I did different things every year -- all my lesson plans were always from scratch, actually -- but it's just not the same. "How do I do something totally new" is an interesting challenge. "How do I do the same thing I've done before, better" is not. (And to me, the same subject matter conveyed in a different way is the latter. It meets your need for challenge and variety; it doesn't meet mine.)

I think my response *was* considering those other teachers, too! I said we need a path where *all* teachers' needs are considered. I'm not sure how you get to that given that, as I said, there's a certain amount of material that students need to learn each year, but if there are teachers in non-Latin subjects who are dissatisfied because their needs for variety aren't being met, a better system would be to meet their needs too, not to say "well, you don't get it so why should Latin teachers be better". (I feel like I am repeating myself, really. Did this not come through in my first comment?)

And I get those English (or whatever) teachers...I mean, you can like English and not like *every novel ever written*, you know? (Personally, I love Orwell, can't stand Bradbury or Lord of the Flies. And I was a math major, but I didn't like differential equations or Fourier analysis. I can appreciate what they're good for, but I think everyone is better off if I'm not the one doing them.)

(I was in a private school, actually. ;)