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Also more and more children are coming into classrooms with a great deal of problems. These can be anything from problems at home to severe learning disabilities or a combo of both. Teachers take the heat from parents who are in denial about their child, if they even get to work with the parent at all. Also teaching nowadays is not like when many of us were in school. It isn't about creativity anymore, it is about preparing for standardized tests. Classrooms in general are overcrowded and from what I have been told, many special-needs children are just being placed in the regular classrooms with not much support. And you can forget about Social Workers being available to help out with difficult cases. Everyone I speak to who is a teacher said this is the first position that is cut due to low budgets. And also, in many cases, one Social Worker is expected to be shared from k-12 in one school district. I think that no matter what profession we go into we are going to have difficulty and think that other professions have it easier then us, but I get really heated because it always seems that people are quick to jump on the professions of teaching and the helping professions. Not to pick on the lawyers on this board but when I did my internship at a law school, all of us in the Social Work program wanted to start a support group and individual counseling for many of the law students and lawyers themselves because of the many different issues they were going through.
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