What I know I won't miss as a teacher when I've left

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The atrocious behaviour.

I have very good behavioural management skills - I've been told this by more than a few number of teachers - usually the teacher at the other end of the classroom. Last Friday I was told 'Mr. Mitchell, they're were the quietest they've been all week, thank you for that'. Still the noise is horrendous. Thirty-one students crammed into one half a room with a cardboard thin partition and an open corridor in between.

Students are me-focused. In a grade seven class I taught yesterday, for every student with a decent work ethic there were three without. I follow all the behavioural management processes, charts, etc. It's still bad. The scary part is how often the teacher at the other end of the bloc tells me "you did great-they worked well". If that's working well, I'd hate to see them play up!