Morning, all. Thanks for all the nice words. I wish there was a way to zap them to the family.
I'm so sorry, Erin. Is there a fund set up for the family?
We have been doing fundraisers like crazy -- I'm so proud of my kids. We had two dress-down days, and kids made tamales and sold them, and our registrar who just opened a Mexican bakery, gave them a shitload of cookies and pan dulce to sell. So the community of coming together to help, which let me say, is one of the reasons I love my job and workplace so much. It's awesome to work at a small school, cause it really truly does feel like a family. Family with gang issues, but family.
Suzi, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!
Trudy, I am so sorry I dropped you last night. I got a long phone call from my folks about Car and then went back, and then they called again, and I...forgot you and went to sleep. I am a bad IMer. But we're in the middle of a poetry unit, and my kid have really been using it to work through their grief issues, which makes it a more potent lesson about the power of writing than I can ever just blah-blah-blah to them about. Sad, but potent. And this ki HATES to write....but he's using it to deal. Which I am loving, in a sad way. You know?