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My 100%

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 The more I grow up, the more I start to “figure myself out”. Just things about myself I’ve always been confused about, and then I start to have even more questions. For example, growing up I wanted to try every extracurricular activity. Even after I tried them all, I wanted to continue them all instead of putting 100% into just one. Logically, I always knew that picking one would result in me being better at it so that I could focus all my efforts towards it. But I could never get myself to do it. I’ve been the same way with my career. I purposefully tried to pick a job that would essentially allow me to have all the variety I want. Again, I know that picking a different career would make me more money or I could devote more energy to it, but I couldn’t get myself to do it.  I’ve been trying to figure out why I am this way. I’m actually so torn on if being like this is a positive or negative for me. Positively, I know I just love to do and want to do so many different things ...

Why Are We Friends?

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 I know you all must be sick of hearing about me teaching, but it's my whole life. If you haven't heard about my school, crazy things happen often. There's some sort of fight every day, almost every kid is from a bad home situation, and there is little to no admin support. That being said, behaviors are out of control multiple days. I know all teachers get overwhelmed and burnt out, but I swear it has to be so much more with teachers at title 1 schools like this one.  The reason I'm bringing this up is because I've been thinking about why I don't want to quit. There are other teachers at the school that are so so so close to quitting and are so fed up with the school. But why am I not at this point like they are? I know I am younger and newer so it might take more to break my love for teaching than others but I don't know if that's it. I honestly think the reason is because it's so refreshing to click and connect with the other teachers. I have alway...