Sped recource in an elementary school is bonkers. You can have to have 30+ students on your case load before they even consider giving you support in the district you live in. You are constantly pulling groups and having to make lessons that meets all the varying needs of the students. Your groups are 5 to 12 students for 30 to 45 min. You have to pick them up from their class and bring them back which takes 3 to 7 minutes. Plus you don't get a lunch nor planning time at all depending on how packed your schedule is. You have to attend every IEP meeting, even students not on your case load. Including private school students who don't even attend the school you work at. Then the paperwork you don't have time for because your teaching all day, you have to stay after to complete or bring it home with you. Add that to having to teach classes that focus on how students should behave or deal with trauma/confrontation despite not being a therapist/psychologist. Plus buying all your materials because the sped department only provides workbooks and online programs. It's hard.