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This is my last year to teach public school and I am quite happy about that. I love my students, and if I could teach them without administration interference I would probably keep teaching. But the extra duties, ever changing lesson plan formats, new discipline plans, technology requirements, observations, and increasing demands are just plain wearing me out. The one thing I will probably really miss is choir. I just love my 4th grade choir. I am not a singer, but am a musician and have learned to help the kids sing well and I love really perfecting beautiful or challenging pieces, and watching the kids grow to love good music. I would love to continue doing something like this on a part time basis. I tried teaching choir at my (very large) church, which has grade level choirs, and is pretty extensive. The kids and other leaders were nice but I found that I really don't like teaching music that someone else chose, especially if it is rock kind of music that supposedly appeals to kids....See More
Kate I completely understand where you coming from. This is my 10th year teaching and I am seriously contemplating leaving. Admin decisions are a piece of my contemplating, but my main frustration is that teaching isn't fun for me anymore. The behaviors, lack of support, lack of student ambition, and just plain disrespect has worn me down to become bitt...See More
Nov 7, 2014
lis This is EXACTLY how I feel, too.whats sad is that I gave up teaching chorus this year. I really miss the joy of teaching the children how to sing good music, but I don't miss the hassles of volunteering to do it twice a week after school. I'm glad to hear your thoughts about church choir because I feel the same as you about it. If I could get a gro...See More
Nov 7, 2014
DonnaR/CA I hear where you are all coming from. My district admin made the unfortunate decision to drop all vocal music from the district -- K-6 left in spring 2012, 7-12 left in spring 2014. I miss it a LOT. I'm teaching Kindergarten now (self-contained classroom) and of course, some of the most fun times in class is where we are singing, playing rhythm sti...See More
Dec 3, 2014


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