- there's something missing here with my students...
- why have we not felt the bond that a teacher and student should have by the end of a school year?
- where is the respect? where is the understanding?
- am I an ineffective teacher? what have I done wrong with this group to be missing this special connection?
- I think it could be a variety of things, but right now I'm blaming it on the language barrier
- what I say to them must not be getting through...
- they must not be understanding me fully, because if they were, then I don't think we'd be having such problems
- and the reason I think this way at the moment is because I just received an e-mail from a former middle school student helper of mine from Chicago who is now in her first year of high school...
- she kindly sent a short, sweet little message to say happy thanksgiving...
- just what I needed to brighten this (yet again) frustrating day in Argentina...
- with emotions flying due to having to miss an important family holiday, her e-mail really made me feel a lot better...
- funny how a student can have such an effect
- I hope that deep down my students here feel that I care about them, and respect them, and wish they could feel the same way too...aside from differences in culture and language
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