A teacher needs considerable "downtime" to recover mental and emotional
energies expended in teaching. Yet they don't get it. What they get
instead are endless administrative requirements to "set goals and track
progress," "manage student attendance, tracking, and performance," and
"justify initiatives and assess each course," not to mention the load of
endless committees, emails, phone calls, meetings, student advising, and on
and on, all piled on to other miscellaneous administrative "requirements" that have nothing to do with teaching.
