While having dinner with a Maryland public school teacher, we spoke about the system & the children, some specifically. Their parents/guardians or complete lack thereof. Struggles and hopes and sad realizations, thieves of passion.
She showed me a scar from a few years ago, where a child took a bite from her hand. Life at 7 had left him f…
While having dinner with a Maryland public school teacher, we spoke about the system & the children, some specifically. Their parents/guardians or complete lack thereof. Struggles and hopes and sad realizations, thieves of passion.
She showed me a scar from a few years ago, where a child took a bite from her hand. Life at 7 had left him fearful and void of trust. He was eventually sent to a class "better equipped" for his needs. Then hospitalized.
She spoke of another boy in the same second grade age-group, who had suffered traumas and was understandably difficult and disruptive. She visited him recently at his "hospital" to find him alone and in a padded room.
Here's a dedicated public teacher who has been at it for quite a while, recounting the babies moved into overcrowded, ill-equipped hospitals. Into our mental health system when their biggest worries should be on a playground. And I wonder why we don't hear more about them, these lost little ones. Before they become a Jordan Neely news story or another soul we understandably & routinely avoid on the street.
What I find astonishing is that stories like this bring out the need for good and watchful parenting right? Yet when good and watchful parents go to school board meetings because they’ve watched their children targeted by perverts in the public schools, they’re condemned.
While having dinner with a Maryland public school teacher, we spoke about the system & the children, some specifically. Their parents/guardians or complete lack thereof. Struggles and hopes and sad realizations, thieves of passion.
She showed me a scar from a few years ago, where a child took a bite from her hand. Life at 7 had left him fearful and void of trust. He was eventually sent to a class "better equipped" for his needs. Then hospitalized.
She spoke of another boy in the same second grade age-group, who had suffered traumas and was understandably difficult and disruptive. She visited him recently at his "hospital" to find him alone and in a padded room.
Here's a dedicated public teacher who has been at it for quite a while, recounting the babies moved into overcrowded, ill-equipped hospitals. Into our mental health system when their biggest worries should be on a playground. And I wonder why we don't hear more about them, these lost little ones. Before they become a Jordan Neely news story or another soul we understandably & routinely avoid on the street.
What I find astonishing is that stories like this bring out the need for good and watchful parenting right? Yet when good and watchful parents go to school board meetings because they’ve watched their children targeted by perverts in the public schools, they’re condemned.
Can’t have it both ways.