"Pull Yourself up by Your Bootstraps"

I am the type of person who tries to make the best out of a bad situation.  I try to find the positive in a not so positive situation.  

Certain aspects of this semester have been a challenge.  

Not the classes or working with Scarlett students but the never ending doomsday lectures about standards!  We have chosen to become teachers and were pretty excited about it until around the second day of class.  I feel like ever since we have gotten a healthy dose of pessimism in multiple classes.  I wanted to go to medical school and every physician I knew tried to talk me out of it.  I thought about PA school and got the same response from practicing PAs.  Current teachers look at you like you are crazy when you tell them you want to go into teaching.  Why do so many people bash their profession?  

Is everybody really that unhappy?!

I want to learn about all of the great things about teaching.  The positive impact we are going to have on our future students, the fun times we will have in the classroom, and the feeling at the end of the day like we are making the world a better place.

I totally get that standards are difficult to teach and difficult to follow and difficult to be tested on.  I get that standards are not a good indicator of student knowledge and stressful for students and teachers.  But - our leaders have decided that as of right now this is the best option they can come up with.  

So instead of the negative/doomsday/the sky is falling talk, why not teach us how to conform to the standards while also employing high leverage teaching practices.  

How about motivating us and telling us we will get through it and we will all make fabulous teachers! 

We learn how important it is to motivate our future students everyday :)  

Am I just living in a world full of rainbows and butterflies? 

I look forward to reading your comments - am I the only one who feels this way!?