It's a beautiful day out today, and I am stuck in a room of about 14 adolescent boys and 1 girl. I have Sat. school duty. Sat. school duty is interesting. Intially I was always thankful I got the exta monies that came with having to come into work on a Sat. The more I think about it though, the more I feel like it's a way of enabling students to not do their work.
Most students I've come across will save up work that they did not want to do and do it in a 4 hour stretch on Sat. Why? Why not just do the work the first time around, do less at home, and have your Sat. free? I'm still trying to figure out the answer to that one.
I thought about that a little bit more, and I realized that many of the students these days are home alone. Both parents are having to work to make ends meet. They don't want to be home because essentially they have no one home to go home to.
So sad....
Being a public school teacher has really worn on me emotionally. I know I've been placed here for a reason, and that there are great ministry opportunities here. I definitely don't feel like my work here is done. I crave to be home with my kids, but I can't help but think, "who else will help them?"
So...
Here I am, on a Saturday, bored out of my mind...blogging...
I have Sat. school duty...
1 comment:
Sorry you had to work on Sat! I feel the same way with the population I am working with right now, which is always very difficult. But you're right, someone has to do it and it definitely is a good ministry tool. Kudos for sticking with it!
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