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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been teaching more than half my life now.  What is surprising to me is the severity of behaviors that are allowed to occur in classrooms.  Kids who display dangerous behaviors, over and over, and teachers are just expected to deal with it.  There are no TA's available or given to help without a special education diagnosis and that can literally take years, unless the parent pushes for it.  
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Another career changer.  This x100, plus how exhausting it is, especially once you have your own kids.[/quote]

I'm also a career changer and I underestimated how hard it would be. I probably work around the same number of hours per week as I did in my former career, but every minute of the school day is spent working whereas before I would have slower days and at least could guarantee I would get to eat lunch every day. I could take an hour of leave here or there for an appointment, but now I have to take 4 hours even if I only need to leave 30 minutes before the student day ends. Don't even get me started on getting a sub and writing sub plans. It's such a pain to have to be absent for any amount of time it makes it not worth it.

I also thought my day would be pretty much over when the student day ended since I had planned to be extremely organized and efficient with my time at school so that I wouldn't have to do too much after school ended. What I didn't realize was that I would barely get any time during the student day to do planning, grading, creating materials etc. Most of our planning time is taken up by meetings, and the little individual planning time I do have is either interrupted or unproductive due to equipment/technology issues like a PP described. [/quote]

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