Bogged Down

I'm feeling a little bogged down these days. I try not to complain too much about school but I'm really feeling punished by my workload. I currently have 220 students that regularly attend my class. That's not all the students that are actually listed on my roster. It makes for a pretty rough week. Last year was a little bit of a shock because I had right at about 200 students. My last year teaching in TX, I only had 99. Of the 200 students I had last year, only about 80% came to class regularly so that dropped me down to more like 160. Right now, 220 actually come to my class. It some respects, I hope that they don't stop coming. I don't want any of my students to fail but there are days when I will have 5+ students missing for a class and it's sort of a relief. It's also made the head coaching position a little more crazy because I have so much more to deal with because I do have that responsibility, as well. That's why, in TX, head coaches have a reduced class load. I could only dream of that happening for me here. In fact, we're probably going to hire another Spanish teacher for our school and they're not necessarily going to reduce the amount of students I have. The administration says that we should just be patient because we're going to get another teacher but the counselors have said that they will fill that person's classes first with all the students who wanted Spanish this year and didn't get it. If it's going to be like this again next year, I'm likely to go teach in Pennsylvania. I hear the grass is greener there.