I can't believe I'm about to start my second year of teaching. Yesterday I stopped by the school and started working on decorating my classroom with the help of a very creative and very generous friend. Monday is our first official day back at work, and a week later the students will arrive. So surreal. The summer was here and gone in an instant.
Today I found myself at Target buying school supplies for my students (so thankful for Texas' tax free weekend). All around me I saw parents with their children getting them everything they needed for the coming year. I heard women calling a friend asking for help finding a school's supply list that the store didn't have. As I checked out and looked at my pile of pens, pencils, paper, etc., my heart grew a little bit heavy. Few if any of my students would be back to school shopping with their parents today. They won't be showing up in a week with new backpacks or new folders or even their own pencils and erasers.
What they will show up to is a teacher who believes in them and their future, even if they don't...yet.
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