Day One of the new School Year that’s beginning without me:
Is it crazy to regret a choice I know was a good one, maybe the best one, maybe not?
Is it selfish to feel jealous or even resentful of the New Teacher, my Replacement, worse yet, possibly my Better?
Is it useless to resent March (and last March in particular) and its impossible decision thrown at me, us, to make 6 months before the new school year?
Is it betraying myself to accept that i am not a teacher right now and even be a tiny bit relieved?
Is it okay to spend a day (or 4) mourning this stage of my life, the stage when I was a Teacher, when I was a valid member of my community, when I was Needed?
Is it optimistic to hope that sometime I will have the chance to return to the Children and the Red Brick School I love so much ?
Is it okay to cry for the children that are now someone else’s to love?
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