Why(s) Questions Seek Wise Answers

1. Why do parents insist on enabling their children by allowing them to stay home from school simply because they were missing out on a fun activity due to poor behavior?
2. Why do other parents insist on enabling their children by checking them out from school early simply because they were missing out on a fun activity due to poor behavior?
3. Why do aforementioned parents enable aforementioned students even further by driving them to aforementioned "fun activity" (which happened to be a field trip) and essentially tell the teachers, principal, and the world that their son/daughter is exempt from any and all consequences?
4. Why do these parents (most of whom have several children) become so blind to common sense and the morals and standards of good parenting that everyone but them sees the GIGANTIC flaws in their parenting practices?
5. Why do some parents assume that you are evil if you try to discipline their child and prevent permanent hooligan-ism in said child?
   
6. Why don't the rules apply to everyone?
   
7. Why do I allow myself to become so emotionally invested in my job that for nine months of the year, I spend 99% of the time stressed, emotionally and physically drained, and yet, never take a personal day (or as some call it, a mental health day)?
8. Why do I become so involved with my job that I dream about school, disciplining students, teaching lessons, and essentially do my job all night long, only to wake up in the morning and do it for real?
9. Why aren't teachers paid more when some of us work 24 hours a day?
10. Why do students come to school without a pencil every day and blame it on the fact that they had a pencil, but someone must have stolen it?
11. Why do I have to get notes from parents saying, "Please excuse so and so from turning in their homework on time. They forgot to bring their backpack home."?
    
12. Why is it so hard to stand up for yourself?
13. Why does my mom have to keep telling me that people are intimidated by me?
14. Why do politicians think they can make better teachers than the teachers that helped them become politicians?
    
15. Why do the "people in charge" keep changing what students learn at what age without actually working with the students and realizing that some things are just not developmentally appropriate for that particular age group?
16. Why are there no easy answers in life?
17. Why is something that should be "black and white" always tainted with shades of gray?
18. Why do people say that the best things in life are free, but in reality those things only come when you give of yourself, and it sometimes feels like giving of yourself costs a lot?
19. Why does 22 days of the school year feel like an eternity?
    
20. Why does the 6th grade hall in my building always have to smell like lemon-scented urine?
21. Why are there so many songs about rainbows?
22. Why does the thought of having pajama pants with the phrase "nerds rock" on them excite me?