Mary, Sounds like you had a nightmare experience. I am preparing to teach ELL classes and am considering it for adults. Thanks for providing a view from the trenches. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 7:33 AM Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] occupations > Ah, teaching. Try an evening class of mixed gender and age, mixed ethnic, > non-native, college age, and older returning students!! I retired after > that > one. There are still some serious students, who come to class on time, > turn in > their work on time, etc. but they are in the minority, and replaced by > mouthy, > disrespectful, and manipulative (blank) Add to that some of them use > drugs, or > should be on them for their 'disorders.' > > And the pay is horrible. So that's my spiel on teaching. Mary in beautiful > weather now GA > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >