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[quote=Anonymous]If you are extroverted and can be on for several hours straight then you’ll do well. It’s not like public speaking where you get an adrenaline rush before and after but it is like performing. If you are introverted or low energy it will be uncomfortable for you.

The biggest drawback is the behavioral environment both of students and employees. The profession no longer attracts the best and brightest. If you are coming from a large company with a mix of highly capable and highly incapable people then you’ll be fine. If you are coming from an environment where everyone was brilliant or everyone was highly organized and disciplined then you will be shocked. Staff can be gossipy. Admin is filled with those who couldn’t teach well and have zero skills in managing. It seems to get worse the higher up you go. In public schools, you fail up not out. Why it is like this is beyond me.

Parents can be very difficult. I have some sympathy because I know many teachers really are not doing their job and the school does not care. The parents remind me of irate passengers who have been screwed all day by the airlines and finally snap. I am so tempted to post a sign that your future Ivy League student is being taught by a C student from a lower tier regional college who couldn’t pass the AP exam if her life depended on it, This is public education do not expect more. Get a tutor or teach your child to self study using their own materials. Also for your own protection, have your child keep a copy and proof of all assignments that they turn in, The amount of work being “lost” by some teachers is mind boggling.

Now for the kids, the behavior is a cry for help. Disruptive, late, skipping class, cheating, heads in phones is very common. Not much you can do.

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