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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks PP. I know I have to leave but I need to finish out the year ... Financially I really need to, and I don't want to desert the kids. I cannot go back there in the fall.

I don't even know if the admin u derstands how it affects teachers when they're treated like this. I am teaching one hundred students a day and depressed and uncomfortable. That's not going to help their school. [/quote]

You have already deserted the kids.  If you are so depressed and having difficulty preparing lessons, I doubt you are being an effective teacher, and you are doing a disservice to the kids by staying for your own financial reasons.  Maybe the administration is seeing this.  If you can't handle the pressure, you aren't doing anyone, including yourself, any favors by staying.  You sound like you need counseling/therapy for your depression.  Your emotional wellbeing should be your priority at this point.[/quote]

Dude, really? Do you think that a substitute this late in the school year will make any meaningful changes? I attended inner city schools and this just empowers the disruptive kids to become more unruly. Most teachers go through this. My best friend is a MS math teacher and is also having her toughest year yet. She's also in her 4th year and has a particularly unruly group of kids, many of whom are 2-3 years behind in Math upon arrival, and very little support from parents. She's burned out as well, because she's got Admin looking for her to screw up. She challenged the principal on changing grades in a previous year (her failing students had their grades changed by Admin) and she's been a target since. If all teachers followed your advice and quit midyear, we'd have a real issue staffing schools, especially middle schools![/quote]

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