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[quote=Anonymous]I just have no time for anything besides work.

Only X amount of people are allowed in the copy room at a time, so I have to come to work early enough to make sure I can print off what I need to for the day.

4 out of the 5 days of the week, I either have department meetings, IEP meetings, professional development meetings, or I get pulled for coverage for a coworker who isn't there that day. I can't plan for my classes because I have to teach somebody else's. I don't know shit about science but got told to teach the teacher's science lesson during my planning period because nobody else was available.

I have to walk my high school students to the cafeteria and pick them up, so on average I have 19 minutes for lunch. I've timed it.

The cell phone usage is ridiculous. The students cannot be without their phones for 5 minutes. Now with airpods, the kids are listening to music or straight up watching videos on their phones while I'm teaching.

I can't go on like this. I'm exhausted. I'm too tired to plan ahead, I never know what we're going to manage to get through in a day so planning ahead would always be changing anyways. I'm neglecting my own family, my own health, and my own well-being just to keep it together enough to walk into my classroom again each day.

But hey, I'm keeping my therapist in business. [/quote]

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