Service/Meetings at Arts

By going to the two meetings and completing the community service at Arts has given me some insight to what exactly i will be getting myself into. For community service I helped the guidance office organize all of the contestants in this contest that was going on between different high schools in Newark. I got to watch the videos that these kids put together and they were very powerful things to see. Some of the problems these kids talked about in their poems and videos are things I have not even been through before in my life. By doing this service it has shown me that I have to be prepared for everything. Certain kids might go through certain things other kids do not go through. I have to be ready to maybe see or hear about things I am not used to. The meetings I attended at Arts also had the same effect on me. I attended two staff meetings at Arts and the second one stood out more than the first one. At the second meeting the faculty was talking about the end of the year and students who were close to missing more days then they were allowed to and still pass. There was a list passed around of all the kids who had an outstanding amount of absences and the reasons why they were out so many times. I will not go into the reasons why some were out, but i will say that some of the things were surprising to me. Like i said before, these two things have opened my eyes a little to the fact that everything is not just good and easy. I know now things will be tough being a teacher, but i feel like i am ready for it.