Sarah has been told to never take anything of value to school. Evidently she has been taking her ipod because today while she was in swimming class it was stolen out of her pocket in the unlocked locker. The ipod also held the digital photos for my research (yes, I've got copies but I store things in different places) and about three years of Christmas, birthday and 'just because' gifts of itunes songs. Total loss? 800 dollars. I've told her and all of the kids to never take anything to school that they can't replace on their own. I told her it was like leaving 800 dollars out in the open. And it's more than that because there were girls searched due to the theft - now, she's going to have some other girls very angry and embarrassed. The ipod wasn't found. She wanted to come home from school and I told her no. I wasn't gong to come get her over this. I've told Sarah how evil girls can be to each other for no damn reason. I told her about a girl I knew in high school who had her long hair cut off just because other girls were mad at her. I told her about how a girl was held down and hit in the head with a high heel shoe because other girls were jealous of her. I told her about the days I spent in the library to avoid some girls who wanted and who would have beat me up if they could have caught me by myself. I've told her how Black children, sometimes, seem to hate the proper talking kids. And I've told her about how administration generally does nothing until something happens. Taking that ipod to school was a violation on so many different levels that I don't even know where to begin.
On the other hand, my child is miserable. She's undoubtedly going to face some retaliation from the girls in her gym class. She has her own crew too and they will undoubtedly give her sympathy and make this thing bigger than it has to be. My official "ruling?" This is your fault. That thing was never supposed to be at school. But it's so much more than that. She said to me, "why can't I trust my classmates for 1 hour?" Why not indeed, Baby Sarah? Why not?
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