inspire my students

I love teaching. Truly and truly. Walking into a classroom for the first time, six years ago, I knew this is what I was meant to do with my life.

Currently, however, I’m teaching in an eighth grade alternative program where the majority of my students won’t graduate high school and don’t particularly care. My students, as individuals, I enjoy—but I don’t feel like I’m making any impact on their lives in any real way. It’s tough….