How long can I keep teaching with the workload and disrespect?

You have found your footing in the classroom, you are good at this now, and yet the workload, the behavior, and the disrespect have you quietly asking how much longer you can do it. That question is not weakness or failure. It is an honest reckoning from someone who has given a lot and is running low. First, separate the parts. Some of what drains you is the teaching itself, which you may still love, and some of it is the load and the disrespect piled on top, which is not really about the children at all. Getting clear on which is which matters, because the answer to 'can I stay' depends on whether the good core still outweighs the weight around it. Do not let the exhaustion blur that line. Then protect what keeps you standing. Set the boundaries you can: the hours you will not work past, the small joys of the work you refuse to let the system steal. Lean on the colleagues who understand. And give yourself real permission to ask the question honestly, without shame either way. This term, choose one boundary that guards your energy and hold it. Whether you stay or go, decide it from steadiness, not from a night when you are completely spent.