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In 3 weeks, I’ll be welcoming a new batch of students into my life, and I am both thrilled and fearful. What will they be like? Will they be excited to learn? Sullen? Chronic skippers? Always tardy? Belligerant? Fearful?

I expect all of the above and then some.

Some of them will pass through the year with nary a blip on my radar. Others will touch my heart. I hope I will do my best by all of them, but I know some will slip through the cracks.

Enough clichés!

3 more weeks until the official end of summer. 3 more weeks until my life is changed again.

I can’t wait.

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