Liberating
10/25/2005 04:01 p.m.
To know that you don't have to do "this" forever... whatever your "this" may be.

For me, today... it's putting up with the beauracratic, political, butt-kissing, facade of the public education system (from the inside). I'm tired of the paper-work, tired of the "rules" changing every other week, tired of seeing students not getting the education, modification, treatment, etc. that they need and deserve, and mostly, I'm tired of being treated like a child myself by administration (both at my school and district-wide).

Write me a "ticket" (documentation for appraisal, review, etc) because I'm late to work because of a traffic tie up, caused either by an accident, an inept police officer directing traffic, or because the school district leased the indoor arena across the street from my school for an INS ceremony, and 5000 + cars are circling like vultures looking for a parking place.

Well I don't have to do stay at this school or in this district until I retire. I don't have to teach for the rest of my life; I can go back and get my Master's in counseling, or to become an Assessment Specialist, or in History; I can build a massage practice; I can do so many things!

I stay because I love working with the student's; I love it when you find that rare jewel with a thirst and hunger for knowledge and to be better. I stay because for now, this is comfortable, but it might not always be that way, and it is so comforting and liberating to know, to really know, to understand, that there are other alternatives.

So go ahead, make my day!
Write me up!?
I have something to write for you!
Fire me!?
Yeah, I'll quit and save you the trouble.

Life is full of adventures and I'll go on my nest one.