2. "I still teach, but at my first school — where I thought I’d be for life — I got a new student. He was troubled and heard voices, but was very nice to me. And then one day, he stabbed me in the shoulder with a pen. There was a 'manifestation meeting,' and basically, they decided it was okay for him to do that. My district wanted me to sign that I wouldn’t press charges and wanted me to attend 40 hours of training on how to handle someone who is trying to murder you, basically. The kid was back in my class and tried to do it again. It was the end of the school year, so I used up my sick days, and I interviewed elsewhere. I did not press charges, though I now know I should have." — JustGreenGuy7 4. "I left when the state mandated a new teacher evaluation protocol. We had to document our proficiency in four standards, 17 indicators, and 29 elements with photographs, examples of student work, handouts from meetings, logs of parent interactions, copies of emails, etc.…