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Wow, I miss being around teaching friends because I need to go have coffee and talk to them, but they are all on different continents so I am gonna shout here a bit.
Without going into detail, of course, just to thoroughly protect some privacy, not that my students know about this blog.
Anyway. As a teacher, I do strive to be someone my students can trust, both with their education and just as an adult in their lives. It doesn't happen often that they really use that trust to get help, but when they do, it's a lot. And it usually happens every couple years. Today, I had a chat with a kiddo about some home life things, some LGBT things, and I think I helped the kiddo as much as I'm able, given the circumstances, but now that I have this info about a kiddo I care about, I just kind of have to sit with it? I'm a person who wants to fix things, make the world be the way I want it to be, and I'm also an adult with enough experience and common sense to understand that's not the way the world works. So I'm gonna go home with this knowledge and come back to work on Monday and at least try to make space in the school day so this kiddo doesn't feel like the world is crashing fully in on them, while still, ya know, trying to do my job and educate them. And at this moment, that knowledge and concern is sitting across my neck and shoulders with nowhere else to go.
Without going into detail, of course, just to thoroughly protect some privacy, not that my students know about this blog.
Anyway. As a teacher, I do strive to be someone my students can trust, both with their education and just as an adult in their lives. It doesn't happen often that they really use that trust to get help, but when they do, it's a lot. And it usually happens every couple years. Today, I had a chat with a kiddo about some home life things, some LGBT things, and I think I helped the kiddo as much as I'm able, given the circumstances, but now that I have this info about a kiddo I care about, I just kind of have to sit with it? I'm a person who wants to fix things, make the world be the way I want it to be, and I'm also an adult with enough experience and common sense to understand that's not the way the world works. So I'm gonna go home with this knowledge and come back to work on Monday and at least try to make space in the school day so this kiddo doesn't feel like the world is crashing fully in on them, while still, ya know, trying to do my job and educate them. And at this moment, that knowledge and concern is sitting across my neck and shoulders with nowhere else to go.
