If we could manage stress how great life would be. It isn't so much the things that happen to us that do us in.... no... it is our reaction to the stressor. Now at 55 I can get this. How do we get through to our students and kids that we have the magic answer and get heard? Good luck to all my fellow teachers. Let's go in there and share our pearls of wisdom. We learned that, "Stress promotes thoughts driven by how many resource reserves remain for coping. The greater and more prolonged the stress, the fewer reserves remain, and the greater the psychological pressure to escape. Academic Erosion (feeling unimportant) and Academic Stagnation (feeling dead-ended) are the strongest specific influences on attrition, and their effect is increased or decreased by the perceived level of School Commitment. I BELIEVE THAT WE ARE A GREAT RESOURCE. GOOD TEACHING!!!