Thinking, Waiting, Wishing

i'm starting to think i should pay more attention to the news.

last night was the fall open house for prospective students of vincent high school. i went to distribute information from parents plus. earlier that day, i learned that five students had been arrested during a fight in the school's cafeteria the day before, which may be the reason why only sixteen families showed up.

what i did not find out until this morning was that an additional six students had been arrested the day of the open house, as well as the fact that a student had been tasered during the fight in the cafeteria. two assistant educators had been attacked during the events that led to the arrests, too.

i don't know if i would have gone to the open house if i knew about this.

as easy as it will be for the media to point fingers at the families of these students, i cant help but wonder how involved their teachers are in their lives. it's easy for students to feel like their teachers don't care, especially in a school as large as vincent. teachers tend to only have an individual relationship with the students that excel in class or fall behind. what happens to the average students? they slip through the cracks...