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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Before you do it, check out those hours, you will have no life. I loved teaching but realized I can't do it anymore, I was literally surviving on so little sleep to be effective it was taking a toll on my health. To get to work before the endless photocopy queue I would get to work just before 7:00 a.m., leave at around 5:30 pm and take a nap then work til late or all night if I slept for more than 5 hours. So it depends on your age, if you have a partner, or children, if you are going to work in a title I school or a charter school or WTOP. It is the most exhausting thing I've ever done and sadly I just can't do it anymore.
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Yeah..this is exactly [u]me[/u][b], so much so that I was actually wondering if I  wrote this post and just forgot  that I did.! :lol:

I did not write it...but I so agree. It has taken a large toll on my health, my basic well being, and any social life. I would not encourage anyone to go into teaching today.Teaching has become a paradoxical/ catch 22 landmine of politics and misguided attempts to change societal ills that have evolved over time. They do that by blaming teachers and schools for all of it as if what society has contributed  has no effect on what the teacher should be able to do. No teacher can do what is now being asked of him/her- one needs to be a psychologist, an behavioral specialist,a nurse, a cheerleader, whatever a teacher USED to be, and a lawyer to boot. Imagine confrontation and being on the defensive all day...all day, did I say ALL DAY? Imagine if the medical field functioned in the same way as educational  reform proponents would like:

[i]100% of the population will not ever have cancer.
Of those that do for whatever reason, 90% will be cured with mild and timely best practice intervention in approximately 8 months.

ALL patients can be cured of cancer, and we have to believe that all people are not susceptible to it to begin with. No preconceived notions, here.

The doctors who do not succeed in this metric will be assigned a "zero" value added score and will be fired as well as lose their license. (Too bad for those patients with insidious disease who will find no one to care for them as they are too much of a risk to the medical professionals' career.)

In this way, we will rid the profession of ineffective doctors who cannot fix the cancer problem. [/i

This is not a field to pursue anymore, sadly.  Umm, teaching, not medicine ....just to clarify.[/quote]

+1. I've been teaching for 10 years and a LOT has changed in those 10 years. My physical and mental health are suffering, as well as time with my family. Dealing with administrators who stick their head in the sand about the fact that 6 hours in school can't make up for poverty, lack of academic language in the first language, uninvolved parents (by choice or not) and the attitude that school is not important.

I should magically be able to make these kids meet benchmark standards through my engaging lessons. That is the cure for why they're not meeting benchmark. Because they are just data points, not humans.

Like lab rats. Gotta get the data to look good to impress those associate superintendents even though I could count on two fingers the number of days the principal has actually been in the building over the last 2 weeks. Of course one of those days was for the Halloween celebration. Gotta put in face time when the parents will be there!

OP--don't do it. Education is a very different place than what you're imagining it to be. [/quote]

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