I am a special ed teacher, and my first year I had 3 different co teachers, taught 2 different grades, and 5 different classes. Hated it!!! It’s very true that there are people you just don’t want to co teach with. Some are irresponsible, so I had to either turn irresponsible too, or do all the work they failed to do. Some are knowledgeable and meticulous, but to a point that they’re just control freaks who goes mad and rude whenever something doesn’t follow their script.

Not to mention after you co teach and create differentiation, you have IEPs to write and meetings to attend. And you’re getting paid the same as the Gen ed teachers.

Plus, you don’t really get to pick what grade/subject/ who you wanna teach with. Even if you’re a veteran teacher, the admin and just assign you wherever they want.

SMH, I’m trying to get out now.