OH GOD
. l'M A TEACHER
So I'm perfectly willing to move mountains,
if you'll send me some hands for the end of my lever:
Send me a couple of administrators
who care more about standards than they do about their jobs
. Send me the occasional parent
who sees in me a colleague, not a scapegoat.
Send me a few kids every year,
willing to brave their peers in order to learn.
OH GOD, I'M ONLY A TEACHER
I want to make bricks. Could you send me some straw?
Amen

"Lord, who am I to teach the way to little children day by day, so prone myself to go astray?
I teach them knowledge, but I know how faint they flicker and low the candle of my knowledge glow.
I teach them power to will and do but only now to learn anew, my own great weakness through and
through. I teach them love for all mankind and all God's creatures, but I find my love comes lagging far
behind. Lord, if their guide I still must be, O let the little children see the teacher leaning hard on thee."
Amen

Serenity Prayer for Teachers

God grant me Serenity
to appreciate the unique gifts of my students
the Courage
to challenge them to do their best
and Wisdom
to help them become all that you created them to be.
Amen