something that occurs to me now that i'm at a middle school... i am REALLY LUCKY. if you're close to my age, you should consider yourself lucky as well, b/c these kids today... i feel bad for them. here's some reasons why:
1. no french fries in the cafeteria. seriously. in loudoun county, they have every type of potato imaginable: baked, mashed... that's it, right? regardless, no fried. i think that's an injustice. i REALLY hope it's not about being healthy, b/c... let's not kid ourselves. we all know what the score is.
2. my school had their first school dance today. i don't know if any of my peers that do not teach in a school would be able to guess the starting time of this dance. 3:30... PM. school ends at 3:18, first song starts at 3:30. on a thursday. our middle school dances were on fridays and it was at night. when you walked inside the building, the sun was not visible any longer.
3. online grade books. all teachers in this county work with a software called clarity. and each student has a password to it. which means their PARENTS have a password to it. when we were in school, changing your grades was a part of life for some people i knew. it was a tool in their fight for survival every 9 weeks. now, the parents can check your grades every day.
4. a reason related to halloween: i told my kids today about how my friends and i would hit up like 2 to 3 different neighborhoods and the amount of the candy at the end of the night was bananas. i remember there were years when my friends and i would recycle costumes and hit up our neighborhood more than once, since we still had our old costumes. my kids told me they would start around 5pm, go once around the neighborhood and be back home, especially since today is a weekday. huh???
seriously... thank you God that i grew up when i did.
