Confessions of a Teacher #1
Being a teacher is hard. Scratch that. Being a teacher is arguably one of the most bloody difficult jobs on the planet. I've watched grown men and women literally brought to tears by 'that kid.' I've watched seasoned veterans broken as 'that kid' tears down the walls of hard-earned resilience that had been earned in the fiery crucible of the classroom, until those walls were nothing more than fine sand in the wind. 'That kid' is really taking a pounding in this article, but for any man or woman that has spent any time in a classroom, 'that kid' is an apt phrasing for what we really want to say.
