it seems every time i leave context i have a cloud of gloom living in my brain and i just want to go home and cry, that is if i had the time to do so...
today was like that.
there is just so much stuff we would like to ignore and pretend is not there and it is really hard to stare it in the face and talk about it.
everyone has an experience with bullies in some way, and it's surprising it didn't come up much as a topic along with race/sex/class, and were it not for the presentation would we have talked about it at all?
thank you to everyone who shared, personal experience is a good thing to keep in mind when you see in it your classroom. everyone deserves to be safe.
i said that bullying makes a person stronger but really, i wasnt condoning bullying in any way.
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As I said on my blog, We need to sit and talk about life matters more often. But if we can't talk bacause the tv's on, or can't talk because the curriculum has no room for it, or because it too "taboo" then we will never talk about it.
People will only write books that eventually appear in the shelves at Value Village for 99 cents, and the topic still lingers on.
Why can't we just stop the name calling, hating, gender differences, the perfect body, the organic coca-cola, the lightest Digital cam, the largest Hummer...
Who cares!
I cary a quote with me in my mind and it goes like so:
The race of life is long, but in the end it is only with yourself.
Don't hate yourself for your voice, you hair colour, your birth mark. The only person that lives with that is you, becasue you choose to hold onto it.
"World Peace"
"good luck"
Yeah, I am so stealing this group's presentation for my course next time I teach it. It will mean cutting a class from the media stuff, but that's okay.
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