The Grief of Walking Away
Quitting your teaching job? If you’ve dedicated your entire career to it, it can be one of the hardest things you do. I was in my 13th year in Denver Public Schools, teaching 4th graders. It wasn’t even the end of September when the anxiety took over, completely. August was particularly hot that year and being on the second floor of a non-air-conditioned building was gruesome. We kept a thermometer on the classroom wall. I…