Note to Future Wren

In case I get bogged down by the details when I enter the workforce, here is a list of ten reasons why I am becoming a teacher:

1. Because when I was living in Hawaii and I needed someone to talk to, my guidance counselor made fun of me and asked "what, having a problem with your boyfriend?"
2. Because I know what it's like to be the kid who doesn't feel happy to go home when the bell rings at the end of the day.
3. Because if it hadn't been for two teachers in my high school, I never would've made it to college.
4. Because my freshman year Biology teacher ruined the subject for me.
5. Because it's the only way I have left to prove I love my mother.
6. Because one day I hope to be a good enough teacher to instill my enthusiasm into a new generation of people.
7. Because my life feels incomplete without homework.
8. Because the idea of having summer break for the rest of my life makes me feel like a little kid.
9. Because I want to make sure that my kids meet at least one adult during their time in school that will respect them as a human beings and not look down on them simply because of their youth.
10. Because the ever-present, ever-juvenile part of me desperately wants to prove the MAT program wrong.