The Bravest Ones of All

THE BRAVEST ONES OF ALL

Unless you absolutely love your job and make oodles and oodles of money, getting up to go to work every morning probably isn’t the easiest thing to do. Even as mature adults who understand responsibility, obligation, and the need to make a living, there are definitely at least a few mornings a week where we find it difficult to find the motivation to drag ourselves out of bed, subject ourselves to a mind-numbing commute, and then do what we are gainfully employed to do.

Now imagine your job entailing the following:

• Doing something you don’t think you’re good at

• Doing something you hate/dread/abhor/despise/loathe (love my thesaurus!!)

• Having to work for several more hours after you get home

• Working with incompetent, uncooperative, immature, and obnoxious coworkers

• Having your manager constantly peering over your shoulder, nagging at you, and evaluating you

• Not getting PAID!

Put that all together and you have the plight of… OUR STUDENTS!!!

We often fail to give students enough credit for what they do everyday. Considering that school is not their choice, nor is it necessarily their priority in life, it is amazing that students will daily sit through classes, work hard, hold themselves together emotionally, tolerate annoying classmates, and subject themselves to this thing we call academic learning.

This article entitled “6 Ways Students Are Braver Than I Ever Give Them Credit For” sheds some light on the experience of our students in school. Their job is not an easy one. They’re rarely appreciated for what they do and they’re still just… Kids.

What’s my point? Just that we that we should show our kid-students appreciation, understanding, patience, respect, and love for what they do. They deserve it!