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Teacher AW
Yesterday, a coworker of mine who shares a student with me, told me a sweet story. During her advisory class, the kid told her yesterday that she is like a second mom to him...and that I am like his first. 
(Background: kid's mom is basically a no-show in his life, and he absolutely hates his stepmom. He adores his father, however, and has a good life. He's a great kid with a crappy mom situation)
This got me. Like, choked up over my beer got me. It got my coworker, too. After all the crapola I have endured with other faculty members the last few weeks, and all the stress, this more than made up for it.
Also yesterday, my advisory class told me that I was their favorite part of the class, and that they were really sad it was over for the year, because they were going to miss me (I'll have them again for the next two years, mind you). AND a student in my journalism class decorated a post-it, saying she 
's me (she was obviously having a bad day, and was standing in the middle of the room at one point just staring off in the distance, and I went over and put an arm around her and rested my head against her arm...because she's like 6ft tall...and she said thanks, she needed that.)
It was a good day. One that I needed.
Re: Teacher AW
awwwwwww. Gold star for you!
ETA <-- That's supposed to be a gold star, but it's not showing up,