Things I Will Miss
When I leave my school. (No doubt I will add to this list over the coming months)
* Random visits from former students to say “thanks” in person, or to drop a cute, drooling baby in my lap and play with everything on my desk.
* Class room presenations which begin with a student questioning/screaming/asking how God could kill his father, then he first step dad, then his second step dad, but then ending with the realization that he now does believe God exists, even though said God is now hated.
* A student finding out I’m a Christian and saying “holy s__! You were so unbiased. I respect you even more now!”once me playing devil’s advocate in Philosophy class is over.
* A girl coming to grips with the fact that the only reason she called an embryo “a chunk of meat” and not a person, was because she would have to say her mom murdered “her little brother” when she had an abortion.
* One of mine, who knew it was my birthday, making the class get up and sing for me, like I always do for them.
* Trash talking to the Broncos, who can’t win one of three games to get into the play offs, and mentioning the Red Sox whenever someone walks by wearing Rockies gear.
* Saying “we’ll cover that more indepth next year if you take philosophy” to my juniors, knowing at least half of them will.
* Having my kids tell me that they hope I’ll stick around long enough to have their younger siblings, cousins, and maybe children one day in my class.
* Thoughtful gifts purchased by my kids when they know I miss the ocean.
* My colleuges/family
* A room of my own to store my dummies and bomb.
* The holes in the walls and ugly orange carpet.
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* Random almost midnight emails asking about Thomas Hobbes’ theistic beliefs.
*Parents walking into my room after school, younger children in tow, just to say “my kid talks about you all the time, and I wanted to meet you.”
*The type of subversive anarchy that we share in class.
* Inside district 50 jokes.
* The wonderful and stupid questions I’ve heard for 5 years.
(Today was a good day)
* My open door policy being applicable to people without them having to get on a plane to use it.
* Being asked questions for group/ind projects which require me to first stop and compliment one of my kids for thinking like some famous philosopher without even trying.
* Allowing a student to come in late with limited hassle, because he needed to get something to eat because he gave up pot the day before and is going through some weird withdrawls.
* The “you need to meet my new significant other (so you can judge him/her” emails.
* Directly dealing with stupid parents and cowing them.
* Grading at Barnesbucks and Starbles.
Today broke my heart.