The Harsh Reality Hits!

Four weeks in to substitute teaching, and the harsh reality has hit! I am working nearly every day as a sub and also being dehumanized by students of all ages at that same pace. It enrages me! I loathe being seen not as a teacher or someone who is quite capable of imparting knowledge but as an adult presence to ignore, disrespect, and take advantage of. I don't want to see my students in The Bronx become the statistics that say for reasons including their skin color that they are destined to drop out and live up to being failures clogging society; I have yet to help any but perhaps Matthew (at BLCS) see that. I loathe that I am now working for dollars to pay my bills rather than with passion that inspires others to enjoy learning.

The long awaited job ...

I am pleased to say that after four months of classes, workshops, tests, interviews, letters, etcetera that I am finally back in the classroom teaching! For the past two weeks I have been substitute teaching in The Bronx. My favorite school so far is in Hunts Point, Hyde Leadership Charter School. It has been extremely exhausting and seems a bit surreal so far, but I am very thankful for this opportunity!!!