Teachers - how do you do it?

[declansdad]

Here's the problem with your analogy though. The doctor is probably specialized in something, so they deal with that one particular area. In fact, they also probably had tons of training in that specialized area. Teachers in public schools are not all trained to be special education teachers, unless they majored in that. So when special ed students are put into a regular ed classroom without added support, it does create issues sometimes, especially if the child doesn't really belong in that type of setting. When you ask the dermatologist to start doing open heart surgery, sure he's going to get stressed out. Doesn't mean he's not a good dermatologist. It just means you're asking him to do something that he is not trained to do.

So many people just don't get this. Well said.

To many people, teaching is teaching. They think it is a pretty simple job because they were students and it didn't look as if the teachers had it so tough.