Social Media Inspiration

In the midst of all the negativity on social media, it was nice to find a small inspirational video on Facebook this week. It showed a high school teacher accepting the challenge of bench pressing 315 lbs in front of a group of students. 

Why is this inspirational? It could have been seen as her showing off (which there were plenty of negative comments saying such things, or accusing her of staging the whole thing). Well, here is my reasoning...She took the time to do something that her students wanted to see her do. There were a million other things she could have been doing, not to mention the million things she probably already did that day. It was uplifting to see her take the time to indulge her students and to see so many of them there, eager to watch. That shows that she is a teacher that has developed some strong relationships with her students. Little things like this show students that they matter as people, not just successful students. I hope to be able to do the same when I join the ranks.