My, oh, my.....the life of a teacher!

So I must begin with a funny thing I overheard a student say the other day in class. Let me preface it by saying that my room is being used by another teacher during my plan period so I often stay in my room while she is teaching. The class she is teaching is a group of students who have not yet passed English I, which was to be passed their freshman year. There are several in the class who should technically be juniors by age but are still freshman by credits. Anyways, I don't even know what they were talking about but one student asked the question, "Why did they invent school?" I tried my hardest not to laugh and could only picture our country made up of these types of people who would never ever step foot in a school unless there was some kind of law that made them. Wow, can we say white trash hillbillies taking over the world? There were so many other things I wanted to say to this student, but for a sundry of reasons I kept my mouth shut and continued on with my business.

Do kids today not realize that without an education they are going nowhere? I guess maybe drug dealers or meth manufacturers wouldn't need a high school diploma, but how would they know how much of each substance to measure out, or how much change to give back to a buyer? I am amazed still at the number of kids who think floating through high school without so much as raising a finger or even minutely working is going to get them somewhere. I will admit that school is not for everyone, but what I think that means is school after high school is not for everyone. College is not for everyone is what I mean. This is not the problem I have with the kids I see walk the halls in our school today. The problem I see is apathy. But how can I change a person's attitude and make them care? That is next to impossible. Either we care or we don't. Is there a gray area there? I am positive they care about their cars, money, clothes, friends, having a good time on the weekends, but when it comes to school, that caring is nowhere to be found. So how do we change that?

I am scared for my daughter to grow up in this world. I don't want her to be pulled down by all the negativity around her. I want to shelter her from all the harm and evil the world has to offer. Let me deal with it; Let me face it; Let me take the brunt of the pain for her.

I will save the rest of my rant for another time.
-Jocelyn :)