It's not me...
Four two years I've been wondering if I was the reason my students kept failing dismally on the provincial standards exam. It would keep me awake a night with worry if there was something I was missing. I walked the thin line between feeling guilty to have failed them, and resenting them for making me look bad.
Alas. It's not me. It's them. Some have it, and some don't. And this year, some had it. They understood the pressure, the importance, and they took it to heart. And the rose up to the challenge and made me feel like I've been doing it right all along, I just needed the right pupils.
*sigh* I feel SO much better.