We The Unwilling

"“We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.” - Mother Teresa.

We.

A group. Us. A collective. A congregation. A group of people with a common purpose.

The Unwilling.

Not those that don't want to do, but those of us who refuse to stay still. To accept the status quo.

Those of us unwilling to go through life knowing that we could be better but will not act.

Led By the Unknowing.

Constrained by people that neither fully grasp the seriousness of the problems we face nor how to begin to solve any of them.

People, "leaders" who use their time bickering over nonsense instead of doing their job.

People ignorant of real life, real workers, real challenges as they sit in the seats by the desks in the offices our tax money provides them.

Are Doing the Impossible

Shed light on for the first time.

Performing the old hocus pocus.

Creating life in what was once thought to be barren.

For the Ungrateful.

For those that think they know what we do because they were a student once.

Part of the mainstream right wing that shakes their finger at any and everybody but themselves when their kids go wrong.

People who decide without education, without experience, with nothing more than a chip on their shoulder who does and doesn't deserve equal pay or equal coverage because of two months called June and July.

We have done so much, for so long, with so little.

We get up day after day with less support, less funding, less supplies than at any time before.

We get less notoriety, less money, more students with less motivation, more children whose parents teach them less and less about what it means to hear the word no.

Less ability to hold people accountable because we know that no child can be left behind even if it is for just one year and even if it would be the best thing that ever happened to that kid in their life.

And yet despite all this negativity, all this rationalizing as to why it is acceptable for teachers to be treated as second class members of the work forrce, despite all reasons we have, and believe me there are more than enough of them, to throw in the towel. To find a more "respectable" profession, we continue.

We continue to provide your children with the education they need and the parenting they lack. We defy the people that believe those that can't do teach because I'd like to see any one asshole who says that phrase spend a week in my classroom let alone 186 school days.

Despite all the noise on the outside, we produce the future. We make people realize how to create, how to question, how to reason, and most importantly how to disagree in an educated fashion.

We do all this without you. So the next time you think about a teacher, I need you to remember what is really true about us.

We are now qualified to do anything with nothing.