Artwork is courtesy of Google images.

This may surprise many of you, but most teachers I knew and worked with felt a great sense of failure if any of their students did not pass or were not promoted.

My mentor, who was a terrific teacher, told me this repeatedly: You cannot reach every student.

But I tried, and when one flunked, I truly felt it was my fault. This poem hopefully illustrates what I mean.

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