It's not the teaching that makes my job tough. It's not the endless planning and preparation. It's not the long hours. It's not the lack of curriculum and being required to recreate the wheel. It's not the fact that I'm forbidden to have a specific science and social studies time. It's not dealing with a variety of students who have a wide range of abilities from a first grade to a eleventh grade reading level. It's not the fact that I have students who choose to complete no schoolwork the entire day.
As I've been pondering what makes my job incredibly difficult and how I can't see anyone in my generation teaching for the next 40 years of their lives, I've come to a conclusion. The amount of data we are required to collect and how it completely consumes your teaching time so you can't actually teach your students coupled with the nasty politics which come with education will make it a rarity to find an elementary teacher 40 years from now whose been teaching elementary students for 40 years.
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