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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sadly, no I would not recommend teaching anymore.  I have taught special ed for 15 years and although I love my students, the job is barely manageable.  When I started teaching I spent 85 percent of my time on work with kids.  Now, I see students the same amount of hours per week but only 50 percent of my work time is with kids, maybe less.  The culture has shifted.  Teachers are now held responsible for everything and parents are not as supported. It is sad because my students are making less quick progress because of a shift in accountability from everyone, parents, students, teachers, community, to just the teacher.  In addition, the paperwork is unbearable.

It is hard because every year more and more of my colleagues in sped are leaving the profession due to paperwork laws and unsupportive admin and families.  This leaves much lower quality teachers in our schools.

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Can someone please explain these paperwork laws? Report cards are now comments by number. We get nothing corrected sent home. Growing up I took IOWA's that lasted 3 days. What is different now? These catch phrases obviously aren't making a dent in education as people are giving up and proposing charters. You need to be more specific. All the teachers I know used to grade papers daily after school. [b]Why is there now such an argument against work after the school day?[/b] What is so different? The pay is so much better these days.[/quote]

LMAO. Where are these teachers who are not working after the school day?[/quote]

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