Those Who Care

Teachers always care for their students and some teachers go into teaching because they are helping the youth. Michelle was a teacher we read about in the reading and she does so much preparation even before she gets to school. She talks about getting food in the morning for the students and making sure they were well fed. She talks about how kids would fall asleep in class and how having a snack really helped them get through her class and the day. She goes out of her way and uses her own money to buy her students snacks and that is the best form of caring for students. A teacher uses their own money to help her students which there are teachers in the world who would not even do that for their class. Those are the best teacher, they teach because the love working with the youth. I think for most youth workers they are doing it for the youth and not for their own personal benefit. I have seen teachers who had snacks in their class room and they had different things for students. They would use their own money to buy those things for the students. I know teachers who bought most of the extra reading books in their class and they used their own money so the students could have more material to learn from. I think there are some youth spaces that need work on this lesson and sometimes we don’t see the kindness that youth workers bring to their jobs. We do not always ask hey did you buy those snacks on your own, we just see hey the program got snacks and not realizing the person paid out of pocket for them. These teachers who care for their students are the reason why I am becoming a youth worker today.