Teaching - doesn't that take place in the classroom, with the students?

Sometimes...actually a lot of the time it is not easy to be a teacher.  If what we did in the classroom was our only responsibility, how good life would be.  But now more and more time is taken up with additional tasks.  Too much paperwork and not enough student interaction time.  September, my favourite month of the year, usually passes by in a blur, a flurry of activity.  We race ahead, trying to get somewhere, but often I feel like Alice Through the Looking Glass, running but getting nowhere, while expending all of my energy.