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[quote=Anonymous]Just look at the 60+ pages of parents telling teachers how easy their jobs are or at least not difficult compared to any other job, how they don’t deserve any respect because teachers don't do a good job overall now, etc etc.

I was a special ed teacher for 7 years in a different district. It was constant stress from all angles- some parents were amazing but pretty much every year I would have at least one student on my caseload whose parent(s) were totally unreasonable.

Always legal issues hanging over your head, which regular ed teachers mostly didn't worry about.

Central office always breathing down your neck and also not providing any support (again, regular ed peers not dealing with this)

I was always making up my own curriculum or paying for materials out of pocket. My regular ed peers had everything handed to them while I was spending hours creating my own lessons because I was given no curriculum or decades old materials that were no longer relevant.

School admin often didn't understand special ed issues. Sometimes this meant they left you alone. Sometimes this meant they had unrealistic expectations.

Regular ed teachers were often unhappy with the special ed teachers because they didn't want certain kids in their classes, thought the special ed teacher should be magically fixing behavior issues, etc

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