Today I Am Hopeful

Often I find myself wondering if what I do for a living (educating teens) is futile or if I am making a difference. Students never make me feel this way. I enter this blue funk when adults with whom I engage in the business of education do something so asinine that I have to leave their presence or be fired for what I say. The inactivity of adults in "charge" drives me crazy as well.

A colleague of mine is so angry at the bureaucracy of education that she is actively engaged in researching options for establishing a magnet school where she lives. I believe she will do it. Her determination was palpable when I talked with her. When I see teachers who love students so much that they are motivated to act on their behalf, to make sure they are cared for and have an opportunity for an education in an environment that appreciates their uniqueness, I am hopeful.