the teacher is always young

I’ve heard someone say that the teacher never grows up. The teacher never grows up. The kids come to class, they finish one year, and then they move on to the next year, to a different room with a different teacher in a different grade. They climb up the ladder. They grow. Whereas the teacher stays as he watches his students come into his class and then they finish and they move on. Kids come and go and that’s how they grow, but the teacher stays in the same spot. So that years later a student comes back to visit the teacher who is still in that same room teaching the same grade and then the student would realize how much he or she has grown. But the teacher stays the same. The teacher stays put. This is why the teacher is always young.

Today was our last class. I had them sit together in a circle because it was our last class. I handed out report cards and we had a mini party. And then they move on.