TheApple

The main reasons I'm feeling disheartened is it feels like each year there are more and more things pulling us away from being able to teach our students.  Whether it's the politics in staff meetings, like lead teachers who throw their weight around by planning events & not telling the other teachers about them until the last minute, or or administrators who won't enforce school rules.  If they don't want to enforce them, why do they have them? Or, my least favorite of all, the apathy of some teachers who were burned out BEFORE school began.  Why are they still here, when they clearly don't want to be?  It makes it harder for those of us who Do want to teach, when we're competing against the teacher who shows movies every class period, and lobbies to have day long parties for every holiday.  And just for the record- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is NOT a history movie!!!

I am a cntent idealist myself. Out side of my four wall home here at school. I am a hard worker to be ready for my babies. I love my job though I do not call it a job. I get paid to teach kids something they have no clue of before they walk in my door.  If teaching is just a job than I would get out because for the work we put into our calling we could make a LOT more money somewhere else, yet we stay because we, I included, love kids and feel that we DO make a difference in each and every kid that walks through our doors.