So, in watching this TED talk I had a realization.
First of all, she’s right about a bunch of things. But something silly stuck in my head: nine months. I have my kids for nine months. Of course when you say “nine months” to just about anyone, but especially a woman, the first thing that comes to mind is pregnancy.
And really, that’s kind of what it is.
It takes 9 months for me to give birth to 160 7th graders. It takes 9 months to take these 6th graders from wherever they are developmentally and attempt to get them to where they need to be to move up. And good gravy, some of them are preemies. But just like those babies, they grow up right before your eyes.
But it’s worth it when you return to school and they literally run down the block to greet you. It’s worth it when I get the excited waves down the hallway. I hardly recognized some of my babies today – they grew so much over the summer it seems! Let’s see how much of what I taught them last year stuck in those brains.
Silver Tides 