Fully Occupied

I'd sort of forgotten just how busy work can be. Now I remember.

On a related point, one of the wisest things I've ever heard said about teaching is that teachers lose touch with the realities of the classroom as soon as they are out of them. If you say this to those in positions of authority who no longer have teaching duties they nearly always think it's intended as some kind of criticism of them. But this is not the case. It's amazing how teachers who are in the classroom every day can seem to forget the realities of the experience as soon as they are out of the door. It isn't wise to look at the job in the abstract. It's way too remorselessly concrete for that.