Okay, I simply have to share this very revealing moment from the past week.
At the school where I teach, we are allotted $200 per year for school supplies from Office Depot. How it works is that you submit an order form to your department chair, and then they send it off.
As I filled out my order form during the first week of school, it felt fairly routine. I had also waited until the last possible hour to do it and so I even felt a little rushed.
Well, this past week, my department chair hand delivered the bag of office depot stuff to my room. It was a large, pudgy bag, and so I began to get a little more excited and grateful for this gift.
Then I looked in the bag and, seeing it's contents, I became enamored. Bright colored boxes of blue, black, and red Bic pens caught my eye. There was a huge box filled with countless Manila file folders and the bag was oozing with Expo dry erase markers. A healthy box of wooden pencils sat side by side with a box of mechanical ones, for the times when you can't get to a pencil sharpener. Two working pairs of scissors seemed to be undeserved and a package of recycled, yet beautiful Post-it notes captured my imagination with their colorful surfaces. I was practically drooling over these school supplies!
I thought to myself in that moment: this is when you know you are a teacher. :)
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