umm...no.

Once a Student, always yours

I really wanted to come home today and write about how good the last two days have gone since we started the new semester and how exhausted I am, even after having Monday and Tuesday as work days.

I wanted to. But then I found out one of my Poly kids, who I taught for a year during my internship, passed away. Then I found out he took his own life.  Then I found out it was with a gun.  I am so incredibly sad. He, and my other students there, area l can think about.

Two years ago he was a sophomore who could not stop talking, laughing, smiling. Always smiling.  I don’t know whats happened in two years; I’ve been working in the county since then.  Those kids, collectively, were the best thing thats happened to me as a teacher and as a person. So bright, so talented. But they’re still teenagers.  I hope they can lean on each other and pull each other through. I hope none of them ever feel they have do something like this. I hope no teenager’s parents or siblings or friends have to go through this.  RIP Devin.  This teacher loves you all, Poly 2012.

Tags: education. teacher talk. sad. devin.