#8: The Sad Part of the Job
There are so many reasons it would be hard to be a teacher; we talk about some of them elsewhere in this article. But here’s the sad one that you might not think about: as a teacher, you are privy to many of your students’ secrets, but some of those secrets you have no power to do anything about.
Of course, a teacher can bring in help if she has reason to believe a student is in genuine danger, but if it’s just unhappy home life, there’s not much they can do about it other than try to make sure that students have a nice time when they’re in their class. Pretty sad, right?