thick skin. I need it

I have been warned 100 times about the politics that go along with being a public school teacher.  The negative politics, should I mention.  I have already seen some of it and experienced it but I feel it is maybe 1% of what is out there.  Why am I being a teacher?  It is not to have fun chit chatting in the staff room, though spending that time exchanging stories ideas and things that worked would be beneficial.  It is not so I can help spread the standards that  Ca officials think are the most important ones children need to learn, though some of them are important, some of them aren't.  Some of them are vague, half built and out of order.  Some of them are too drill and kill and no hands on.  But of course I will teach what I need to teach.  I am not doing it to prove that I can control a group of kids, or structure their minds.  I'm just doing it because I love children and think they deserve the best chance possible to grow up and learn in a hands on way.  They deserve to learn critical thinking and not be told what is what and who is who without letting them know there are several sides to every story (17 in fact.)  They deserve a low anxiety environment that feels like a family away from home and that is comfortable at the least.  I think they deserve to have a start that puts them at the top level of people for every area of life.  Sports, jobs, schools, being happy, being heard socially, emotionally, etc.  I think that I can give them this!  I mean, I know I can, and I will.  And I am willing to put up with the bull shit behind it in order to do so because they deserve it!  Kids have the purest hearts and are like a sponge waiting to soak up knowledge.  Have you been around kids lately?  They learn SOO FAST.  It is going to be hard because for every one Cynthia who gives me an erase that matches my shirt there is going to be 50 professors who ask me "you don't make a habit of late work, do you?"  But it is something that I have to hold on to.  Like, literally, figuratively, etc because I know I have a chance of not making it, and I need to say right now that I won't let that happen EVER.