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It’s Just Not For Me*
Today I decided that I will never, ever be an intermediate teacher. (Probably.) I spent several weeks in a grade 7 classroom during my long-term placement in teacher’s college, and after I spent most of those several weeks winning them over, it wasn’t so bad. I even thought for a minute that maybe I could teach grade 7 or 8 in a good school. …then I went back to high school. I am a high school teacher, through and through. I have nothing against 12 and 13 years olds–I know several very awesome kids at that age. I just don’t like 29 of them at one time. In one room.…