I Can Be Right and Still Be Wrong…

The beginning of the school year is always challenging. Students must learn classroom procedures and rules on top of the curriculum. The first two months of school have always been the most trying for me, and I often struggle with maintaining healthy habits. This is something I am working to steadily improve in my life.

Teaching is not an easy job. We can be criticized, scrutinized, and our intentions may be misunderstood. Sometimes there are far more complaints than words of affirmation. Most of the teachers I know would agree that we do this job because we love teaching. We are not perfect. We fumble. We make mistakes. Yet, we are doing our absolute best to raise up the next generation. Most teachers are lifelong learners, and we will get the lessons wrong sometimes. Please remember this if emotions run high.

When you’re heated, try to see things through the lens of grace. Wait a day to send the email. Ask for wisdom from a trusted confidant. Once words are out there living in the world, you can’t take them back. These are the truths I’m reminding myself of today. Just as teachers make mistakes, so do parents because teachers and parents are people, and people make mistakes. That’s a statement I’ll choose to call to mind today.

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