Friday was the first day of preschool and kindergarten, and I hung out at lunchtime to help the teachers on duty open yogurt tubes or mop up spilled applesauce.  I sat down next to one dear preschooler for some conversation.

“Hi!  I’m Miss Blessing.”

“I’m W, and I’m four years old,” he confidently answered.

“I teach the big 2nd and 3rd graders, and we’ll be your book buddies this year.”

“Do you do tricky things?”

“I hope so!  I like to make my students’ brains get very excited.”

“Good.  I like tricky, tricky things, you know.”

 

And that is why teachers run to school every day.