Teacher Comics: Good Mood Food
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This entry was posted on October 2, 2014 at 6:20 am and is filed under 2014-2015 school year with tags comics, education, journal comics, teacher comics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Teachable Moments
November 25, 2014 at 7:51 pm
This might not be the situation with this student, but it occurred to me that sometimes a student might hit up Arby’s at 7am on the way to school if breakfast hadn’t been provided at home. Let’s say, hypothetically, that Mom works third shift. Maybe she’s a nurse, maybe she works at a factory. And maybe Dad has already left for work. So she’s supposed to get herself up, get dressed, make herself breakfast and head to school. But she’s a teenager, so it was hard to get to sleep before midnight and she needs 9 hours of sleep, so she hit the snooze button three times and in that moment stopping at Arby’s on the way to school, spending the money she earned herself, and eating as she walks the rest of the way seems like the better choice. I’m not saying you should let her eat in your class, but I know for a fact that if my boys stopped at Arby’s on the way to school, they’d pick the milkshake, too. (They’re in middle school and our school has a good breakfast program, so we’re not there, but this is definitely one of those “There but for the Grace of G*d go I” moments.)