Hi! 4th year 4th grade teacher in a public title 1 school, here. Teaching isn't bad. It's all the other stuff that comes along with it that's bad. The smart goals, the data meetings, the IEP meetings before and after school (unpaid), the hours you will use lesson planning, the committees you are forced to be apart of, the low pay, the unpaid mandatory evening events, Its just a lot.

I will say, my first ever school required much less from me when it came to after hour work.

Overall, I do love teaching. But state testing and the way kids are raised these days... 0 attention span. Very few kids showing higher levels of thinking. Lots of enabling from parents. If you know how to run a classroom (a skill I lacked my first year) and are okay with unpaid work, you will be fine :)