Worth the Effort
A student's accident prompted my little rant today. She's not a bad kid (and really, no one has said she is), but the first comment I heard from someone today was "I wonder if she'd been drinking?" It kind of rankled me and it got me thinking about the double standard we apply to kids. We get a little jaded in education. We sometimes think we have it all figured out. We think we know just how to reach kids. We think we know which ones are the "good" kids and worth the effort and we think we know which ones are the "bad" kids and we should just write them off. Kids don't change, you see. Kids don't grow up and mature. Kids don't realize they need to step up. The "good" kids , the ones worth the effort, the ones that would never cheat the ones that would never party on a Saturday night the ones that make us think school is their number one priority if something happens to one of them, everyone i