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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP above (both the first reply, and the single parent reply).  I feel like I'm being really negative, and so I'll say again, that there are huge rewards to my job.  I love my students, I love seeing them grown and learn.  I love teaching them to self advocate and watch them developing into adulthood.  I wouldn't want to be anything else.

I will also say that first year teaching is one of the hardest things you'll ever do.  One of the weird things about special education is that generally the first year teachers get the hardest caseloads and the most unworkable schedules.  I can't think of another profession where the more seasoned professionals are doing the same thing as the beginners, and of course everything takes the beginners twice as long to do half as well. After a few years you get to "cruising altitude" and things get much more manageable. I am very very glad that I had my first child in my 7th year of teaching.  When I see people who enter the profession with young kids, I always worry about this.  [/quote]

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