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[quote]Thank you for articulating this well. I've been a teacher for 10 years and I'm burnt out. I bust my ass but constantly only hear negativity. I'm at the point where I'd like a 9-5 admin desk job where I can leave work at work and not be made to feel like crap because students aren't meeting some arbritrary score on a standardized test.

[b]The question is always what more can we be doing? I can't do any more. There are circumstances way beyond my control. Administration sees students only as data points. There is no acknowledgement that they are actual humans coming to school with tons of variables in their lives. According to administration it shouldn't matter that a child sleeps on an air mattress in a room shared by their entire family and couldn't sleep because the baby was crying all night. But it's my fault that the student is reading below grade level even though their guided reading group meets daily and the student receives academic intervention daily but the reading books are brought home but never read at home and homework is never completed.

So then I have to sit at a data chat meeting and be asked what more I can do. Other than moving the child into my house, I can't do any more. [/b][/quote]

This. Another teacher here. It's gotten to be very demoralizing. 
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I can relate to this.

I recently had my mid year review and was criticized and asked what more I could do. I just sat there and fought back tears because I have been working 10-12 hours a day since the beginning of August in addition to working on weekends in the attempt to stay ahead and do what is best for my students.

Unfortunately its a new principal who came in late into the school year so she doesn't know the students that I have and where they were in the beginning of the year and how much progress they have made. She just sees that my students and I supposedly aren't meeting some invisible line of achievement based on a 1 hour observation.

So frustrating. The rest of the week after that meeting I completely lost all motivation to do my job. [/quote]

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