Oh no you didn't...

We made George Washington three-corner hats today and worked on a shapes book at centers today. The kids were extra excited about me today, I don't know what makes one day different from the next. But when I left today, and Mrs. Brasler said it was time to say goodbye to me, they all went, "Awwww...." and said some goodbyes and some I love you's. Melt my heart.

Walking Addison back from the nurses office in her wheel chair she said to me, "You know what the teacher said about you?" I said, "I do not, what did she say?" She said, "The teacher says you're doing a really good job." Melt my heart again.

However, just to prove that not everything about kindergarten is touchy-feely. The current controversy is that a parent of one of our students has made a racial comment to the district about the number of Hispanics in our classroom. I was absolutely shocked and almost immediately sick to my stomach. It makes me sick that people can treat others as less than human and less deserving because of their ethnicity or the color of their skin. Sheltering a child from the diversity of this world will do nothing to help them grow and learn and it hurts me that this attitude is so easily passed from parent to student and that is why racism and discrimination is still so prevalent. It's just so hard for me to understand how people can be that way, or think that way.

Our hispanic students are just as deserving of these opportunities and just as worthy of love and affection and effort as any Caucasian student; or any other student for that matter. They are all entitled to equal opportunities and equal representation in a classroom. I am SO proud of our ELD students because even if they are not up to par with the other kindergarteners, the strides they have made and the eagerness they have shown surpasses that of some of their more advanced peers. It just makes me so angry that people feel that they have the right to treat others that are different from them as unequal or undeserving.

ANGER.