This chapter of Teaching Hope
was filled with a lot of tough entries of students who are dealing with major
conflicts and tragedies in their lives.
An entry that inspired a reflection was 79. Throughout the entry, the teacher
is having a hard time having her class calm down. Among the chaotic scene that
is depicted as her classroom, the teacher approaches a sophomore-aged girl,
sitting with her head down on her desk. Once the teacher brings the student out
into the hallway to talk, she opens up about how she had been raped by her
father, miscarried, and her mother didn’t believe her. Additionally, two of her
friends had passed away in the same month. The teacher at the end of the entry
reflects on how and when children’s innocence is lost.
This serves as
an eye opener about what situations I might be dealing with as a future
teacher. As long as my students know I will be in their corner, supporting
them, I do not know how else to handle a situation like that, other than
reporting it to child protective services. This entry made me also reflect on
the absolute change that occurs throughout middle schools and high schools.
With the technology-age, students are now maturing quicker, and losing their
innocence at their own hand, or someone else’s. I guess you really don’t know
how you would react in that situation until you are thrown into it, but it is
helpful reading this text and seeing how different educators respond. This
entry gives some sort of a path most traveled by teachers when responding to
students and their own loss of innocence and heavy hearts.
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