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recent articles about teacher shortages in California and Georgia. </p>
<p>There are and will be jobs, I wonder why the people who think teachers are overpaid aren’t taking them?</p>
<p>As for the work day. If a good teacher spends 5 to 10 minutes grading a test or paper and they have 100 - 175 students, how much time did they spend Saturday grading? I give my students my home number and regularly take calls into the evening. </p>
<p>Of course my life is easier now that I am only using uniform scantron tests that are all multiple choice. I have to sneak the more difficult open ended questions into the homework or class warm up for as long as I am allowed to still decide what those questions will be. </p>
<p>A good teacher needs to know and care for the subject, the students, and the craft of teaching. They also need the freedom to create creative, relevant, and safe learning environments. The NCLB act is killing creativity and interest in the elementary grades, it is beginning to affect the middle schools in California and is threatening to change the way high school classrooms are managed.</p>