Take Me Home, Please?

  One afternoon before dismissal a student asked me if I could take her home and babysit her over the weekend.  I responded by saying, "Do you really want to go home with your teacher?" She enthusiastically said, "Yes!"  Then she told me that she would pay me $5000 to take her home with me.  By this time the rest of my students joined the conversation, and they all began bidding for my babysitting services.  I realized how much they really liked me not just as a teacher, but as a person too.  Throughout the school year I had built a relationship with them.  That day my student decided to SHARE the desire she had to go home with me, and I LEARNED that I really did make an impact on my students' lives.  And, from that experience I GREW.