and NOT sad tears.
The entire school is working on our Black History Month program for the end of February and my 4th and 5th grade are singing this FABULOUS song with the chorus taken from the iconic speech from Martin Luther King Jr’s Free At Last. My 5th grade has been working on this song only since Monday – and today they sang it with SUCH raw emotion and power, (and nailing the words and melody, I must say!) I had to stop conducting and burst into tears.
This year has been such a difficult horrid year. I’m seriously looking at transfer options as well as opportunities in surrounding counties. But this made this week worth it all!
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so glad for you and for them!! Great when things really click and you certainly deserved much love from them!! Crying is liberating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These are the moments that bring home why teachers teach, that make it so rewarding. Did you tell them why you were crying?
Yes I did. It made THEM cry!!!! (And I got a lot of hugs! Even from my tough boys!)
That sounds wonderful. It is moments like that that teachers live for. Well done, Zee!
That’s powerful! ❤️
What a lovely thing to happen. Teachers work so hard, I don’t think people realize it. My brother was a teacher then principle. When he taught they would give him the kids nobody wanted in his class and he turned many of their lives around. He couldn’t get over on my nieces Face Book page how many noticed her last name and when she told them yes, he was her father. He had 30 previous students write in how he “saved” them and turned their lives around. When he read that he said that he realized why we never made it singing, he was meant to do that. What a legacy! So to you dear and all who teach you do touch lives and some days it will reach you and you will know how much.