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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm glad you're leaving if you have that much disdain for your students.[/quote]

NP.  Do shut up.  OP did not express disdain for students ANYWHERE in her post.  Learn how to read and until then, zip your trap.[/quote]

She basically said "I'm quitting because poor people."[/quote]

No, she said she's quitting because 'the education system makes [me] feel like a puppet'
It's also not unreasonable in any career field to decide if it's the overall field or just your current position that needs changed.  Teaching in a challenging inner city environment is probably a lot different from teach at Walt Whitman which is different from teaching kindergarten at a small parochial school.  I know people who love teaching middle schoolers but would be miserable teaching first graders.  It doesn't mean they hate little kids, just that it doesn't mean job satisfaction or happiness.

Don't look for problems where there aren't any.[/quote]

I agree, and I'm someone who spent four years teaching in an inner city (not DC) public high school with serious gang problems and feel like I did my time.

Now I have comparatively cushy job teaching at a very nice private school where my students are at grade level or higher, are polite and interested, and who have parents that actually care that they are in school.

I love teaching.  I even loved teaching at the inner city school for the most part.  But it wears you down and at least I had the good sense to get out when I knew I couldn't take it anymore.
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