Yesterday my class went on a field trip. It was a nice trip and i had a better time than I had expected. I mean, i lost (well, my chaperones did) two of my kids temporarily, but other than that, it was good. one disturbing thing did happen tho when we get back to the school. one of my students lives in what we call the ghetto apartments next door to my school. it can be a pretty scary place. anyway, this child's parent did not walk over to the school to get him. Mind you, it is 8:00 at night and we were an hour and a half late getting back to the school. so i walked him over to his house (he obviously did not want me to go with him) and when he knocked on the door, no one answered. his aunt lived a couple apartments down, so we walked over there. it took about 5 mins for someone to open the door there. i just could not imagine having a child and not being there for him when he got home at 8:00 at night from this field trip. what message does this send to our kids? i will say that i don't love kids -- i mean i like them okay...but there are very few that just really get into my heart (no judgements on the profession please--i've been through all that before...) and this child is not an easy one to love at all!! but gah-lay...how do not love the kids that you and the person you love created? and even if you don't love the person you had a child with, the kid's still partly you... If I were ruler of the kingdom, I think i would start requiring reproductive iq tests. these would be given to kids as early as 10 years old. it wouldn't be a hard test, just a common sense test and if you didn't pass...WHAM, you get sterilized! no kids for you!
anyway, that's just a thought.....
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