News report: Teen hit by car in rural area
Yesterday was a really hard day to be at school. The halls have never been so silent.
As my students walked into my classroom, I invited them to write in their writer's notebooks about their feelings/experiences. Whenever I am going through hard times, I know that I am able to order my thoughts a little more and calm down as I write. Similarly, I think my students appreciated the time just to reflect privately and unload all their emotions onto the blank page. Those who wanted to share afterwards were given that opportunity to do so.
Unfortunately, even though our world seems to stop when we experience tragedy, the world and people around us keep going. I explained to my students that it seemed like a cruel joke that we still had to do state testing, but that is simply the truth. So, today we have testing...and who knows how that will go.
During this whole things, I have shed many tears. I hurt for my students. Some of them were at the party that night and one of my students did CPR on the girl while waiting for help to arrive. I can't even imagine how horrific that experience would be, and I hope that I can be a caring and understanding adult in their lives right now.
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