I feel your pain! By Daniela74

For all of the teachers reading this who want to quit, I feel your pain! I was YOU last year. After six years of teaching every grade from 5-12 (i taught one year of middle school and five years of jr high/high school),

I have finally quit. And I feel FANTASTIC! I look better than I ever have, and I actually sleep through the night without dreaming of myself standing at the overhead projector teaching. In fact, I actually enjoy Sundays now instead of dread them. I don't feel like crying all the time. My headaches have gone away. My evenings are my own again and I feel like I have re-discovered myself.

I know there are a lot of people in teaching who are doing amazing work despite how difficult it is....and I commend each and every one of you. We need good teachers, but I would never recommend the profession to anyone. Like the last post by "Serious," I also couldn't justify all that work for blatant disrespect, a huge workload and low pay. Don't get me wrong....I am making the same now as I did teaching. But I don't care so much about the money as I do my health, my sanity and my DIGNITY!!!!

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