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It was 7:30 pm last Friday, November 3, and my collegues and I were sitting in the auditorium waiting for the commencement speaches to begin. It was an exciting time. I was going to see some of the students I taught recieve their graduation diplomas. I was proud of them. Remember I teach students with learning disabilities- students who find school difficult, students who have to work much harder to get the same results as students without learning disabilities, students who are often discouraged and can find many reasons to drop out of school. And yet, there they were walking across the stage, dressed in their finest accepting their high school diplomas while their proud, (and relieved) parents were taking pictures of that important moment. Often when my students walk across that stage at commencement, they walk out of my life into the world of university, college or full time employment, and I don’t get to see tor hear about them again. Often, but not always. Sometimes I hear about my former students through the grapevine, sometimes they come back in person to share their successes with me and laugh about how immature they were in grade nine and ten and thank me for being there for them. That’s when I just want to hug them and thank them for being there for me, for letting me help them because that’s what I love to do. I love being a teacher and without my students , who would I teach? Without my students, I wouldn’t be a teacher. And, that would be a bad thing.
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