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s0nicfan posted...

Out of curiosity, what caused you to leave in the first place? I have a good friend who is a high school teacher and he's continually astonished by how frequently his coworkers complain about their job. He had a prior career before that, so he has a much better sense of what the rest of the working world is like so it bugs him.

Was your prior job really that miserable? Or did you have a bunch of miserable people around you making you think that it was worse than it was?

Both.

I just wanted to try something outside of education because I had already been working with kids for 10 years.

And our current educational system is broken beyond repair. For example, I have to give every kid a 50, even if I've never seen the kid before. Then, if they fail the course, they can just do Credit Recovery online (all the answers are on the internet too), click through the entire course in 2 weeks, and then still pass. Just felt meaningless at times, I guess.

I had great admins though. They were awesome.