5 Years in the Game...

Lo and behold I received an invitation in the mail to get honored by Dickinson Independent School District for 5 years of service!  Who'd have thought after 5 years I'd still be in the profession of teaching!  The day I decided to become a certified teacher, I was also contemplating becoming a financial advisor for American Express.  My original plan was to go to law school, and while I prepared for the l.s.a.t (law school admissions test), I was to earn some type of living (I had been living off the fat of the land for 2 years).  And by "fat of the land", I mean "Daddy"!  Anywho, taking the advice of many, I decided to embark on a career in teaching.  I figured it was the best of the best because I would get summer off and all major holidays (Yay me!)  It would be like I was still in college, only better 'cuz I get money twice a month AND insurance!

Nevermind the fact teaching, training and mentoring young lives is a big responsibility!!  Leave that as it may.  I substitue taught to get experience, got certified, and got offered a position before I finished my program!!  (Again Yay me!)  Lol!  Each year after the first, I reluctantly signed my contract; loving my job, but still contemplating and desiring to go to law school!  Well from the opening sentence, you can see where that's led....5 years later, and I'm still a 5th grade teacher.  Still grading papers, still meeting parents, still attending faculty meeting, still holding tutorials, still giving lunch detentions, and still...well you catch my drift!!

So thank you Dickinson ISD for giving me the opportunity to teach and shape young minds!  Thank you parents (of my students) for sharing your children with me!  Thank you mentors and administrators for shaping me into the educator I am today!  I've grown, I've become compassionate, I've become a better speaker and motivator.  I've learned patience and resilence, and most of all...I've learned all the happy hour specials for teachers in Galveston County!!  (just kidding) So again thank you and God Bless...this is my official (teacher) Oscar acceptance speech!
XOXO~ Ms. Cunningham ;-p