What do you want to be when you grow up?

"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
I want to be a ....
when I was younger I would have answered this question with the usual answers like most little girls...
a princess, a ballerina, a teacher.
Now I am a grown up and about to become a teacher.
It amazes me that a dream of some many years ago can finally come true and it scares me. It has been a struggle to get here I will not lie. I have spent many years in despair that it would never happen, yet happy that I was at least fortunate to work with kids. Now that it seems that the dream is almost coming true I find myself wondering if this is the right time for it to happen. The wordly ways of politics and other things that I cannot seem to comprehend at times are crashing down around all of us that want to teach. Education is becoming a business or so it seems. I cannot help but wonder if I can produce the product that is going to demanded from me . Maybe it is because I do not see children/ students as a something that can be assembled in an assembly line. Having them taught by computers. There are many things that scare me about the new reforms. At school/ work you feel the effects already and it weighs me down at times.
I want to be a teacher when I grow up! I want to teach children to explore all the possibilities using their strengths and building up their weaknesses. I want to get to know them as individuals, laugh with them and cry with them if need be. I want to high five them when they have a success, teach them right from wrong. Read books, write stories, sing songs off key, make art, and all the other things that will help us learn for m each other.
 So what do I want ot be when I grow up?
 A member of a noble profession - a teacher!