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100% agree with this.

There's so much more to teaching than the actual teaching part. Interacting with kids, controlling a classroom, etc. Those are things you start to pick up as a student teacher, but you really nail it several years in.

I feel like many base their opinions on teaching through their experience as a student or through what they hear from others.

It also highly depends on the school, students, and what type of teaching you are doing (specialist, classroom, support, etc).

A classroom teacher who has well behaved students for two years will have different opinions about teaching than a classroom teacher who has rough classes for two years. Admins do their best to spread kids out, separate kids that cause trouble together or fight, etc.

Sometimes though it's just down to the luck of the draw - you enter your third year and by the end of the day you are crying on the car ride home.