Thank you for saying all that. People don’t realize. I mean, if teaching is such a cushy job, why don’t more people want to do it, eh? Like right now. I’m heading for the laundromat with about 170 essay intros to grade. That’s every single weekend.
I teach special ed. No curriculum, no budget. I can either do paperwork, and dot the "i"s, cross the "t"s, OR teach. There's so much paperwork, you literally cannot do both anymore.