Goosey Lucy

My First Year of Teaching

I just read a comment on LinkedIn from a teacher who cannot find the joy in teaching that she was led to believe would be hers.

I cried, reading her comment. I, too, lost my joy of teaching.

My first year in the classroom began in January 1971, replacing a first-year teacher who had washed out completely teaching 6th grade. She stupidly told her 33 stude…