Teaching, good teaching anyway, requires a huge amount of work, and that's one of the reasons i'm not sure if it's for me.

I've had probably a dozen wonderful teachers, but mine was a very good school system, and i was in accelerated classes from the time they began tracking students.

One of the reasons i wanted to go into teaching was to instill in kids a love of literature (I'm such an English major.) but i don't know if i would be able to deal with the vast numbers of high schoolers who just don't care. And given that one's friends are usually one's classmates, i don't even really have much experience with non-acclerated type students. But then everytime i read a story about some life-changing teacher i get all inspired again.

Thank you for your kind words. I'm so sorry that your education experience was so horrible.