Day Four

My kids don't go to the school where I teach (not for any particular reason- they were settled before I started teaching), but getting back to the social networking aspect of it that I mentioned yesterday, they are aware of what's going on because, well, as my daughter said, "I saw your picture on Facebook."

I love having the students come to visit and stand with us. The kids and parents are the ones caught in the middle here- they're being seriously inconvenienced or worse, so it's especially gratifying in that nobody asked them to get involved. In fact, we were all told explicitly not to involve the students, but this is a motivated, curious, action-oriented group and they don't want to be just sitting at home pretending it's a snow day. It would be inconsistent with what we see from them every day.

Aside from moral support, the kids bring a break from the tedium. I'm not big on jumping up and down holding signs urging cars to honk their horns, but it's probably the most stimulating of the activities available to us. Plus, and this is the same reason I like teaching in the first place, kids have a whole different perspective that adults do and they ask challenging questions.