Teaching Hope Part IV

This section in Teaching Hope was called Disillusionment and this section was about how teachers also go through rough patches just as students do. What we sometimes forget, well I know I did in high school, is that teachers are also human beings and that they too have outside lives that affect them. After reading this section, the only thing I could really think of was the teacher I had in middle school, she was also my soccer and basketball coach for many years; she was young, just out of college, and still immature in the sense of being professional. She would constantly tell me and other students her relationship problems. It's great to have a close connection with students and to be able to share certain things, but when is too much crossing the line? I'm hopeful I'll be able to find that balance between closeness and professionalism. But this was a good section because teachers shared their stories have how students have "saved" them. A reverse of roles.