Last day

It's amazing that by the last week of school, all the kids who ever hated you for giving them consequences for their actions or rolled their eyes at you or gave you attitude have started saying You are the best teacher! or I will miss you! I held it together until the last group of students to get on the bus were all crying, which made me cry. BUT IT'S SO SAD. You spend an entire year getting to know these kids, figuring out their ticks, seeing them (practically) every day, 8 hours a day, worrying about them constantly. They are like your children. And then one day, they are gone. And that's it.