Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Education with a ‘Purpose’

Oh my lordee! We just did some classroom presentation in a small private religious school with about 10 kids ranging from K-12, all in one classroom. And wow, what a group of kids! Not to mention the fact that the teach took off to make Christmas wreaths out in the hall. I was so glad it was a practice run that Lorena was doing to show us Americorps some classroom presentations! Cause boy were there some crazy, socially inept, undisciplined and just plain annoying kids in that classroom! It was actually at times very entertaining in a very sad way.

So get this, on the door of the girls bathroom there was a sign that said, “God made little girls to have his children”! and then Matt told us about the sign in the boys bathroom that said, “God made little boys to do his work.” Put those together and god made little boys (not men) to impregnate his little girls (not women)… ahahah! Yikes. Sadly entertaining.

Anyhow this day really made me think a lot about my personal beliefs and biases and how in education, you really have to be willing to set those aside and deal and adapt to your audience, even if they are CRAZY! (or believe drastically different from yourself, especially if you disagree with it.)

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