Roller Coaster

Is roller coaster one word or two? Today I felt much better about the move. Cathy was accosted by her neighbor, yet one more person who has decided to hate teachers for whatever reason, and she was really needing a hug. Only a teacher, especially an inner-city teacher, can truy understand the sense of helplessness and hopelessness that we now feel towards our job. Those people who love to judge us, on top of Issue 2 have taken away from us the joy of teaching. We no longer look forward to going to work. We dread it. It is just another job now. One we don't like to do. There is no gratification. No sense of nobility or higher cause. There is only routine and a sense of why bother? What we have to give is no longer good enough, and you continue to beat us with that daily. At the end of this we will be left with "teachers" who only stick around for a few years while they finish another degree or look for something else to do. Teaching will no longer exist as we know it now. It will no longer be a calling. A lifelong mission with lifelong teachers who teach because that is what they love. And it sucks.