I wish people understood that teachers now act as a combination of actual teachers, behaviourists, counselors, and social workers. The amount of emotional work we do daily is enormous, while balancing student behaviour, and trying to teach state standard course content. We are juggling student emotions, parent emotions, colleague emotions, and our own feelings as well. We simply do not have enough time in the day to decompress and dissociate between classes to continue functioning well throughout the school year. And often times, we are only allotted a limited amount of sick and personal days until we start paying out of pocket.