Toby Price

If I wanted to be a hero, I decided to go to school and become a school teacher.

And like most folks, as soon as I graduated school, there I was running a local restaurant here in town.

I enjoyed it.

I had regulars who would come see me every day, and I had one regular in particular who showed up one day with a friend.

And she and the friend started speaking to me, and it turns out the friend was a principal at a nearby elementary school.

She said, I have a job for you.

It's with a first grade class.

I said, well, hmm, okay.

I did all my training with fourth grade.

She said, that's not going to be a problem.

All you have to promise me is that you just won't quit.

What?

And I went and met the class.

And after spending about 10 minutes with these friends, I learned what happened to the first two teachers.

Yeah, they were now I would call it challenging.

But every day when I walked into that room, I wasn't going to quit.

And I thought about what my second grade teacher used to tell us that everybody has something to contribute.

And I thought that about my class as well.

They taught me so many things.

They taught me to be patient, and they taught me to most of all see the value in every child.