Colleagues

For the most part I thoroughly enjoy the people I work with, but there are a few people who truly get under my skin. One of them has the gift of writing incredibly rude e-mails that you wonder if they are written just for the sole purpose of being condescending towards others. As you might guess I have just read one of those e-mails and am now feeling better after venting. Have a good night!

Back to School

After a relaxing week off, it was back to school today. So at eight o'clock this morning my fourth and fifth graders started coming in for orchestra. One of the first things I got asked was, "so did you hear about the shooting at Virginia Tech?" Boy was I completely unprepared for that! Not only that, but what do I say in response? So I replied that yes I had heard about what happened, and that was practically the end of the conversation. But five minutes later when we were all settled and ready to start playing, one of my kids blurts out from the back of the cello section, "and in the orchestra news for today, the shooting at Virginia Tech." Great. Think about it, how are you supposed to respond to that? Here I am teaching in a public school, and I am restricted by a law that says I can't talk to the children about the hope and peace that we can have through belief in Jesus Christ. That we can trust Him when horrible situations take place. And let's not forget that what took place there could potentially happen at any school. But I can't offer my students any hope because the public decided that God should not be present in the public school system. Then we wonder why horrible things happen like this.