RE: Before I look forward, let me look back. | 1 year on Hive. | LOH #99

Hello lovely @goodysam! Thanks for dropping in to say hi and wish me well.

I quit the job with the (gorgeous) kids just a couple of weeks ago. There were too many things about it that were stressful with not enough of an upside: I had to reinforce values and beliefs that were not a match for my own (short-sighted things about health and wellbeing that we really should be doing better with everything we know about these things in 2022; I would watch other teachers dealing with (disciplining) kids in ways I thought were not only unnecessary but damaging to their mental health; and the amount of paperwork we were supposed to be able to do while also actively supervising the kids was totally unrealistic.

Our education system needs to change, big time, and like, yesterday already. The load on teachers is ridiculous and the way we are caring for and raising small humans is really not okay with me. All the thing I was seeing are considered "normal" but I know enough now, @goodysam, that I just can't stand by and watch it happen. It's heartbreaking. I have to change the way we raise children by teaching the parents from the outside, not by being a teacher on the inside.

Lessons learned. Mission clarified. Onward and upward.

And yes, I will miss the darling munchkins dearly. !LUV