>>73770787Children are definitely good at telling what a person is like based on vibes. It takes someone supremely fucked up to break that detection they have, or someone who spends a LOT of time with them in settings that build up false expectations. Learn about that stuff in the mandated reporter training.
I will say, though: If you get a BAD kid, teaching is hell on Earth.
The girl I work with? Angel, cute even if she is special ed, everyone loves her, and earnestly tries to be smart even in spite of her own shortcomings. Has the drive to be great. But there's another kid in the same class that, the one time I worked with him, literally shit himself on purpose to get out of having to do single-digit addition problems (that he was intensely ashamed of not being able to do, but also entirely unwilling to learn how to do them).
So it's a crapshoot of what kind of kid you end up working with, and full classroom teachers get the whole deck of cards to work with.
