Thread: We (don't) want the funk!

It can happen to anybody. A couple of years ago, I got a really awesome student teacher assigned. After a couple of weeks of increasing responsibility, she was doing great, a born teacher. I sat up in the teacher workroom for weeks feeling more and more useless (and more and more depressed as a result), while she taught "my" students (who quickly became "hers.") The only cure was when she graduated and I got my classroom back, with all the attendant stress and chaos. But it's my mission in life, literally what I live for. I think men especially have our self-esteem all tied up in our careers and work life.

I was just told the other day that I'm getting another student teacher in the spring. Sigh....