Teachers ROCK!

This blog was inspired by questions about if I'm missing working, if I'm excited about not going back, etc.  And this blog is dedicated to my wonderful LE family whom I'm missing a lot right now.

My partner in crime for 8th grade- yes science ;) -Lacey Goff

This is the last official week of summer and I find myself a little sad.  I am a summer person.  I love summer!  I love everything about this time of the year and that includes the 100+ degree temperatures. I love being warm/hot and can't stand being cold.  I love the sunshine, the water, longer days, and spending time with family.  This summer was a wonderful summer.  It started early, no conferences/workshops, no science supply shopping, no cleaning/organizing classrooms/storage rooms, and is ending a lot later than it has in the last 6 years.  I really have enjoyed this summer since the last few I really felt like I kept working through the summer.

Yet, as I read and hear from teacher friends about getting ready for their new students and the new year I'm a little sad that I won't have that this year.  Teaching became a big part of me and I felt like I had found my "calling" from God.  I know as a teacher you can complain about your students, parents, other teachers, administration, and politicians; but the simple fact is you are a teacher because you LOVE teaching.  As the joke goes "you don't do it for the money."  It's for that student that fills out on their student information sheet that they hate the subject you love, that you spend hours of extra time on the computer trying to find a cool and interesting new way to present a topic. It's for those parents that seem to never get the message, are to busy, or are not able to buy supplies that you hit all the back to school sales stocking up on supplies for them.  It's for those new teachers because we were all there once, that we spend the extra time mentoring and helping them get their lesson plans figured out.  And it is in spite of some people in admin and in politics that we do the best that we can to make sure "no child is left behind."  When it comes down to it our job is to help inspire and educate a child, to give them a chance to dream. 

It's for all these reasons that I am sad I will not be returning to education this year.  I loved the school I was at, the people, and the students.  They were my second family.  It was hard to say goodbye last April and it seems to be just as hard knowing I won't be there this year.  I'm happy with my choice to stay home for a while; but it is a bitter-sweet. 


So, to all those that are- May God bless you and your students.  May He give you strength of body, mind, and spirit and the courage that you need to do your job.  May He give you the blessings you need to keep you positive in the midst of negativity.  May He allow you to be His voice of encouragement and love to a child in need.  God Bless this 2011-2012 school year!