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A past student of mine told a fellow colleague that he learned more from me in my class than other years. He was one of my challenging students so to hear this is yet another reason why I teach. We live for the little victories. We live for the minute moments when a kid shifts from "I don't care" to the "hey maybe I can do this" I try to remember this on the days when I have parents who complain to me when their child plagarizes a song as his own poem and they think I am being too hard on their precious child. I have to remember that it is the small moments that make what I do worthwhile.