I love teaching but have to go. The paperwork (and I don't mean marking) is more than I can take. Being 'accountable' and communicating with so many others requires about 50% of my time. I would rather be teaching. I have the skills and my students are very successful. Unfortunately, most of my time is spent doing what a secretary could do.

Wouldn't it be far more effective if Special Ed. teachers worked as a team and had a secretary (at half the pay) to do all of the scheduling for meetings, phone calls, letters and filing? I would then be free to do what I was trained to do. Of course it will never happen because it makes too much sense.