How I really feel about teaching

Last week was conference day and it's always very draining, but it's very draining because it's the same story every year.  Kids are kids and parents are parents, no matter where I teach. Kind of like how these teacher memes have been floating around for a few years now and I see them all the time. But if you don't follow teachers on Pinterest or Facebook, you might not have seen them.  A lot of them aren't that funny anymore (repetition tends to kill the novelty), but all are quite true.

I don't even look for words sometimes. I just make sense of the sounds.

Sometimes I think I went into teaching so I knew I wouldn't end up at a depressing place like Initech.  I never imagined I'd start sounding like Lumbergh. But I sound just like him in my head when they do stuff like that.

Often, I sound like Maury too.

But that doesn't mean they actually do the homework, even after they know its magic.

The lives that could've been saved...

Every single day...if there is a day without a meeting, it's the exception.

This is exactly what kids look like when I send them on an errand.  They set off with such purpose. 

On a bad day, just picture this in your head...(did you see Jumanji?)

This cannot be said about every day.