at-risk students

So a few weeks ago I blogged about how I felt that as a teacher I was sometimes left out in the cold when it came to level of safety I felt in the classroom.  But as I contemplated my own experience I recognized that the thing that kept getting me up in the morning was that I cared about the students.  I cared about the ones who were brilliant and well behaved and I cared about the ones who made me feel less than safe in my own classroom.