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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with the OP in this thread. Teaching at public school is an incredibly difficult profession. Especially at the elementary level. Not only are you expected to come up with lesson plans across multiple subjects without textbooks and with limited planning periods, but you also have to differentiate the lesson across multiple levels of students, figure out a ton of independent activities so you can work with small groups, and deal with IEPs etc. Compared to that our private school teachers have it so, so easy.

I have a cushy corporate job and while there is plenty of stress and politics and I do sometimes work 55-60 hour weeks, it still pales in comparison to being a teacher. I bow down, seriously.[/quote]

This may have been the way things were in the past, but most ES teachers are not coming up with lesson plans, and the differentiation is in the packaged curriculum.  In fact, many teachers resent the mandated lesson plans, since they have lost much of the creativity and professional autonomy they had before.[/quote]

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