We did our state testing this week. ✏️I walked around the room making sure not to look down 👀 enough to accidentally read any test questions, but often enough to not trip, and I thought...
Do they know they are worth it? 🤔
Do they know that they are worth the stress, the disrespect, the lip service, and the insults? 😫 Are they aware that they are worth all the apathetic shoulder shrugs 🤷♂️, eye rolls, 🙄and fruitless parent conferences? All the working endlessly to reach them only to have my worth ultimately determined by how they do in this one random test? 😶 What about the low pay, impossible standards, and everything else that teachers list as the most challenging parts of the job?
They are worth it all. 🤗
Already. Right now. Before they do their best. Before they pass. Before they mature and make good choices. Before they stay in school and graduate. 👨🎓Before they get a job or get into college. 🏫Before they say nice things and mean it. 🗣 Before they become famous actors and thank me during their Oscar acceptance speech. 🌟They are already worth all of the trouble. Just as they are.
Because they don’t show it, and some don’t even know it, but they need me. They need me to be their person. Their reason why school doesn’t hate them. Their reason why they don’t have to quit or feel like failures. The one who will be kind yet firm. The one that will demand greatness of them because I know it is in there. And it is.
They are worth it,and they are great. 📈
Even before there’s visible proof. 🌄
