I am certified to teach 1st through 8th grades...you would have to tell me that my choices were unemployment or middle school to get me to go back to middle school. Granted, I was in an inner city school (and teaching Emotional Disturbances also didn't help)...but I had one of my female students get pregnant, one of my students threw a stack of books at me, 6 students got arrested for smoking marijuana before school, I was either directly or indirectly sprayed with pepper spray twice while trying to break up fights, I got to help break up a 5 girl chick fight (hair pulling, stripper boot swinging, kicking, scratching, screaming...good times!!!), and one of my former students got arrested the year after I left for selling cocaine and marijuana...WITH HIS MOTHER!!! Yeah, I think I will stick to elementary school. I am working on my masters in educational administration, hoping to get a job as a principal, in an elementary school of course.
