A Veteran Teacher's Thoughts on Living Through the Death Throes of Public Education as We know it.
"You are a transitional generation... It's the hardest for you. We know the sacrifices you are being expected to make... For the ones who come after you, it will be easier. They will accept their duties with willing hearts... they will have no memories of any other way... they won't want what they can't have. " - The Handmaid's Tale, By Margaret Atwood A lot of people warned me not to leave the business world to become a teacher. It was 1992 when I realized teaching was my calling, and back to school I went, until I was hired at my first teaching job in 1994. There is a specific feeling when you find the career that is the perfect match for your skills and strengths. Something clicked in my mind, as well as in my spirit. Work didn't feel like work. I would lay in bed at night dreaming up new and better
