I have been a high school classroom teacher for 26 years. I teach in a large suburban school, mostly middle class kids. I am currently teaching Advanced Placement, so I do have the top kids. I interact with the general population all day from homeroom, to my assigned duty.

That being said, I think the kids at my school are awesome. I am not sure what label they currently carry, but I find them to be caring, intelligent young people. Well 99% of them

Do I think that this" generation" is different than 10 years ago. I sure do, but so is society and so are their parents. If people are "hating" on them, let's try and remember that they did not raise themselves, and their world is very different from when I first stepped into a classroom.

I am glad you are loving your experience. It is an incredibly rewarding, frustrating, joyful, emotional way to make a living. It is really cool when you see you have planted a seed that really takes hold. Like for me when a kid comes into AP Bio in Sept wanting to be an engineer and leaves in June with an intended major in genetics, or immunology.

Cool stuff. OK, time to go mold young minds.....or get through Friday, whichever way the day goes!!!!!