On Friday, I found out that one of my students who has made such marvelous progress in the six weeks that she has been at our school is being transferred to another foster family. That stinks on ice. I gave her a hug and told her that we were at the mercy of others in this instance. I gave her my card with my home and cell numbers on them. I'm going to make sure and write to her at her new school. This child needs to be shown how grown ups act when teenagers have problems. She's going to be in the system for a long time. I doubt either of her parents will leave incarceration before she graduates high school.
My second run-away of the year returned to school. She is so so bright and could really benefit from an education. I told her that an education was the ticket to doing what she wanted to do and that there were 3 billion dudes on the planet and she wasn't going to run out of time for dudes. She is going to do "home schooling" as soon as her court-ordered stint in ISS is over. *sigh*
One of my students was really struggling with Lewis Electron Dot Structure and really "got it" after I took 3 minutes to work with him. 3 minutes and he has the primary and secondary quantum numbers for an electron down! Woohoo!!!
Those moments are why you become a teacher.
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