As someone who desperately wants to be a teacher (time and family constrictions on educatoin notwithstanding) all I can say is there is no occupation nobler, in my mind. People say there are nobler...doctors, lawyers (?), military. The very uncomplicated and simple truth that seems to escape the government is that none of us...not one would have amounted to anything without the educations that someone gave us. All I can really say is how sorry I am that this is happening to you, and how grateful I am for what you do. Please take heart...It can't go on forever.

Well, don't worry about me losing faith. I'm not that down. I am here for the students, not for the politics or any of that crap. We hopefully should find out by tomorrow morning where the cuts will be.

Faith in the education system- not possible (or at the very least, painful to keep up). Faith in the children, and in the need for us to do what we do- what keeps me (and I hope you) going. I know exactly where you're coming from, and I hope you keep your job- it sounds like you are exactly what is needed up there (or down here, come to think about it).

Good luck. It's like that 'round here too. Teachers all over the state are concerned about their jobs. There just isn't the funding. No one ever votes for the taxes and then they complain that their kid is sitting in a room with 43 other kids sharing three books.

God bless the teachers!

Oh man, my mom-in-law is a teacher, and like hell her job ends at 3. She's usually up 'til all hours of the night grading papers.

Please don't give up. The world needs teachers who care. Do you remember in Jr high or high school that one teacher who was teaching because he/she cared? Don't deprive the kids at your school of that teacher if it can be you. Everyone deserves "that teacher". Mine was a teacher who had a masters in electrical engineering yet taught jr high algebra.
Okay, I'm off my saop box now. I hope you didn't think i was getting on to you. I just don't want to see you lose faith in the education system.