I've seen the picture below making the rounds on the internet. I don't have any complaints about it. They are legitimate issues in education. Many of them need to be discussed and ultimately, resolved. I bet as you read over them you will find yourself agreeing with almost all of them. The interesting thing would be putting together a list of the opposite: Things Teachers Did Sign-Up For. You see, despite all the negative, all that we have to overcome every single day, we still signed up for one thing: to make a difference in a child's life. Nothing listed above can take away the feeling that you get when a kid tells you "thank you" or how you've impacted their life. Nothing on the list can replace how you believed in a child when nobody else would.
We'll get all the things on the list above right someday. It might not be during our lifetime; history can point to countless examples of those who fought for a cause but didn't live to see it come to fruition. Is there any cause greater though than being here, now, laying the groundwork for what is to come? It's why we can't stop the fight, and the fight is putting our best foot forward every single day. It's why we must resist becoming the "get off my lawn" generation of educators. If we put our best out there for the world to see every day, people will take notice. It's this that will make people want to hear our story. And when they hear our story, the change will occur. I am certain that there were plenty of things that Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln and numerous others didn't sign up for. However, what they did sign up for is what allowed those things they didn't sign up for to crumble over time.
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