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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher in a Title One school and it is incredibly stressful. I love, love, love the kids but it is everything else that makes me crazy. Admins and their bosses seem to take advantage of the fact that most teachers have helping, giving personalities. We are constantly being asked to give more (the children need after school clubs and sports, the children need books, the children need tutoring, the children need supplies, etc). This is where the burn out occurs. I come home and I am dead tired and I have my own child who needs me. They take up our precious planning time with stupid data meetings so that forces me to do most of my grading and planning after school. Higher ups who don't really know what they are talking about make policies that don't work in our situation. We are pawns and we are often treated like children. Speaking of children, so many of them come to school undisciplined and not ready. One mom walks her tall kindergarten student to the door every morning, has a temper tantrum when she has to drop her at the door (the mom has the temper tantrum) and then expects us to carry her daughter who starts with her own temper tantrum. "Just pick her up!" she screams at us. The kid kicked my assistant principal in the face last week. Most of the kids are great and I just feel sorry that they were born to such disaster areas for parents. If I didn't get the summer off, I couldn't do this job. [/quote]

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