Teaching is one of those professions whose physical and psychological demands are routinely underestimated — usually by people who haven’t done it. From the outside, it looks like a job that involves standing at the front of a room and explaining things. From the inside, it’s hours of vocal projection, sustained mental engagement with twenty-five to thirty individual minds at once, classroom management that requires constant low-grade vigilance, hours of grading and lesson planning outside school hours, and the accumulated emotional weight of caring about students whose home lives you can’t control. The result is a profession with one of…
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