As a teacher for 29 years, I can tell you that it is very seldom that someone reaches out to compliment you on your work. The one reward that I do have, I have found accidentally, when I find out that, in fact, many of my former students have chosen to follow in my footsteps and teach high school Spanish. How nice it would be for people to just say a kind word. In high school, most of us find that few kids even bother to wish us a merry Christmas, or a great vacation. Perhaps a statement of our times? And I'm not just speaking for myself, but for a great majority of my co-workers.