Impact

After class on Tuesday night I decided I would log on to the blog and get my homework completed. Our IT staff decided to update the computers and shut everything down as I was logging out. At this moment I also realized I had misplaced my G-mail account information, throughout the week everytime I attempted to log on something else came up.I am normally much better prepared and this left me wondering why.

This week I realized I was getting caught up in the day to day stuff around teaching and getting overwhelmed with a ton of meetings and stuff. By Friday I felt I was losing sight of my students.

On Friday I received a e-mail from a parent that really answer the question of the week, NOW I know why.

The e-mail was about a new student who has moved in from Florida and joined my class on the third day of school. The mom said that his step dad is in jail and she decided to move to the mountains to start a better life for her family. She said that after the first day of school she could not get her son up for school and had to call her pastor and get him to come to the house and take her son to school. This week she noted a change in him and said when he got home he would not stop talking about my class.He said he could not wait to come to school because of my class.The e-mail had a very big impact, because, I thought I was not getting through to him.

I started my weekend humbled but excited that I have made a difference.