The End of the School year, the start of Summer, and the Beginning of Something New

Yesterday was my last day teaching at my high school. For the year, and for now. I think I mentioned a little earlier that my employment contract was 1 year only, because of the teacher that was on a sabbatical leave. She is coming back, and I'm moving on.

I didn't think my last day with my students would be so hard. I got myself a yearbook, mainly because there were some pretty good pictures of myself and my juniors, and I've decided that I want to collect a yearbook from everywhere I teach.  All of my students wanted to sign my book!

Here are some quotes that made me tear up...The first, from a young man who struggled quite a bit...He is bright, but many people make him feel as if he is not. He struggled all year, and managed to squeek by and pass for the year...”Yo Miss Prouse, Thank you so much for a great. I will really miss you a lot. I know that even though we had a couple ups and downs we still stuck through together and as a person I believe I have matured and learned from my mistakes. I really appreciate that.”

This, from a girl who actually wanted to take a swing at me earlier in the Spring (long, long story there), “Yo Miss Prouse, I know we had our hard times but I decided to stop being so young and grow up and act my age, so it was fun while it lasted. Hope you have a great summer”.

And this finally one really made me turn on the waterworks once they had left...this student is so incredibly bright and creative...due to one part laziness, one part teenagerness, and two parts parents who don't pay attention to her too much, she was absent quite a bit this year.. She still squeeked by as well. “Ms. Prouse, You'll be an awesome teacher in the future and I admire you for that. To be as young as you are, you've done a lot! I hope to tell others that I've done half of the things that you experienced. You're young, smart, and strong.”

Can you tell why yesterday was a day for waterproof mascara?