Teaching Style
So I had to take a class of seniors to a convocation last week. It was a convo about rape, designed to get to them before they go off on spring break. There were 800 loud high school seniors in one room, rowdy and ready for their trips to Cancun. The first thing they did was get a "theater troupe" to enact a "situation" where a group of friends are drinking way too much, a guy gets too "friendly" with a girl who doesn't feel like that about him, and they freeze the situation. They ask the crowd if there is any danger in the room? What do you think the crowd is going to say? Of course they will not admit that date rape could occur! The whole convocation was done poorly and it made me realize, yet again, why I don't want to teach in the public schools. The message was that the kids were going to drink and have sex, but "no means no" and don't take advantage...but where do you draw the line, as pagans, if the girl does not say no, but doesn't want to sleep with the guy? As Christians, the answer is easy...no drunkenness and no premarital sex. And I wanted to scream that at them! But I couldn't. They just weren't able to get through to the kids, and they really couldn't...their hands were tied. I want to be a mentor for my students, to be able to help them with their problems, and guide them. Not to substitute for their parents, but to act as a support. And that is just not possible in the public school system. My ultimate authority is the Bible...theirs is relativity. And I think they are being hypocrites when they try and impose what they feel is right, on people who should not "have" to listen. Anyway, I knew I would teach in a Christian school, this is just one more thing that has shown me that I made the right decision. That way I can teach with a Christian mindset, with God as the author of all creation, the author of everything. Educating a child in the fear and admonition of the Lord is the only way to go.