Most people can leave work and that is where work is left. "I'll get to it tomorrow." There may be an email here or wrapping up a project here.
Teachers cannot do that. No matter how much they try.
I was having 'kindle time.'
During kindle time, this is what I find out.
#1) There was a huge fight at EVHS where I coach. Worth, my bro, had to help break it up. 2 teachers were sent to the hospital. One was pregnant. The other is in surgery.
#2) A student at my parent's school was killed today. He was in my dad's class. He was skateboarding while holding onto a car.
And, now, my brother and parents (all teachers) must spend their night preparing for the ramifications that come with molding our next generation after these incidences. Their minds will be somewhere else.
How do explain? How do you not explain? How do you comfort? Do you comfort? How much is too much? How much is too little? Oh, wait we all have standardized tests to pass. Do we throw those out the window? But, wait that's what funding of your school is based on? Where do we even begin?
And, then is it bad/sad that we're slightly numb to these situations? or is that the self-defense mechanism humans are equipped with that we must continually look to the future as we cling to hope?
Moral of the Story: We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. ~John Sculley
And, this quote applies to preK-college.
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