May 4th is .
This was always a cute week for me at Orchard Elementary in the suburbs of Salt Lake City, Utah. Moms (and, yes, there was once a Dad) would come in like little secret elves and decorate our doors for us. Kids would make us construction paper love notes with hearts and flowers and “Smartees” and Hershey’s Kisses candies hot-glued on so tight we’d end up eating hot glue as well as chocolate.
That was the year Angie wrote on my door, in her best curly-girl cursive, “To Mrs. Eskelsen, My Bust Teacher.”
I walked proud for a week.
So, you will note the irony in the universe that this is the week that perhaps up to 250,000 teachers and vital support staff will be receiving pink slips telling them that due to the financial crisis, there is no money to pay them next year.
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