I was done. I always thought the day might come that I would burn out as an agriculture teacher, but I never dreamed it would be after only two years. How did I get to this point? As I thought back to my first two years as a teacher, I realized that Ihad experienced a very abnormal first two years, even for an agriculture teacher and FFA advisor. One month after being hired for my first teaching job, the community I would be moving to was destroyed by one of the worst tornadoes in Iowa history. I was coming into a school with a very lackluster agriculture program. Coupling that with no school, I literally had no teaching materials and had to create everything on my own while adjusting to the life of a first year teacher in a temporary classroom until a new building was constructed.
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