An Introduction

Dear Diary,

You are a new adventure for me. A new adventure that I am really looking forward too. You are going to allow me to do so much and talk about anything and everything that is on my mind. You are my dia-log... my Diary Blog!!!

Well to the main point of this dia-log... 

 I will discuss the challenges, the successes, the tears, the smiles, the love, the hate and so much more of what it is to be a teacher. 

Because, I am not just a teacher... 

I am a teacher, a social worker, a counselor, a friend and a support system.

I will also discuss the pitfalls and the high points of our current educational system and how it is currently setting students up for failure. 

I will suggest ways to change it, but only so much can be done when you don't have people who work in education, trying to fix education.

I will talk about the challenges of attracting good teachers to education. I will talk about how the average new teacher, with either a Bachelors or Masters degree, makes the same yearly salary as a High School Graduate.

I will talk about how with so little we are paid, we able to do so much and provide so much for our classrooms and our students.

This is a school year journey. 

This is Confessions of a Charter School Teacher.