re: Ok teachers, what are you least looking forward to this year?

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My introversion. I like my students and enjoy my job, but it wears me out. Social interactions - especially with needy, high energy teenagers - exhaust me like no other. Even good, easy days leave me a puddle of mud by 3:30pm.

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It’s amazing how long it took me to figure this out or admit it.
I now work with two other people and I have so much more energy for the rest of the day. It has dramatically improved every facet of my life and life with a young family.

Also, you left out your longer (very astute) answer about how America doesn’t know what it wants education to be.