Last year was a rough year for educators in Idaho. I have been teaching for 16 years and it is the first time that I had a really good year teaching, but it was stomped upon by politics and daily negative rhetoric in the newspapers, and sometimes on the news. Compound that with upon meeting people outside of education, after telling them about my profession their reactions were akin to announcing that I have some dread disease or something. Honestly I am not the type of person that bases their well-being on outside forces, but to a certain extent it did create lots of worry and doubt about my future in education.
Not sure what this blog will be about specifically, but I know what I DON'T want is I don't want it to be a negative whine session. Don't want it to be a festival of what a great teacher I am.... well you get the idea. I do want it to be an honest portrayal of what it is like to be a fairly average teacher, in a fairly average school, trying to help extraordinary students learn various subjects in the realm of Family and Consumer Sciences.
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