Why I Teach…

Posted on August 21, 2009
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I’ve been off school this week due to highly unfortunate accident involving running, mud, downhills and horizontal rain left me with a fairly smashed up wrist. Not fun, not pretty but c’est la vie!!

Anyway, I received letters from some of the kids in my class and this piece of poetic writing struck me with how much I mean to the kids and what they mean to me….

“I have a flower in my brain and you give it water to grow.
You are not here to give me water.
So you need to come back and give me the water to grow.

Love from Megan”

Brought tears to my eyes and as you can imagine more determined to get back to them as soon as possible. As a teacher I strive to have kids that are eager to learn and happy to be at school – this week has shown me I have achieved that.