My career...
As a Sunday School teacher.
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I am a Sunday School teacher at a Lutheran church in Lancaster. I really don’t even think I am worthy enough to teach children about Christianity when I do not act like a true Christian myself. At school when I am around my friends… I am a whole different person than when I am around my church congregation or in public. I curse and swear at school, I talk about people when I know I shouldn’t, and I do envy people. But maybe they wanted me to take up the chore of teaching them because they only knew the other me… the me that they think is a perfect angel, the me they think hasn’t done anything wrong. I don’t know… but I think teaching these kids is the best thing for me as a sinner.
I have such a WIDE variety of children in my class. They consist of about 4 1st and 2nd grade kids a week. Of those kids, here is the diversity.
One of the children in there is Noah. He is the Paster’s youngest son of 6 boys. Yet, he is extremely mature for his age. He is left handed, very quiet, always sits by himself, and loves to read. He entered first grade this year. One of the strangest things I notice is that every time I try to settle another child down, he will get out this packet of phonics books his mom got him and start reading. He is extremely smart, and very well settled with the fact he has 5 rowdy older brothers (One is a junior in college and the youngest older one is in 6th grade.)
Another one is Graham… he is one of the rowdiest boys of the bunch. He is very loud, always wants to be the center of attention, and is also left-handed. He is the second youngest; (In highest to lowest birth order) A brother, Evan; a sister Grace; (Graham), and the youngest brother Peter. Peter acts just like Graham, and Evan and Grace are very mature. Graham is one of those types of kids who likes to push you to the limit… if you said Jesus died for our sins, he will ask “Why?” just to test you. Or he will say something like “I hope I die” out of no where, OR draw me dieing from a monster biting my head off… I think it is to get attention, because he is a very outgoing child with a loving family. He is very intelligent, and I think he goofs off in my class because he isn’t being challenged… (I have to teach 1st and 2nd grades… he is excelling in second…)
Colin… Also a very shy boy… left-handed. He is now getting to be more noisy because he is gradually being brainwashed by Graham. Great kid, also very smart.
Shelby. She is quite a character. I had her AND he sister McKaula last year… they are a handful. Shelby and McKaula come from a very troubled environment, their real mom is going in her 3rd marriage now because their old step-dad used to beat her and the girls and their real dad I think just divorced for no reason. Shelby always tell me she loves me, but when I first started teaching she was very hesitant about me. She would say she hated herself and she wanted to die. Sometimes she threw herself under the table and was crying… I had to let all the kids out of the room while I talked to her one-on-one. She is a great girl… but is a little behind academically because of her family situation, but would grow up to make a really good school councilor. She loves to talk about issues she is having and is right-handed.
Those are the regulars… sometimes, I have a couple more… but those four are the ones that come basically every Sunday.
I love to work with the 4 of them… But now I know that being a teacher is a lot harder than it looks. I will never take for granted the teachers I have had in the past, or the ones I will have in the future.
Teaching makes the next generation bigger and brighter than the last.
~Sam
I have such a WIDE variety of children in my class. They consist of about 4 1st and 2nd grade kids a week. Of those kids, here is the diversity.
One of the children in there is Noah. He is the Paster’s youngest son of 6 boys. Yet, he is extremely mature for his age. He is left handed, very quiet, always sits by himself, and loves to read. He entered first grade this year. One of the strangest things I notice is that every time I try to settle another child down, he will get out this packet of phonics books his mom got him and start reading. He is extremely smart, and very well settled with the fact he has 5 rowdy older brothers (One is a junior in college and the youngest older one is in 6th grade.)
Another one is Graham… he is one of the rowdiest boys of the bunch. He is very loud, always wants to be the center of attention, and is also left-handed. He is the second youngest; (In highest to lowest birth order) A brother, Evan; a sister Grace; (Graham), and the youngest brother Peter. Peter acts just like Graham, and Evan and Grace are very mature. Graham is one of those types of kids who likes to push you to the limit… if you said Jesus died for our sins, he will ask “Why?” just to test you. Or he will say something like “I hope I die” out of no where, OR draw me dieing from a monster biting my head off… I think it is to get attention, because he is a very outgoing child with a loving family. He is very intelligent, and I think he goofs off in my class because he isn’t being challenged… (I have to teach 1st and 2nd grades… he is excelling in second…)
Colin… Also a very shy boy… left-handed. He is now getting to be more noisy because he is gradually being brainwashed by Graham. Great kid, also very smart.
Shelby. She is quite a character. I had her AND he sister McKaula last year… they are a handful. Shelby and McKaula come from a very troubled environment, their real mom is going in her 3rd marriage now because their old step-dad used to beat her and the girls and their real dad I think just divorced for no reason. Shelby always tell me she loves me, but when I first started teaching she was very hesitant about me. She would say she hated herself and she wanted to die. Sometimes she threw herself under the table and was crying… I had to let all the kids out of the room while I talked to her one-on-one. She is a great girl… but is a little behind academically because of her family situation, but would grow up to make a really good school councilor. She loves to talk about issues she is having and is right-handed.
Those are the regulars… sometimes, I have a couple more… but those four are the ones that come basically every Sunday.
I love to work with the 4 of them… But now I know that being a teacher is a lot harder than it looks. I will never take for granted the teachers I have had in the past, or the ones I will have in the future.
Teaching makes the next generation bigger and brighter than the last.
~Sam
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