Getting ground down has at lest this edifying component: you learn it sucks.
Some grinds can be useful: Build the muscle, expand the brain, get your shit done.
But we are grinding on teachers and they are grinding on our kids.
Attendance is a grind, bells are a grind, and administering all that has to be administered to make kids fit the big data formulation is a grind.
Not pissing people off is a grind.
Consider the workshop and alternative to much of this grind.