I will add my 2cents to this as ai am completed g my 25th year of teaching and while I am tired I am not burned out. I teach HS and I teach a core subject. Kids are pretty much still kids, they try and get away with as much as possible and because I know that it does not bother me much. What has changed is the nature of admin, state control and expansion, and parents ( I am a parent of kids who went through public School system). Parents have way more access to information than when I started including lessons homework and daily grading. ( I am kind of an open book) Most parents are fine but some feel the need to make excuses for their kids or frankly, lie for them, for the most part even that aspect of teaching is manageable. The admin has, on the other hand, adopted a Cover your Ass policy. Which has lead to a lot of teacher frustration with discipline policy and student behavior. While I do not rely on my admin to discipline my students it is mostly because the punishment are handed out unevenly. Overall, I like my students, I like my classes, I get to teach them important things and every once in a while I get to make a difference.
