If you are anything like the educators I know, you find yourself saying many times a day, “Why am I so tired?”
You are so tired because you have…
…put in 10-, 12-, 14- hour days since August.
…taught music, language, history, and life, every day, to dozens or hundreds of young people.
…bared your artistic soul in concert after concert.
…carried overstressed, overpressured, undersupported students through the hard days.
…done twelve months of work in nine months.
…done it all while maintaining an active family life.
…done it all with a smile.
Why are you so tired? Because you are a teacher at the end of a long, challenging, beautiful journey.