10. When Teachers Leave the Profession is it Time to Make a Change by Lynette Walters

Ok!! So you’re fed up! You just can’t take anymore! Your season has ended, you’re bored with the job or no longer feel challenged, the kids are too difficult, or you just need a change….Whatever the reason, whatever the rhyme, you’re ready to leave teaching and do something different.  It’s time to explore the options!

Changing careers and/or reinventing yourself can be a little scary.  Nonetheless, no one deserves the torture of having to show up for a job that is mentally, physically and emotionally draining.  At some point and time, teaching was the “bees knees” or the “cat’s pajamas”, and you reveled in the thought of educating today’s youth into oblivion. Sound familiar? Sure it does.  But here comes reality….somewhere, somehow, you lost your luster and now are faced with the dilemma of choosing another career, or at the very least coming out of the classroom.

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For fifteen years Franchesca taught English/Language Arts in two urban districts in Atlanta, Georgia,...

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