I have loved the joy of teaching young children to read…. It has been such a delight in seeing them for the first time realize they can read….There is such a look on their precious faces of surprise …
This year for me has been a quite challenging…Our school is a diverse school in a progressive district…We do have a majority of children from poverty…Our school does have a reputation, even with the challenges… Always striving to maintain the status quo… With all the demands of Common Core Curriculum, and the rigors of Testing…. These challenges, added to the many other teaching responsibilities…
We struggle with the problem our children face who live in such impoverished conditions…
I will always inspire my children to love to read, even with all these demands… I do feel though, no one is listening to our children…They are our future...
Janis Sexton...Teacher...Advocate 
I am sure many of us would say they have not enough time to listen to their children, be they their own or just their charges. In the case of parents, it may be so, as a result of our chosen lifestyles. But if we reflect, even just a little, we would surely see the way we now live is getting in the way, not just in our children’s development, but our own too.
In the case of teachers and carers, time teaching, and playing with, their children is much more valuable than recording their progress as official statistics.
If we really listen to children of an early age, what would we learn, or rather what would we re-learn that we have forgotten. Well, I think we would learn how to be truly human again; to know of the angels we see at a very young age and feel their love. We would feel, hopefully, the love of our parents, and the joy of discovery and wonder. All these things we could reconnect to, if only we listened to our children, our grandchildren, our future.
Love, joy, peace as always.
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Bless you, Dear Andrew.. Taking the time to comment…Our politics have definitely challenged teachers for keeping the love of learning in their classroom with all our demands
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