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Originally Posted by Dozer523
When the little one hugs you going out the door (especially after that little one was the reason the day was not so good) makes it worth it at the elementary level.  Higher grades I alway like when they say "I never thought I could do that." and I get to say "Well, I knew you could".
That has a lot in common with SF. 
Und, mit SF, vee haf vays to make you learn . . . und you vill like it.  |
And, (after you have been at this quite a while, there is nothing quite as satisfying as having a 35-40 year old man or woman come up to you in the grocery store, bank, or movie theater and ask, "Didn't you used to be Mr. ____?" Then they proceed to tell you how some aspect of your class changed their life - and it is frequently something you didn't think much about at the time, or forgot you even ever taught.
Few occupations give you the opportunity to immediately change and improve someone's life, or to change their longterm potential. Doctors or paramedics come to mind. So do teachers. (And come to think on it... so does SF!)
(It is the last day - room cleaned for the summer school teacher, books inventoried and put away, materials updated for next year, all kinds of "stuff" in the car to work on over the summer - still working on "The Adventure Challenge" - and final paycheck deposited in the bank - they have to "blackmail" many of my "colleagues" to do what they should do by giving a "hard" check which is held until all the sign-offs are obtained - kind of like clearing post before a PCS!)