“I make sure to teach the same subject every year, so I don't have to do massive amounts of lesson planning. By the fifth time you teach the same class, it's more manageable. You have a bunch of lesson plans prepared and you have all your materials. It's way less work every night and your lesson goes much better because you actually know how to teach the thing (…) Once it's your fifth year doing the same thing, and you're good at it, when someone threatens to make you do something else, you can make it clear that you're not going to do something else. And specifically in the subject I teach there's a pretty significant teacher shortage, so I can always hint that I might leave, and then they give me whatever I want.”
“It's one of the reasons I chose to teach English, and not History or Literature or something like that where there's much less demand for teachers.”