I have high hopes for this coming school year.  I just learned that our school system, system wide met 89% of our educational goals last year.  That was a rise of over 24% from the prior year.  Wonderful.  That means that we have done a much better job of teaching our children and future leaders.  That’s what every teacher wants to know, that they have made a difference and have done a good job educating our children.

People think it’s easy to be a teacher with all the workdays we have and the summer off on top of that.  Well when there is a teacher work day, that’s what we are doing, working to find better ways to reach the children in the most need.  On our summers off, most of us are attending classes or workshops or both to learn better techniques to teach your children.  So the next time you want to complain about a teacher work day being an inconvenience to you, think of that and you might appreciate the hard work educators do for your family.