Mercedes Schneider prepared to be a professor. She got her doctorate in research methods. She got a job as a professor. But she wanted to teach kids. So she left her university position and returned to Louisiana to teach high school English.

In this post, she explains what Teacher Appreciation Week means to her.

She describes psychic rewards that the suits will never know. She describes the psychic rewards that the guys in the air-conditioned, plush think tanks will never experience.