While many teachers around the country are just heading back to their classrooms for a new year, I am in my third week of school, which I am pretty sure is the hardest week of the year. We are gearing up for “real” coursework and tests, parents are starting to complain, behavior systems are being tested, and the room is a mess. It is around this time that I’ll get my first sore throat, my first sick kids, and I start hitting that snooze button repeatedly. I wish I had a letter from the end of the year. I’d tell myself, and all of the back-to-school teachers out there: “Dear Teacher, Hang in there! It gets better.”
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/blog-posts/meghan-everette/dear-teacher-hang-there-it-gets-better/