I know this post will be like kicking a hornets nest, but it’s heavy on my chest.
It is NEVER acceptable for a small group of students to ride with teachers, in said teachers personal vehicle, while 30+ others watch and climb aboard a bus. Yes! There are extenuating circumstances where it MIGHT have to happen, but I would think ONLY in an emergency. Certainly not on a leisurely trip back from a 2 day event…where stopping at the mall was planned for the entire group.
While we are about to leave our school system for good, side note, I still can’t believe my youngest is graduating… I can’t help but wonder what the future is like for those we leave behind. I see so many rules being violated, staff members doing things that borders on illegal (usually for personal gain), irresponsible actions, teachers bullying kids and our kids being short changed in so many areas.
I can’t fix it all. It’s beyond any one person’s ability to fix it. I often piss people off when I even try. Maybe it’s my delivery. I am to the point and I don’t serve it with sugar. In all my years as a volunteer in schools, I knew the rules and I followed them pretty darn close. Sure, a slip up happens. A lapse in judgement or peer pressure happens. But I never would have had students in my vehicle when I was serving as a paid employee of the school district. Even as booster president for a few years, watching our director leave in an ambulance and no staff members on site, I never suggested any student (even friends) ride with any staff member or myself.
Bottom line is this…today was a reminder that, when we lose perspective and think rules don’t apply, or we are above them, it sets a bad example. Parents, tell your kids, even the 18 year olds, to simply NOT put themselves in those situations. Thankfully, nothing life altering has happened…but let’s not count those chickens yet folks. Something is going to happen that wakes us up…I just pray that it is not at the cost of innocent youth.
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“I must let go of those things for which I have no control….but don’t think I won’t tell you about it!”
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