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When Dedicated Teachers Feel Inadequate Despite Extraordinary Effort

I teach in a low-income school and I buy supplies with my own money and stay late every day but I still feel like I am not doing enough for kids who need everything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between individual capacity and systemic need creates a helper's paradox where increased effort intensifies the sense of inadequacy.

Ideas that help explain it
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