Teaching ate me alive

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. This is my 33rd year in an urban system.

I'm lucky. I teach elementary school. I don't think I could handle high school. I also have a wonderful job where I work with kids in small groups and really see progress. I've also been blessed to work in high performing schools with good principals. I make a difference every day. If I didn't, I couldn't keep doing it.

Your points about poverty are correct. It's the elephant in the room no one wants to talk about. Th cultural issues I deal with every day are too heartbreaking to talk about here. I don't even talk at home to my friends and family about what my students go through. Homelessness, incarcerated parents, violence in their neighborhoods, it goes on and on. And no one seems to know how to fix any of this. Or want to fix it. But then when they started talking about holding teachers accountable for low test scores that are directly related to poverty, I got angry.