District 41 Board President Shares Poem For Teachers

GLEN ELLYN, IL — Teacher Appreciation week kicks off May 4, but things are very different for teachers across Illinois due to the new coronavirus shutdown. Though school won't be back in session this school year, Glen Ellyn School District 41 Board President Dr. Robert Bruno shared his appreciation by penning a poem to honor teachers and the challenges they tackle throughout the school year and during this crisis.

The poem, which was shared throughout the school district, reads:

The Courier

"Waking early with coffee
Papers still to grade
Emails like morning traffic

Families hunt for shoes that match
Stacked up as toast burns.
Before the bell rings

I arrive on site to find
Students here and there
All eagerly searching for

Their desks, books, screens, and new worlds
Filled with empty space.
I wait for minds to explore

Secrets, like atoms floating
Through history felt
In numbers, signs, songs and prose.

Somebody interrupts, 'Yes?'
I say, but no one
Hears over the learning curve

Bending now before my eyes.
Each day ends with hope
Stuffed into heavy backpacks,

Where the kids hide my hard work
Under class notes, for
Archaeologist to find

Later after the last bus
Departs and calls made
When their future is my past"

Teacher Appreciation week is May 4 through May 8, 2020.

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