One liners from the 6 and under crowd:
"Yeah, well... don't buy many because if I don't like it, I'm not going back" - from a new kindergartener whose Mom said she was going to purchase his new school clothes.
"Not enough... They said I have to go back!" - response from a child when asked what they learned at their first day of school.
"E-I-E-I-O" - A new kindergartener proudly informed his parent he had learned how to spell "farm."
"Yeah, an' he even SMELLS brand new... 'cept sometimes he smells a little spoiled" - When asked about his newborn brother who just came home from the hospital.
The reward for a teacher is not so much in the form of a paycheck. Lord knows, teachers in the US are not paid in proportion to their importance to our society. The real reward is in seeing the world through the eyes of a child - the wonder of learning a new skill, the excitement of discovery, the innocence of the open mind, the raw observation of life in its un-adult-erated form (pun intended).
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