My non-snowflake sister taught for 35 years, kids with learning disabilities. It actually was a tough job. The school system viewed her students as losers, they dumped kids into her class who weren’t truly disabled in order to brag about the teacher-student ratio in other classes.
She had to turn in individual lesson plans for each student versus just one lesson plan for a class. She was harassed about using too much copy paper to the point she went to Staples and paid for copies herself. She stayed late, took work home, bought a lot of supplies herself. She still loved the job.
If you’re going to be a good teacher, it will be tough.
they dumped kids into her class who weren’t truly disabled in order to brag about the teacher-student ratio in other classes.
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Not only that, but also to bolster their standardized test scores. Spec ed kids’ test scores aren’t figured into the general ed population’s test scores, so it makes their school look better. Also better for the gen ed teachers who don’t have to have the kid who will pull down her class’s test score averages. Teachers are evaluated on their students’ standardized scores.