Awwww, Crap!
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This is the stuff that breaks my heart.
There is so much wrong with the public education system. My problem? I’m not smart enough to know what it takes to fix it. I hate politics. I should rephrase that. I spend too much time focusing on educating, and trying to keep up with the 26 baubled bangled holiday-dreaming dervishes that are my wonderful students doesn’t leave a lot of time for paying attention to spin-meister head games on both sides of the table.
I can’t pretend to know the answers, but I do know that teaching is not easy. I honestly don’t know what I would do with my life if I weren’t involved in the education process. I love it. Not as much as TLEMK (and my current and future family), but I have always known that I was in the right place.
Someday, I’m going to figure out how to be a better teacher, improve my lesson plans so that I reach my goal of being one of “those teachers” — you know, the ones that inspire, and always have those lesson plans that you remember until you are talking to your grandchildren.
I want to be there someday. I worry because I’m not there yet, and then I read stuff like this, and it makes me wonder if it’s worth it.
(pause)
Yeah, it’s worth it.
