I'm feelin the stress...

You know when you were in high school and you never gave a second thought to what your teacher's did before, after, or outside of school. Well, let me tell you what they do.

1. Grade lots and lots of papers, with horrible grammar.
2. Keep track of late and missing assignments, with all sorts of different highlighter colors.
3. Putting in your grades on the computer, and making sure every number you punched in is right.
4. Make up hand-outs so that you don't have to write everything on lined paper, and so that you can keep your things more neat and organized.
5. Make multiple trips to the copy center a day, so that you can have copies of these glorious handouts that took hours to make.
6. Sweat, Cry and Worry about confronting one of you about Plagarizing within the first week of the term.
7. Sweat, Cry and Worry about all of you who have 1/2 of your assignments missing and late, and it's only the 2nd week of the term.
8. Sweat, Cry and Worry about the two students in a class that speak maybe 5 words of English and definitely don't write any...In your English Class, by the way.
9. Sweat, Cry and Worry about how the hell they're going to teach you Grammar in a way that you get it and aren't out of your mind bored! (If anyone needs a test and handout on how to use commas...I'm your gal!)
10. Come home, and try to beg, borrow, and steal lesson plans so that you don't have to spend hours making it up all yourself.
11. And last but not least, Spending hours making up your own lesson plans, because no one else's work seems quite the way that you want to teach it.

It's seriously a hard job, and I never thought or imagined my teachers put in this much work, but someone's gotta do it. So far, I can say that I'm glad it's me. Is anyone else feelin the heat???