"I've also made the realization that teachers are still PEOPLE. Messy, hurt, confused people who are muddling through as best as they can...just as I am. And that made me feel so much better. The teachers have been allowed to step down from the pedestal I put them on. I thought my brokenness was an oddity. But now I see, it makes me one of the gang. We are all working through our issues."

yes, yes, yes.