Why do people be teachers?

3:05pm on a Tuesday
Kid waiting for her bus number to be called: Mrs. Wright, what is that?
Me: "It's my lunch"
Kid: Why are you eatin' it?
Me:   "I am eating it because I am hungry."
Kid: No! Why didn't you eat it during lunch time?
Me: (*sigh*) "I didn't eat it then, because during lunchtime I had a meeting."
Kid: Why didn't you eat it while we was at PE?
Me: (in my head: "please stop talking") out loud: "I had another meeting, and I had to grade your writing notebooks."
Kid: *thoughtful pause*. . . . .  Being a teacher's hard.


3:10 pm
Kid: Mrs. Wright? Why do people be teachers? Teachers don't even get paid good.
Me: Well . . . . . . . . .  it must be because we looooooove you so much. And probably because we're a little bit crazy.

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"What Teachers Make" by Taylor Mali

You want to know what I make?
I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could.
I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor
and an A-­‐ feel like a slap in the face.
How dare you waste my time
with anything less than your very best.
I make kids sit through 40 minutes of study hall
in absolute silence. No, you may not work in groups.
No, you may not ask a question.
Why won’t I let you go to the bathroom?
Because you’re bored.
And you don’t really have to go to the bathroom, do you?
I make parents tremble in fear when I call home:
Hi. This is Mr. Mali. I hope I haven’t called at a bad time,
I just wanted to talk to you about something your son said today.
To the biggest bully in the grade, he said,
“Leave the kid alone. I still cry sometimes, don’t you?
It’s no big deal.”
And that was noblest act of courage I have ever seen.
I make parents see their children for who they are
and what they can be.

You want to know what I make? I make kids wonder,
I make them question.
I make them criticize.
I make them apologize and mean it.
I make them write.
I make them read, read, read.
I make them spell definitely beautiful, definitely beautiful, definitely beautiful
over and over and over again until they will never misspell
either one of those words again.
I make them show all their work in math
and hide it on their final drafts in English.
I make them understand that if you’ve got this (a brain),
then you follow this (your heart),
and if someone ever tries to judge you
by what you make, you give them this (a piece of your mind).

Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true:
Teachers make a difference! 

Now what about you?

(source-- http://taylormali.com/poems-online/what-teachers-make/)

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