We took the 5th grade students to Shreveport today. It was an exhausting day, departing the school at 8:15 and ending the day by the bus dropping each individual student off at their house and a teacher personally walking them to their door! This is how we can take these kids on a trip like this, since it is very difficult for their parents to get to the school to pick them up at 5pm. For some of my students, this hour trip to Shreveport is the furthest they have been from home, and the first time they have ever been to a museum. This is why I teach... to see the genuine excitement in a child's eyes as they experience a bus trip out of their world which mostly exists in the neighbohood right around the school, to see them utterly amazed by an imax movie experience, and to have them come find me to show me an exhibit they just discovered. These students have layers and layers of issues, and I endure much in a school day from them, as I enter their emotional lives each day; However, I do what I do because of experiences like today. Experiences that most children take for a granted will be the memories for years to come for these kids. I thank God for putting the desire in my heart to teach and spend my life with underprivileged children. I ask Him to sustain me, to continue to give me the endurance required to take head-on the challenges that come with working in a school like mine, and that I can somehow inspire others to spend their life with needy children.
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