i saw a pretty amazing thing today.
i saw my kids graduate. my kids from my first year teaching actually walked across the stage and received their diplomas. i couldn't help but get a little catch in my throat. it was so awesome to see them today. as if the past two years of struggle inside my classroom didn't happen. even the kids who had the worst time with me came up, threw their arms around me and said that loved my class the most. and who doesn't like to hear stuff like that.
on a not so happy note, lots of my girls were pregnant or just had babies. that's rough to see. but not foreign to them. i'm doing research this summer over family structure and of course, the topic of young moms comes up. when you were in high school, could you name anyone that was pregnant? in my four years of school, i knew one. brandi whittington, she got pregnant during our senior year, soldier'd it out and had her son right around graduation. but now, a fellow teacher was rattling off , 11 girls who were pregnant and 5 who just had babies, all in senior class. it's almost a right of passage.
back on a happy note. philadelphia is awesome. the weather is great and i miss the little neighborhoods that flow into one another. who knew, philly might make it back into possible places to live...
on a not so happy note, lots of my girls were pregnant or just had babies. that's rough to see. but not foreign to them. i'm doing research this summer over family structure and of course, the topic of young moms comes up. when you were in high school, could you name anyone that was pregnant? in my four years of school, i knew one. brandi whittington, she got pregnant during our senior year, soldier'd it out and had her son right around graduation. but now, a fellow teacher was rattling off , 11 girls who were pregnant and 5 who just had babies, all in senior class. it's almost a right of passage.
back on a happy note. philadelphia is awesome. the weather is great and i miss the little neighborhoods that flow into one another. who knew, philly might make it back into possible places to live...