Teachers are consistently losing sleep due to their inability to stop caring for each and every one of their students. Teachers lose sleep over students not eating, not participating, being disrespectful, not doing homework, and selling themselves short. Teachers don’t lose lack of sleep, however, because they yearn for students to conform to societal norms or to make their jobs easier, but because students have a misconception on the purpose of schooling. The “main event” of school is not about bowing to authority or fitting the mold.

Anyone who claims the purpose of school is strictly education regarding fractions, the Renaissance or mitosis is kidding themselves and quite honestly lying. The purpose behind education to teach kids how to be upstanding people of society, to pursue knowledge, to work hard, to fight against odds, to be mature, to be confident, and so much more.

Teachers lose sleep because their students deserve and should want more than they let themselves believe. Teachers lose sleep because they are frustrated being emotionally, personally, and otherwise attached to the lives they want to change for the better everyday.

Read up on all the excuses teachers want to get rid of: https://affectiveliving.com/2014/03/08/what-students-really-need-to-hear/