so I thought that I had experienced it all as I am at the back end of student teaching and no more significant problems to speak of..the problem student a problem no more and I actually get through quite a bit of content.
My condolences to you Kat, and to your students. Having had two very prominent students die when I was a senior in high school, I know how devastating it can be for the students, and the teachers. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your students.
and on monday morning I found myself pulling into school with a half smile on my face...and that is when I saw it..in the senior lot, students were gathered around a parking space filled with flowers and candles, posters and ballons..some of these were my students staring into the empty space, the same look on their faces when the world trade center came down, disbelief and anguish...all i thought to myself was that someone is dead i didn't know who but you just know that these kids are not going to deal with this very well at all. Caroline
Barber died, a senior, not one of my students but a student everyone knew and was a school leader...my upperclassmen did not take this very well..they were all so invicible just days ago..you could break them with a whisper now.
I let all my students sit outside and write about light...I wasn't going to make them do anything, it was impossible to do anything..
i think i have hit all possible scenarios, jen says i still have not seen a gun at school so i guess that would be one knock on wood, during student teaching...
kat
By Laura Eckard (Usc_eckard) on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 05:39 am: