Questions?

Is there a point where you should just give up? When is enough just plain enough? Does that point ever come? Is a young teenager ever too far beyond help? What happens when the star student who did so well last year has stopped training for boxing, stopped hanging out with his mentor, stopped going to church and reverted back to his terrible street behavior? What happens when everything you say in advisory is completely shot down and your students argue with you about everything you’ve spent so long planning? What do you do when students absolutely refuse to do the work? What do you do when they stop coming to school? Do you give up? How many chances do you give them? I know that personally I’ve learned to forgive people when they sin against me, but what about students who are making choices toward failure? What do you do when the students just don’t care? How do you get through to them? How do you continue to stand and try to teach them when they aren’t listening? What do you do when parents have given up on their children? Do you just walk away from them? Do you give up? Do you try harder? How hard do you continue to give? Do you try hard enough to get your own story made into a touching “wonderful teacher who changes the odds and it all comes to a tear-jerking happy ending for each student involved?” Do those teachers actually affect EACH student like that? Is that even possible to turn around the lives of every single student? Do you try for that? Do you settle for one? Do you settle for none but just be satisfied that you tried? Do you stay sane by searching for a new job for next year? Do you put your all into the one you have? What do you do when you feel like you just can’t go on? What do you do?

What am I supposed to do?