Originally Posted by punkiedog
I can't imagine dealing with that! I can only hope that when we get into school we can get a teacher as caring and motivated as you are. Both my mom and FIL are teachers, and they both are so disgruntled with the system, the pressure to always be focusing on the lower end of the class, and the craziness that approach presents in the classroom with bored students acting out. It just has us lost on what to do with our three year old.

That is what wore me down...I taught for 15 years and by the last year I was so disgruntled with the "system" that I had had enough and left teaching. Teaching wasn't fun anymore...I was told to focus all of my energy on my lower end children because all the others would be "just fine"