And at the end of the day of in-service when our brains are fried from lectures and our bones are achy from sitting, we almost too quickly forget why we do what we do. We may be downtrodden from the incessant in-service workshops we're forced to do, but come the first day of school we will be revitalized with the energy of 25 lively bodies filling the desks in our classrooms. The truth is: We became teachers because we care about the future and we know that the future starts with these amazing young people we have the privilege of being with for nine months out of the year. Everything we do is in the best interest of "our kids." They enter as a rostered list of names on a paper, but they leave us as our kids. As another new school year begins, |
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