| I am a teacher | |
| I am a student | |
| Twenty years my trade | |
| Seven classrooms | |
| Fourteen classrooms | |
| Seven hundred children | |
| Fourteen teachers | |
| Have touched my life. | Have touched my life. |
| Every day I come | Every day I come |
| My choice, my call | |
| They make me | |
| I'm glad I'm here | I'm glad I'm here. |
| I come to teach | |
| I come to learn | |
| I come to earn a paycheck | I come to earn my diploma |
| I come to be with my friends | I come to be with my friends |
| I work very hard | |
| They make me work hard | |
| Lesson plans, forms and more forms | |
| Projects, exams, oral reports | |
| I have to correct so many papers | I have to write so many papers |
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When do I have time for my personal life? |
When do I have time for my personal life? |
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I HATE HOMEWORK! |
I HATE HOMEWORK! |
| I love my students | |
| My teachers hate me | |
| Sometimes I think the kids hate me | |
| Most of my teachers are pretty cool | |
| Sometimes they make me so mad | Sometimes they make me so mad |
| Like when it's only been ten minutes since lunch and they ask to go to the restroom and I know it's because they are really worried about how their hair looks... | |
| Well, they won't let us talk
I write about what's important to me! |
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| or when they won't talk | (silence) |
| or when they won't stop talking | |
| It's like they don't think we have a life and we should just be able to stop it when the bell rings and start talking about what they want us to talk about instead of what is important to us. | |
| (glare) | |
| They can make me laugh | |
| I like to play
I like to joke and put people on |
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| They help me stay young
New music New slang |
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| "I love school.....not!" | |
| I try to challenge them | |
| They challenge me | |
| Challenge their perceptions of the world and themselves | |
| I challenge them back | |
| I try to keep them on their toes | I try to keep them on their toes |
| Sometimes I'm so proud of them | |
| Sometimes I get good grades | |
| They work hard | I work hard on something |
| They rise to my challenge | |
| They succeed | I succeed |
| I feel so proud | I feel so proud |
| All seven hundred have moved on | |
| It's time to move on | |
| I worry about them when they go | |
| It's kind of scary | |
| I hope I've provided them each with little something that will make the way a little smoother | |
| And exciting | |
| And I am often reassured as I grow to know my students each year because invariably I find something uniquely wonderful and special in each one | |
| This gives me hope | |
| Because | Because |
| They are the future | I am the future. |
Printed with permission from Stephanie Klose