Confessions of a Fifth Year Teacher

Wanting More and Looking Out on the Horizon

Another year has gone by as a teacher, but what I find interesting, perhaps almost concerning, is how little the number of students that I really made connections with or was really upset that I would not be seeing them anymore. I know in the past, the start of June had been a bittersweet time, but this year I didn't give out books or write sappy messages of farewells, just a few posed pictures and brief comments in a yearbook or two.

Perhaps I was just running out of time towards the end of the school year, or that this is the school year that I have been much more diligent to NOT be in school as much.......

 

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The Movies that Made Me Want to Get into Education: Lean on Me

I can remember first watching this movie in our Marlboro house when I was around twelve years old. The concept of the film was quite engaging: One no nonsense principal attempts to clean up one of the toughest inner city high schools before they are taken over by the state. He is up against tardy students who hang out in the hallways blaring out their ghetto blasters while smoking cigarettes, apathetic teachers, a community that is trying to get him fired for kicking out a lot of the bad kids without due process and even the fire marshal because "Crazy Joe" has to put chains around the doors during the school day to prevent gang members and drug dealers from sneaking back into his school.....

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