After All Of That...

Posted by Vulnadia on Sep 13, 2009 at 10:48 PM Tuesday came, and after all of the uproar, all of the decision making, putting out fires, attempting to keep things nice and amiable, it was a Tuesday after all. Bregon painstakingly read the speech text, and did his homework. He made his educated decision whatever it was. I as a parent took his permission slip and signed and dated it and gave it back to my child to allow him to do the checking off of the boxes on his own time based on his own decisions and facts. He was very proud and felt very grown up to have been allowed to make a decision like this, and a political one at that. He was off to school, ready for anything, hoping for the best even after the threats from the Friday past. I sat by the cellphone all day long, worrying and wondering, hoping he was going to make it through allright. I went and picked him up after school, and couldn't wait to hear all about it. What I learned was this. After all of the trouble from the week before with his class getting pre-empted twice to try and quell racial remarks made about our nation as a whole, and about the origins of racism, the history teacher (who's class Bregon would be in at the appointed time of the speech) quite got taken up in the moment by his actually getting to TEACH the lesson for once. Yep, he was soo carried away, and soo happy to be teaching his lesson per the plan, that he quite forgot himself, forgot time, and the hour slipped away with nary a speech to show for it, save that lesson planned for the day in World Geography. That's right folks, after all of this, teacher FORGOT to let the kids watch it. He had every intention of watching it, don't get me wrong. Bregon said that the entire class had watched him pull up the tab on his laptop in preparation for the big speech, so his honesty and intent were quite clear to even the most doubting of minds (and trust me there are many a doubting Thomas's in that group!) But, once it was all said and done, the speech went quite forgotten, quietly into history, without a fight or a fuss for my child. Some people think I should be livid, some think I should be relieved. I just didn't understand why I should be livind when we could come home and pull it up anytime we wanted and watch it together ourselves, or even whenever my child got a moment to spend on it. It's out there, in cyberspace, waiting to be watched by those who may have missed it or just want to rewatch for their own sakes. But, after all of that, after all was said and done, someone got carried away teaching a World Geography lesson, grateful that he had an attentive quiet class...