It’s easy to feel defeated in this field. It’s easy to feel defeated when the students don’t do their homework, when they don’t clean up after themselves, when they don’t even take the worksheets with them after class. When after three days of the same thing, they still do not know how to measure to a 1/16th inch, when they have no concept of subdivision and increments. Who don’t have their own sketchbooks the 4th week of school. And yes, there are those that do. But even they get fed up with those who don’t pay attention and then claim that they have no idea what is going on. And then you have the kids who are sporadically present and have no inkling of anything. How do you work with any of this? How do you build anything if you don’t know how to measure dimensions? How do you draw if you don’t know how to draw angles? It gets tiring doing the same thing over and over.