Interesting Observation...

Since Monday I have been subbing in my friend's 6th grade Language Arts class (and this will continue until next Wednesday).  It's amazing how much more kids are aware of today versus when I was in 6th grade.  Maybe I was just oblivious at that age, but some of the things that come out of their mouths are amazing!  Many of them have difficulty reading, writing, and completing math calculations, but start a conversation about boys/girls, Facebook, celebrity lives and they could go on forever.  In Religion, the conversation was about Lent and how people give something up during this time and immediately one of the girls chimed in with a story about how some people are giving up Facebook for Lent.  Now I can't lie, I do check my Facebook everyday, but I'm not obsessed with it.  If today is so much different than when I was in 6th grade, imagine how the world is going to be 10 years from now!  Anyways, I could go on and on with stories about the students, but I'll save some for the days to come (check back tomorrow for another story).  

"In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work.  It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years." -Jacques Barzun