tomorrow we must return to school.
Remember the kids whose vacations were filled with nothingness or worse yet trauma.
Remember your colleagues whose personal lives are filled with drama.
Remember the kids whose parents decided Christmas was the best time to announce their impending divorce.
Remember your colleagues drowning in ungraded papers and unplanned lessons frozen with the fear of never being enough.
Reach out to the kids whose lunches weren’t packed.
Bring extra for the colleague whose credit card is maxed.
Give solace to the one rejected from college and to the one who got in but can’t afford to go.
Support the colleague asked not to come back next year who must put on a brave face until June.
Give the cheater, the liar, the faker a second chance.
Don’t demand the colleague who's struggling emotionally to chaperone the dance.
It's going to be really hard for them to put away their phones. If what you are teaching is worth learning, then lovingly make them.
It's going to be really hard for them to put away their phones. But their lives aren't what they portray on social media. Adult life is messy. Ask how they really are.
Only if we care for one another can our school be centers of growth and learning.
Tomorrow for whom will you care and who will care for you?
Tomorrow for whom will you care and who will care for you?
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