This is S. Bruce Smith... i took this picture the first time i saw it. I live here 8am till approx. 4ish pm everyday with 10 art classes, leadership class and homeroom....in total the school has 700 students and i teach 400 through the course of a week. Junior High students are so different than 15 years ago when i was a student there- and they are different from me. Everyday i tell myself that they are precious, they are just children and it is a honor to teach another's child. By end of day, these thoughts are harder to retain, but luckily at that point the children go home and i go to the gym to work out my anxious energies on a treadmill.
i still worry about the future of education, of children and of their precious lives. i know there is much i can teach them however getting them to listen is the first challenge. The lessons i wish to teach them are endless- i need to find their rhythm and their "what works" and then FIT IT.
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