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Date Posted: 16:24:24 06/19/02 Wed
In reply to:
Coyotek4
's message, "My turn." on 17:15:52 04/19/02 Fri
I can totally understand your situation, as I was once in that situation myself. I don't know where you live, but I was living in Philadelphia, and the situation was the same.
And you are absolutely right. Kids in the inner city should want to get out of their impoverished conditions and seek a better life for themselves. Unfortunately, I think in some situations, the kids are the way they are because the parents may be a bit messed up as well. Not always, but in a lot of situations, it can be that way.
There are a lot of single-parent families in the inner city. There are children being raised by aunts or uncles or grandparents. There are kids who are in and out of jail because of the environment they live in. There are kids who, because they are teenagers, and this is the "experimentation" stage, they are getting involved with sex and drugs at an early age. Not something that we want to think about when we have children that age, either. (I am single, and I have no children, but I know that I wouldn't want to face having a child who was going astray of the way I was trying to bring him/her up at home.)
I have been both a regular and a substitute teacher and without full certification in both cases, and I truly agree and sympathize with what you have said above. I am going to be going back to school soon to get full certification, and I hope to be done in less than a year, as I had started at Temple University when I was in Philly, but trying to teach kids who didn't want to learn as well as go to school at night and try to learn from professors who sometimes rambled on and on and on about things that really didn't have much to do with the subject they were supposed to be teaching you, and it was a course required for certification...that was extremely difficult, but it did give me some valuable experience and life lessons as well.
BTW...you can also drop by my message board next door...Omar's Place...if you want. I would really like to hear from you, and the more people I get to come by and talk about whatever over there, the better. (However, I have a no-profanity rule at my board.)
I will say a little prayer for you when I get the chance. I hope your situation does improve.
In God's love,
Omar
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