positive. 
 
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 “I was worried after this kind of blew up all over Facebook that people would be offended by it, and what I found is that I'm getting more support now,” she said. 
 
 Marburger told “GMA” she is still weighing her options when it comes to her future in teaching. 
 
 Marburger's Facebook post went viral as teachers in several states are calling for more support in the classroom and increases in pay. 
 
 Classes remain canceled today in Oklahoma's biggest school districts, for instance, as teachers walk out for a seventh day, according to The Associated Press. 
 
 Teachers in West Virginia ended a nine-day strike last month after the governor signed a bill that gave the educators a 5 percent pay hike. 
 
 Ericka Souter, the editor of mom.me, a parenting website, said parents should look at their relationship with their child's teacher as a "partnership." 
 
 "We’re overworked. Some of us are juggling multiple kids, multiple jobs," Souter said of parents today. "It’s easy to say, ‘This is the teacher’s responsibility. This is their job those eight hours during the day,’ but that is not how it works." 
 
 She added, "We have to take a part in our kids’ education as well." 
 
 Souter offered three tips for parents to build stronger relationships with teachers to ensure their children gets "the best educational experience possible." 
 
 1. You have to be involved: You have to ask children questions, making sure they’re doing everything they should be doing and that they know you are interested in their behavior at school and how they’re doing there . 
 
 2. You also have to be proactive: When the teacher sends an email and says there is something wrong, schedule a conference and get involved and make sure you’re working together. 
 
 3. Your kid should know there are consequences: You want to make sure your kid knows that bad behavior is unacceptable. ||||| Craig Troxell steps precariously across a customer’s roof, marking hail damage from yet another Oklahoma storm. He still smells of the freshly cut grass from the swanky side of town, where he had just mowed lawns to make a few extra dollars. 
 
 But, Troxell, 50, isn’t a landscaper nor roof salesman by trade. He’s a full-time high school science teacher who works four jobs to make ends meet. 
 
 “Teacher morale gets worse every year,” said Troxell, who also drives a school bus before and after school. “I’ve heard a lot of my (teacher) acquaintances walk away and get a different job. They don’t want to do it anymore.” 
 
 Oklahoma is among the bottom three states for teacher salaries, where educators often work about 10 years before reaching the $40,000 salary mark. And, they haven’t gotten a raise from the state in 10 years. 
 
 While educators nationwide have seen slight paycheck bumps over the past decade, when adjusted for inflation, teachers have actually lost 3 percent of their income from 2006 to 2016, according to the National Education Association. 
 
 Recently, the Oklahoma teachers’ union called for $10,000 teacher raises, $5,000 raises for support staff and more than $200 million for education funding. 
 
 Lawmakers agreed on an average teacher raise of $6,100, $1,250 for support staff and a $50 million increase in education funding – a measure Gov. Mary Fallin signed into law Thursday. 
 
 But, many teachers said it’s not enough. So, on Monday, Troxell and thousands of other teachers will walk out – prompting some schools to shut down indefinitely. 
 
 “We’re at the end of the rope,” Troxell said. 
 
 He’s far from alone. Several teachers told CNN they’re working multiple jobs in food delivery, retail, rideshare driving, restaurants and even surrogate pregnancy to pay the bills. Some now rely on a food bank to feed their own children. 
 
 The teacher with six jobs 
 
 Almost every morning, Jonathan Moy’s two daughters ask him the same heartbreaking question: “Are we going to see you today?” 
 
 He gets visibly emotional thinking about how many days he tells them no. 
 
 “It’s really tough when your daughters get sad because you tell them you’re not going to see them,” said Jonathan, 40. “And, it almost breaks your heart, because it’s not their fault. It’s not my fault. It’s the situation that we’re in.” 
 
 Jonathan teaches high school algebra, drives a school bus in the afternoon, coaches football and wrestling, umpires Little League baseball and drives for rideshare services. 
 
 All of that combined, Jonathan said, brings home about $36,000 a year after taxes. 
 
 “Last night, I drove Lyft and Uber for six, seven hours,” Jonathan said. “When you have to do that to help supplement your income, it’s tough when you don’t get home when your kids go to bed.” 
 
 But, he fights off the exhaustion by the time the bell rings at Yukon High School, just west of Oklahoma City. As 32 teenagers fill his classroom, Jonathan’s demeanor is as cheerful as the yellow and blue lights strung all across his ceiling. 
 
 “Half of teaching is having them just enjoy coming into school,” Jonathan said. “If you can actually get them to enjoy coming into your classroom with your atmosphere, your jokes or just having a good time, that’s half the battle.” 
 
 When explaining a new algebra concept, Jonathan draws analogies to jelly beans and tacos. He plays ‘Hotel California’ and ‘Roll With It’ as students practice factoring polynomials. 
 
 Jonathan’s unorthodox style has paid off. 
 
 “I was looking at your STAR (standardized) test we took,” he told his class of mostly freshmen. “You started the year at a 7th grade level. Now, you’re above a 12th.” 
 
 Freshman Zach Ennis said Jonathan has made algebra easier to learn. 
 
 “I really like him. He’s a really good teacher. He explains stuff really good,” Ennis said. 
 
 Ennis said he supports his teacher walking out next week, even though he might have to make up school days in the summer. 
 
 “It’s kind of sad that he has to do that many jobs,” Ennis said. “He should be able to concentrate just on teaching.” 
 
 Jonathan said he wants to keep teaching in Oklahoma, where he was born and raised. But, he and his wife, Kendra Moy, who’s an elementary school teacher, can’t understand why educators in their state are paid so little compared to neighboring Texas and Arkansas. 
 
 “The salary in Fort Worth (Texas) is starting at $51,000 to work at Fort Worth public schools,” Jonathan said. “In Oklahoma, the starting pay is $31,000. And, even if you’ve been teaching 25, 30 years, it’s really tough to get to that level of income as a teacher.” 
 
 Despite their meager incomes, the Moys said they spend a combined $2,000 on their classrooms each year – including crayons and glue sticks for Kendra’s 3rd grade students. At her school, the entire student body qualifies for free or reduced lunch. 
 
 Their 10-year-old daughter, Karlie, said she wishes her dad could go to more of her basketball and softball games. But, she understands why he keeps teaching and working so many jobs. 
 
 “I just want him to do what he likes,” she said. “He’s just trying to help our family out.” 
 
 The teacher who’s also a surrogate mother 
 
 When Allyson Kubat started teaching at Mustang High School, the school had no debate program. 
 
 Just three years after launching one, Kubat’s getting ready to take her undefeated debate team to the most elite tournament this June. 
 
 “We’re going to nationals this year, which is kind of crazy,” said Kubat, 29. 
 
 It will be her final act as a teacher. 
 
 “I decided, as hard as it is, that next year I’m not going to be teaching anymore,” Kubat said. 
 
 She realized the 60 to 90 hours a week she works to support her kids meant she rarely got to see her kids. The epiphany came when her 9-year-old daughter called her after school one day. 
 
 “She said, ‘Mom, are you coming home today or are you going back to work?’ Because I leave work (at the school) and I go to my second job, or my third job and I don’t get home until she’s in bed or almost in bed,” Kubat said. 
 
 Kubat’s other jobs include event coordinating, food delivery and surrogate motherhood – a venture that puts a significant strain on her body but pays more than her teaching salary of about $33,000. 
 
 “One of my students asked, ‘So, what’s your other job?’ Because the kids in this state know that their teachers are not just teachers,” she said. “They know that we have to do something else to survive.” 
 
 Her husband, Clint, is an office manager who doesn’t make much more than his wife’s teaching salary. Before she started her second surrogate pregnancy this week, he said, the couple had already budgeted for that income. 
 
 After this school year, Kubat will become a full-time event planner – a bittersweet move, given how passionately she loves teaching. 
 
 “It is hard to give up what I’ve worked so hard to become,” Kubat said. 
 
 But, she’s tired of sacrificing crucial family time for teaching. 
 
 “It’s time to stop being a martyr,” she said. 
 
 The teacher with 2 degrees and 2 mall jobs 
 
 Shontée Branton has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in early childhood education. But, when she gets to the checkout lane at the grocery store, she has to turn around. 
 
 “In my mind, I’m like ‘What do I need to put back?’ Because I know I can’t afford all of this,” said the 1st-grade teacher at Epperly Heights Elementary. “Maybe I want the strawberries, but I can make it without.” 
 
 Branton, who’s been teaching for nine years, said she makes about $36,000 a year. 
 
 She supplements that by tutoring, teaching summer school and working at Macy’s – both on the retail floor and in the human resources office. 
 
 “Normally, I leave from the school and go straight to Macy’s and clock in,” she said. ‘”There’s times I leave my house at 7 in the morning, and I don’t come home until 10 o’clock at night.” 
 
 That’s when her 3rd-floor apartment looks more like a mountain summit. 
 
 “I literally come home and sit in my car for 30 minutes because I can’t muster the strength to go up the stairs,” she said. 
 
 Branton said she’s thinking about moving to Texas, where a teacher with her experience and education can earn about $20,000 more a year. But, she feels a calling to teach in Del City, where she grew up and where all the students at her school qualify for free or reduced lunch. 
 
 “I grew up with a single-parent home; both parents struggled with drug abuse,” she said. “When I see those kids, I see myself. And, I had a teacher or two who believed in me.” 
 
 Branton said she’s walking out Monday not just for teachers’ raises, but for another key demand: more funding for education in the state. She said she never wants to teach an overstuffed class of 34 students with only 25 textbooks again. 
 
 “A lot of people are saying we’re walking out on our kids. And, that’s been one of the most hurtful things because we feel like we’re walking for our children,” Branton said. “People are expecting us to do a job without the proper resources. And, not only is it not fair to educators, it’s not fair to the kids.” 
 
 So, what if she had to choose one or the other – increasing teachers’ salaries by $10,000 or adding $200 million in funds for statewide education? 
 
 “It would have to be the kids. I mean, that’s non-negotiable,” Branton said. “Yes, I need more money. I’m tired of working multiple jobs. But, in the grand scheme of things, if we educate these kids, then that’s better for society.” 
 
 If neither of those demands are fully met, Branton said, Oklahoma could lose yet another teacher. 
 
 “If it’s not passed, I probably will leave,” she said. “It would be the hardest choice.” 
 
 The rookie teacher and waitress 
 
 By 8 a.m., Jennifer Winchester is teaching language arts to 5th graders. By 8 p.m., she’s hoisting trays of enchiladas at a Mexican restaurant. 
 
 As a first-year teacher, Winchester “always understood” she would struggle financially. 
 
 “In college, they would show us the pay increments… from zero to 25 years,” Winchester said. 
 
 She said a guest speaker came into her college class and “literally begged us to stay in Oklahoma,” telling prospective teachers to think of the kids and realize “it’s not their fault.” 
 
 So, Winchester pursued her passion, even if it meant moonlighting as a server to help pay the bills. 
 
 “I can remember, back in the 4th grade, my teacher told my mom at a parent-teacher conference, ‘If she doesn’t become a teacher, I’ll be very disappointed.’ Even in the classroom, I’d help other students,” Winchester said. 
 
 Now, as a professional teacher, she again finds herself going the extra mile for students. Despite her $31,000 teaching salary, she spent about $1,200 getting her classroom in shape for this school year, buying new shelves and books and replacing worn-out desks. 
 
 “I tried to stop tracking those receipts, because it depresses me,” she said. 
 
 Winchester’s long-term goal is to be a high school counselor. But, she doesn’t want to take on a master’s degree in counseling until she’s paid off her $23,000 in student loans. 
 
 For now, she’s hoping her nearly 10-year-old car “with as many dents as you can find in it” doesn’t break down, since that could spell financial disaster. 
 
 She fantasizes about owning a slightly nicer car one day. 
 
 “My goal is to have automatic windows and locks,” she said. 
 
 The state superintendent’s response 
 
 Joy Hofmeister said the teachers’ frustration is justified. 
 
 “Our teachers are right – they have been underpaid,” the state superintendent said. “We know that the frustration is high, that it’s something that comes after a decade-long reduction to public education funding.” 
 
 But, “the legislature can’t reverse in one bill the cuts that have come over a decade.” 
 
 She said the main reason why it’s been so difficult to increase spending for teachers and education is because, in 1992, the state constitution was changed to require a supermajority approval – 75 percent of the legislature – before taxes could be raised. 
 
 “It’s been 28 years since Oklahoma has raised taxes,” Hofmeister said. “We’ve been operating with the same dollars as 2008 but with more than 50,000 more students.” 
 
 She said it’s “unconscionable” some teachers work three to six jobs to make ends meet. 
 
 He’s an algebra teacher in Oklahoma. And a bus driver. And a Little League umpire. And he drives for Uber and Lyft. All because he says his teaching salary isn’t enough to support his family https://t.co/6MunSrq8BA pic.twitter.com/eu1ajmE3Su — CNN (@CNN) April 1, 2018 
 
 “Our teachers deserve better,” she said. “And, that was answered with this historic teacher pay raise. This is an important step forward. But, it’s not the only thing that is needed.” 
 
 The food bank that serves teachers 
 
 Lori Decter Wright admits there’s a stereotype about those who rely on food banks. Maybe they work at fast-food restaurants. Maybe they got hit with an unexpected medical bill. 
 
 Then, starting around 2015, she noticed a shocking trend: teachers, including some with master’s degrees, also needed supplies of cereal, canned vegetables and beans. 
 
 “We have teachers near the poverty level,” said Decter Wright, executive director of Kendall Whittier, Inc. – a ministry that runs an emergency food pantry in Tulsa. “I really had to start asking the question ‘What is going on in Oklahoma that full-time, working professional teachers have to rely on services like ours to make ends meet?” 
 
 Michael Turner is one of the teachers who went to the food pantry, embarrassed that he needed assistance. 
 
 “You’re used to taking care of yourself. No one likes to ask for help, and that’s pretty tough,” said Turner, a recently divorced father of a special needs daughter. 
 
 Turner said he “answered a call to action” when he became a special needs teacher. 
 
 “There was a big push in the state of Oklahoma to hire veterans to teach special ed at the middle school level,” he said. “It’s very, very difficult to be a teacher… I knew that it was hard, but teaching today is much more difficult.” 
 
 And, when he comes home to his own child, he faces the guilt of seeing a kitchen pantry with empty shelves. 
 
 Turner said he’s grateful for the food bank’s assistance and regrets not reaching out for help months earlier. 
 
 “I always fought the notion that I would be the one asking for services, asking for help,” he said. “I’d much rather be giving it.” ||||| Every school year, elementary school students are faced with new challenges. 
 
 They have to make new friends, get to know new teachers and learn how to juggle more complex courses. 
 
 But there’s at least one stressful thing second-graders at Godley Elementary School in Texas won’t have to worry about this year: homework. 
 
 Brandy Young teaches 2nd grade at Godley Elementary School in Godley, Texas. godleyisd.net 
 
 Brandy Young, a second-grade teacher at the school, passed out a letter to every parent at a “Meet the Teacher Night” ahead of the start of the school year to explain her new homework policy -- or should we say, no-homework policy. 
 
 A pleased parent posted a photo of the letter on her Facebook page, and it went viral with more than 59,000 shares. 
 
 “Brooke is loving her new teacher already!” Samantha Gallagher captioned the picture. 
 
 The mother of 7-year-old Brooke was thrilled to know that her daughter won’t be overwhelmed with homework this year. 
 
 “There will be no formally assigned homework this year,” Brandy Young explained in the letter. “Rather, I ask you spend your evenings doing things that are proven to correlate with student success. Eat dinner as a family, read together, play outside, and get your child to bed early.” 
 
 The teacher said homework just wasn’t working for her classroom anymore. So, she decided to make meaningful change. 
 
 “[Students] work hard all day. When they go home they have other things they need to learn there,” Young told CBS News. “I’m trying to develop their whole person; it’s not beneficial to go home and do pencil and paper work.” 
 
 Samantha Gallagher posts a photo of a new homework policy her second grader received from her teacher. Samantha Gallagher/Facebook 
 
 Dozens of people praised Young’s view on homework, Gallagher included. 
 
 “Finally more teachers are catching on to this!” one Facebook user commented. 
 
 “Hopefully this will change some things,” another wrote. 
 
 Gallagher is looking forward to the new routine. 
 
 “We’re happy that at the end of a long school day she’ll get to come home and unwind and be a kid... go outside to play, make new friends, spend more time as a family,” Gallagher said. 
 
 Young, who is a parent herself, wants to bring more families together. 
 
 The Godley Independent School District is a district of innovation, following The Leader in Me school model, Young explained. 
 
 “Our superintendent really encouraged us to be innovators,” Young said. “Whether or not it’s popular, I just wanted to see if it would work. You can’t know if it’s gonna work unless you try it.” 
 
 Several other teachers within the district are also considering taking a similar “no homework” approach. And Young is happy to hear it. 
 
 “For any teacher considering anything that might benefit their students I say go for it; if something doesn’t work, change it,” she said.
– Julie Marburger had had it—and then she reached a new level of fed-up. The 45-year-old Texas middle school teacher has decided to give up teaching at the end of the school year, but in a March 28 Facebook post, she writes that she didn't know if she would "make it even that long." She explains she had to leave work early that day "after an incident with a parent left me unable emotionally to continue." And it wasn't an anomaly. "Parents have become far too disrespectful," their kids are worse, and administrators just want to keep parents happy. Yet Marburger, who teaches in Cedar Creek, anticipated dealing with more super unhappy parents soon. Reports cards were being issued later in the week, and almost half her students are failing because of missing assignments. She called and emailed parents to try to turn things around, to no avail. "Now I'm probably going to spend my entire week next week fielding calls and emails from irate parents, wanting to know why I failed their kid." The root of the issue is that parents are "coddling and enabling their children," and it has to stop. Ditto the disrespect. "Most parents can't stand to spend more than a couple hours a day with their kid, but we spend 8 with yours and 140 others just like him. Is it too much to ask for a little common courtesy and civil conversation?" Her post has been shared more than 420,000 times, and she tells Good Morning America she was worried people might take offense. Instead, she's found "more support," as says she's exploring her options in terms of her teaching future. (This teacher's post about a broken chair also got a big reaction.)