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Something that I was not prepared to deal with in teaching... when a student dies. I have had the fortune not to know the student, but the death affects everyone in the school. (2nd student this year, and two other students from other local schools have died this school year.) Tonight, as we waited for tonight's special show. A show that many many students have spend months working on. We received word that a student had been killed in a skiing accident. The show is cancelled. I left to students who were crying and contemplating how they were going to tell everyone who comes to the show that it is cancelled, that this student died.
On my drive home I always contemplate the fragility of life, what death means to other students, parents, teachers. The loss of a life, this person who will never graduate high school, go to his senior prom, go to college, have a job or family, hold his child in his arms, grow old with his wife and watch his own children triumph. I try to drive home especially carefully. I return home to enjoy my family, reminding myself of both the fragility of life and that most people do grow old and die of old age. Hopefully that will be my fate, and the fate of my family.
It is a good day for it to be raining.
correction: i was told the wrong name.... the student who died was one of my students last term, one of my favorite students... a wonderful person, friendly and ... I'm so very upset.
On my drive home I always contemplate the fragility of life, what death means to other students, parents, teachers. The loss of a life, this person who will never graduate high school, go to his senior prom, go to college, have a job or family, hold his child in his arms, grow old with his wife and watch his own children triumph. I try to drive home especially carefully. I return home to enjoy my family, reminding myself of both the fragility of life and that most people do grow old and die of old age. Hopefully that will be my fate, and the fate of my family.
It is a good day for it to be raining.
correction: i was told the wrong name.... the student who died was one of my students last term, one of my favorite students... a wonderful person, friendly and ... I'm so very upset.