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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a career changer and this is my second year as a teacher. What did I get myself into. I have never had a job so intense and exhausting. I am barely hanging on this year. I hope it gets better because this is too much. It is crazy how much is expected of teachers. It seems unsustainable. [/quote]

Another career changer in their second year and I feel exactly the same way. I teach high school math and about half of my students are two years behind or more in math. They cheated while online and those who were hanging by a thread to begin with two years ago not only didn't make any progress--they actually regressed. They sit there like zombies, not taking notes or doing anything productive or play on their phones while I'm teaching.

They're scoring 10-20% tops on assessments and express shock because they "felt extremely well prepared." They refuse to move down to a lower-level class, and when I contact parents, many reply that the kid wants to do a retake--what kind of retake is going to mutliply their kids' score by five after 60 minutes of remediation?--if they show up for the remediation, which they almost never do.

The parents think they're in school, learning, but many of them use every opportunity to get out of class and vanish for 30 minutes at  a time--bathroom trips, counselor trips, clinic trips--and then they come back and get on their phones again. Some are brazen and aggressive in their attempts to cheat, or demand to "start the test now and finish it later" during random periods of their choosing, or my lunch break, or before school or after school on a day they are available because advisory or the days I'm available are inconvenient.

I recently started experiencing limb tremors and have decided that I'll do my best to finish the year but am brushing up that resume.[/quote]

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