A H N K A ◒: confession.
ahnka:
sometimes, i need to fall back, keep to myself for a couple days.

sometimes, i wish i could rearrange priorities. my peers are outraged by the lack of representation in magazines that basically tell us we’re not ever going to be good enough and we need to buymoreshitbuymoreshitbuymoreshit, but can’t invest any concern into the state of our classrooms, the burdens placed upon teachers, or the low motivation/high entitlement plaguing two generations of young people. we can spend thousands on kickstarter vanity projects while my colleagues are on donorschoose begging for money so that we can buy some fucking paper to make photocopies for our students. i wish great school teachers would receive the amounts of  acclaim and accolades we hand out so freely to basketball players, runway models, fashion photographers/editors/stylists, minimally-talented pop singers. i’m not asserting that inquiry and inspiration doesn’t blossom from those jobs. i’m not saying those jobs do not have significance. it’s just that the work i do and my co-teachers do has significance also. why can’t someone just say, “thank you?”

sometimes, i want to devote my entire day to something other than people and see if i feel any better about myself when i go to bed at night.

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