As I prepare to step out of my choosen career of 40 years, yes I am retiring, only to go find some other way to suppliment my retirement pay, I can only say I am proud to be a teacher. I have had good days and bad, good parents, bad parents, good administration and bad. Somtimes I have asked myself what have I gotten into but then there are the children and if I can make some mark on them then I'll deal with the rest. I can forget the bad and remember that I am a good teacher and have done my job well regardless of the extras piled on.   I choose being a parent and I choose to be a teacher. The sad thing is that I don't think either profession knows truely what they are getting into when they choose it. We just do the best we can at that time.

A friend gave me a poster at Christmas,
   A painter paints pictures on canvas. Musicians paint their pictures on silence. Leopold Stokowski

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