MrJsn

I'm at a crossroad in my life. I've been teaching for nearly 20 years now and the accumulated stress of this job is starting to show up in my physical health. Not to mention, for the most part, the job itself is pretty egregious. The pressures of administrative initiatives that seem pointless at the time but are regarded as imperative, only to be replaced a few years later with the new purportedly better initiative that is equally impractical and ineffective. This leads to excessive and unessential paperwork that consumes the limited time that teachers do have during the day to work on other things, like preparing more engaging lessons for their students. In addition, there seems to be a cultural resentment towards teachers that can likely be traced back to individual negative experiences in education from our own early lives, myself included. I can understand the public opinion that our system is broken, but as teachers, we are removed from the decision making processes that l...