I Love You
As a teacher, is there anything harder than the last few weeks of school? The piles of papers to be graded are slowly growing higher as the deadlines draw closer and your resolve to get out of bed in the morning is steadily decreasing? Your desire to be on and energetic and captivating is steadily plummeting as the kids decide to up the ante in all things insane and do the very opposite of what is expected (and has been expected of them all year)? Doesn't it sound fun? This is when I'm the most checked out, and yet to get it all done, I need to be the most tuned in. These are the days where I need to get to work early, but every time I beat my students to the classroom in the mornings I feel like I won a war. These last couple weeks have been a struggle for me. I don't know how to better explain it than to say I feel like I've been running through water. It's like I have to push with everything in me just to keep moving, keep going, keep showing up. At one point thi...