Have you ever had a mentor? What was the greatest lesson you learned from him or her?
I guess you could say I was a mentor…
I was a Teacher Assistant… later called a Paraprofessional… 
for 30 + years…
We were to instruct (teach) our Special Needs Students… under the guidance of the Teacher in charge…
I stayed in that profession as I said… for many years…
People asked me…”Why don’t you go back to school and become a teacher?”…
“You already know how to do most everything there is to teach”…
and my answer was, “I like my position!”…
I like implementing the assigned work prepared by the Teacher…
I like being able to give one on one instruction to our students…
I liked following them to classes where they were mainstreamed into classes with the “regular” students…
I liked taking care of their needs… either physical or mental…
I liked the freedom I found with the wonderful teachers I worked with…
I liked the repertoire I had with the kids parents…
I liked that I was doing a service that all would not like… and even heard others say, “I could never do that!”…”That requires such patience!” 
I mentored by teaching these special children… math, grammar, spelling, reading, science, phys ed, art, geography, writing and training them in situations that they being… “special” … would encounter in their lives…
The teachers became friends… not just co-workers…
My mentors were the fantastic teachers I had the pleasure of working with… They taught me… as I taught the students in their class…
I learned so much!…
Things I would never had been in touch with if I hadn’t been placed in my position…
I thank the Lord every day for my experiences I was taught at the hands of some very good teachers…
and the smaller mentors (the kids I had the pleasure of working with)…
I tell everyone… THEY… these special kids…
Taught me… as I was teaching them!…
They taught me…
self-reliance…
strength…
determination…
caring…
fortitude…
and love…
and I thank them in my heart every day for the lessons learned!
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I appreciate the thought…but, I think I’ll pass on the game… so much to do…so little time…best to you, mkg