It ISN'T because of the students...

Teachers quit within the first five years of employment because of the adults they encounter and deal with on a daily basis.
The incompetent administrators who can't even command enough respect to have silence at a faculty welcome meeting.
The incompetent administrators who are unprofessional in email communication, and have no clue that what they do is offensive and disrespectful.
The change that comes over those given any semblance of "power," nevermind that I voted said person in, and really had greater expectations and hopes for the role this person would take. I was totally wrong.
The teachers who aren't crabby because they haven't created a new lesson since nineteen-o-two. The same individuals who don't have to move from their classrooms the entire day. While others (me included), have to make 3 moves to three different classrooms throughout the day.

I guess that is an upgrade from the four classrooms I taught in last year.

Starting to wonder...

If I am really cut out for this...

My days...

Alarm rings at 5:09 (yep, AM--and our clock is set fast, I don't even know how many minutes fast it is, and I don't want to know).
Hit snooze (10 min) once.
Get up.
Get ready.
Leave no later than 5:50am.
Drive to school, stop at Starbucks close to school.
Get to school about 6:30-6:45 am.
Clean up my room (it is a disaster due to some credit recovery class they hold after school in my room), open the shades so it isn't cave-like, and start working on stuff: entering grades, more grading, reading email, printing reports, planning, making copies, etc.
First period starts at 7:40ish (Wednesdays, common planning starts at 7:30 for an hour, so the day with students starts later).
On A days I have a prep first period, but on B days I teach right away. A days = prep, class, lunch, class, class. B days= class, class, lunch, class, prep. Last period ends at 2:38.
Stay at school working until at least 3:15 (I leave a little earlier if I have a game for volleyball). If we have no game, I am at school sometimes until 3:30 or 3:45.
Leave for Riverdale. (on practice days)
Get to Riverdale at 4:15ish. Practice starts at 4:30.
Practice until 6:30. If I am not dying, I stay to help Varsity. Normally I leave around 7ish.
Drive home.
Get home at 7:30.
Take shower.
Start working on computer stuff--planning for the next day, do some grading, etc.
Eat.
Go to bed...usually around 10ish. Lately, it has been earlier because I have been exhausted.
Get up and do it all over again.

I miss my friends and family. Poor Louie...Thank goodness he is so understanding and kind.

And now it is 6:30 AM on a Saturday, and I can't get back to sleep because my body thinks it should be at school already.