Oh dear!
Yesterday I had a phone call at work. At first I thought it was a school ringing to book a software fair, then it became evident that I was being asked to do a day's supply teaching on Monday. I am on the supply list in Wrexham but this was the first time they had contacted me. Against my better judgement I agreed to do it but within ten minutes, battling with increasing feelings of panic, I rang them back and said I wasn't available after all. The truth is that, since leaving my teaching job, with great relief, last summer, I have never felt the least desire to go back into the classroom, but actually it goes much deeper than that and I am left asking myself how on earth the job and its pressures have left me feeling incapable of ever standing in front of a class again.
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How wise of you to get out when you did. Lord knows what would of occurred if you had stayed in the system.
"incapable of ever standing in front of a class again."
Wow! I'm surprised to hear that, Jenny. I'm assuming you were once a gifted and devoted teacher, and now you can't bear the thought of doing something that once brought you joy? The pressures of teaching today are, I suppose, more than most of us realise. I'll bet the school system has lost one of their best. Too bad, really.
I was certainly devoted to the job, Dale - spent hours at it but over the last few years too many problematic things have happened and I think it's the result of the culmination of all that. My reaction surprised me too, I can tell you!
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