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[quote=Anonymous]I was a LAD para to start my career back in the mid-2000s.

Now I'm a RTSE at a large high school.

I love each and every one of the dozens of special education paras at our school.

They truly are the most pure position in the school, as I tell them all the time, because their sole job is to work with kids.

No paperwork, no planning, just working with kids. (Yes, I know that paras can fill out student data sheets or give feedback to case managers; they CHOOSE to plan things sometimes too. This comment isn't to disparage paras' jobs...again, I was one for 4 years before I moved onto MCEA. It's to say how special, critical, and important their role is since they only have to focus on kids and not much else in terms of paperwork/red tape).

With that said, I wish there were more incentives to get more people in the job. It truly is hard to make that choice to be a para when I can make more waiting tables or working in retail, and with less stress (both of which I did between the ages of 16 and 24 before I started in MCPS 16 years ago).[/quote]

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