I already taught...

I came to the governmentr from a teaching job. Most of the students are pretty good but the 10% who are bad are horrendous. Those whose parents participate in the educational process are also pretty good, but the parents of the 10% who come to the school to tell the teacher and the administration how their child is an angel and would never do...fill in the blank. And then there is the often spineless principles who fold under pressure and won't back up the teachers. I did enjoy watching some of the students learn, but it was a joy fraught with agony over the ones I could do nothing with discipline-wise. No, I don't think teaching is the right retirement vocation for this baby boomer. And the pay isn't near enough nor is the pension worth the misery.