A primary school teacher who said she was beaten and sexually taunted by her students has fired back at claims she has the ‘easiest’ job on Earth.
Gold Coast educator Chelsea Rose described the ‘most traumatising day’ of her career in a video posted to social media on Tuesday.
She posted the video in response to a comment from a TikTok user who described her role as the ‘easiest job on Earth’.
‘The day started like most days where a specific child came into the room every day with their metal drink bottle and a ruler… and they would bash it and make the loudest noise,’ Ms Rose said.
‘This day they decided to put their drink bottle (in front of their groin) and start shaking it, making the, you know, (masturbation) motion.
‘They then opened the lid, let the water spray everywhere and said, ‘I just (ejaculated) all over you’.’
Some time later, the student returned with a dead bird which they, along with other students, proceeded to throw at Ms Rose and some students.
‘And if you thought that was traumatising enough, I’m not even at the most traumatising part of the story,’ she said.
Chelsea Rose (pictured) recounted her ‘most traumatising’ day as a primary school teacher
The woman’s TikTok was revealed as thousands of teachers went on strike in Queensland
Shaken by the morning’s events, Ms Rose was marking assessments in a separate room when a student entered and demanded she get them a toy.
‘This kid looked at me and said: ‘If you don’t get me this toy, I’m about to get angry at you’,’ she said.
After returning from speaking with the child’s teacher, Ms Rose claimed the student began ‘laying into’ her with punches to her face, chest and stomach.
Under the belief she was unable to defend herself due to ‘restrictive practices’, Ms Rose said she had to ‘stand there and cop it’.
‘The child hit me so hard and that many times that they ended up actually breaking one of my ribs,’ she said.
Ms Rose said the child was suspended for 20 days before returning to her regular classes for the remainder of the year.
She posted the video to commemorate a historic series of walkouts across Queensland on Wednesday as part of the state’s first teachers strike since 2009.
More than 50,000 members of the Queensland Teacher’s Union voted to walk off the job without pay after negotiations with the government broke down.
Teachers marched through Brisbane on Wednesday to demand better pay and conditions
Thousands marched to the steps of Brisbane’s Parliament House to demand a safer work environment exacerbated by staff shortages and excessive workloads.
Last month, Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek revealed across the state teachers reported about 119 violent incidents per day in the first term of 2025.
This equates to roughly one episode of occupational violence every four minutes – an increase of about 21 per cent compared to the same period the year prior.
While Ms Rose admitted the day she described was likely her worst, her experience was not unique.
A number of viewers related to her story, including some who claimed to have endured worse.
‘I’ve been hit, bitten, punched, kicked, pinched, scratched, sworn at, screamed in the face,’ one teacher wrote.
‘The last ten years have been really hard.’
Another wrote: ‘People who don’t work with kids don’t get it’.
