The things teachers will do for their students

Today was like any other day, at the end of the day I'm left with a messy room and a couple students who I'm trying to motivate to leave my classroom because I use the classroom to tutor in the afternoon. At the end of the day I was motivating Matthew to leave, he was starting to panic over the fact that he could not find his Spanish flashcards he was making at the end of the day that are due tomorrow. He went on how he thought they might have been thrown away. Needing to use the classroom, I did what almost any teacher would do and was going through the trash looking for them. After digging through the trash and not finding them, I go over to his binder and look inside his pencil pouch. I found a set of cards like the ones he was making and asked him if these were the ones he was looking for. "Yes, those are them!" There was not a thank you or I'm sorry you had to dig in the trash, but it was more of now I don't have to worry about not having my Spanish homework. I'm left feeling like I just went through the trash to find what was in safe keeping the entire time.