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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is my fifth and final year. I only came back this year to make sure some of my seniors graduate. I came to this school their freshman year and moved up each year with them. Some don't have good relationships with their parents, and I made a deal with them that I'd come back one last year if they promised not to drop out. I love the relationship aspect of teaching. Three fourths of them could not care less about the stuff we teach them. Why should they? Most of it is just busy work from a bygone era. The only thing that gets me out of bed in the morning is knowing that a lot of them don't have any other adult in their lives who care, and the day I call out might be the day when they really, really needed someone to talk to or talk them out of doing something dumb. [/quote]

problem is . . .  When you use up that much energy on your students, you have nothing left for your own kids.

My own son - 11 - said to me the other day,[b] "If you quit this job, would you spend less time at your computer doing week?[/b]"

made me sad initially - But it was what I needed to hear to force me to look at other options.  You have one chance to raise your own kids.  [/quote]
I really think that all depends on what job you have. There are plenty of other parents who are not teachers who spend a  lot of time in front of their computers working. Think about the lawyers who spend 70 hours working + commuting.[/quote]

Well, lawyers make a ton more money so the tradeoff is may be worth it. You can't evaluate any one aspect of the job in isolation.[/quote]

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