Stop the presses everyone - it looks like Armageddon has arrived!
As much as we can make light of the fact that we 'only' had a 5.9 earthquake and that Floridians have hurricanes all the time and survive, a 10-year old experiencing these things for the first time has every right to be frightened.
I was reading through their daily journals today and I came across several students who wrote about their fears. It is incredible how much kids have to say if only they had someone to listen and take them seriously! The depth of their thoughts is beyond anything I could have imagined, speaking with an earnestness that can only come from a mind still so uncorrupted.
If only a standardized test could show the value of child's thoughts, then perhaps we could truly have no child left behind.
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