TWYH Pages 104-140

Erin's second year was just... WOW. She dealt with students who have dealt with death, students who live in poverty, and others who are with gangs. I've always thought about how would I be able to deal with the situations of the loss of a student, or students who have dealt with hardships that I never had to deal with. Like when Tommy told Erin what ended up happening with his cousin and his best friend. A situation I've thought about was what about deaths that are results of accidents. For example, in high school a well known girl died in a car accident and the person driving was a peer of ours. As a teacher it would obviously be hard dealing with the loss of a student and her friends but how do you treat the kid that was driving? If it was me I would want to help him/her in anyway that I could but what do you say to them??

Another part that hit me in these chapters was when Zlata and her family came and they had that huge ordeal of a celebration. The kids were like many of us were back in Elementary school when we had open house or some special event for school. We were always so excited to show our parents what we had made or learn and we wanted to introduce them to everyone. That's what these guys reminded me of, but I was thinking about the fact that they probably didn't have the feeling of being proud of themselves at that age like I did.