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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a special education teacher. I'm on year 23. If I could quit tomorrow I would. Special education has become a nightmare. I love the teaching aspect of it and I generally have no issues with parents. But the excessive paperwork and meetings...I just can't anymore. I am CONSTANTLY missing class for meetings. And about 90% of all my planning time is writing IEPs, narratives, goals, taking data, filling in progress reports, responding to the neverending onslaught of requests for information for IEPs for kids I teach, etc. I also foolishly got certified to test kids so now I'm losing time I don't have to do that. Normally teachers who test are given an extra planning to compensate. Not me! They needed me to teach all the classes I was given as there's no one else to do it since we lost funding for multiple sped positions somehow (even though my classes are bigger than ever???)  I was also given a new curriculum to teach this year so I'm trying to figure all that out too. My teaching itself....you know, the thing I was actually hired to do, is literally the last thing that gets my attention.

I'm so over it. I was absolutely planning on working past my retirement date because I used to love what I do. Now, I am retiring pretty much as soon as I am able and moving on to something else. These working conditions are atrocious. And I'm at a GOOD school with an amazing admin and fabulous co-workers.

My dream would be the federal government funding multiple new special ed teachers for every school but that will never happen because even if the money was there, no one wants this job.

Oh yeah...and the two year pay raise for special education teachers that they're now taking away? Talk about morale killer. They literally admitted that we deserve to be compensated for all of our extra work by giving us those raises and by taking them away, they're basically saying they don't value what we do enough to pay us for it. [/quote]

It feels sad to type something like “thank you for your service” like I would to a veteran who served in a war zone, but seriously, thank you. I am a gen ed teacher who is quite comfortable sharing that special educators are the unsung heroes and hardest workers of my school. Misunderstood, undercompensated, and overworked. The workload is clearly insane and you will 100% deserve your retirement! I only hope this county sorts its SpEd s^%# out so that you can have an acceptable work environment again one day. [/quote]

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