Having been a teacher's aid in a probationary/difficult to handle alternate program I can say without doubt that teaching is a difficult job, but not as difficult as most teachers think.
Unfortunately most teachers go straight from high school to college and then into teaching, very few have any experience of anything else than education therefore have no idea how ####ty other jobs are. They also have an almost religious belief in how difficult teaching is, I'm a youth worker and had a somewhat burnt out teacher who would leave me to 'supervise' for whole lessons while he played guitar in the office, the fact I could, without years of college, keep a class quiet and working was seen as almost miraculous by the other teachers but in fact was just basic childcare, I'd call it 'whack a mole', as soon as you saw the little #######s head pop up you had to be over and asking them what's up.
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