Day 18: "I'm an athiest"

I'm not sure if I've mentioned it, but I LOVE MY JOB. Well, I love the kids I work with, this much is for sure.

I was sitting at my desk correcting papers—It's what I do when none of the students are having any problem behaviors that need to be worked through. They were all angels today. Every last one of them. I don't know what it was—maybe they ate something funny, maybe the teacher was bribing them with cash money, maybe God was having mercy on me—but it was fantastic.

So, I was correcting their social skills homework assignment. This particular assignment involved listing three important opinions that you have and explaining why you have them. Right of the bat, I knew this was going to be a fun one to correct because they were all going to get 100% and what sounds like more fun than reading papers about the important opinions of teenagers?

As I was correcting, I was laughing so hard that I had to relocate to the empty room across the hall to finish. Here are some of the highlights:

H. writes: "I don't like when people feel like they need to share their thoughts about religion. I'm an atheist. My brain just needs cold hard proof that isn't there. If you have a problem with that, you will just need to get over it."

H. also writes: "I love and know a lot about Colonel Sanders. I just think he's great. I don't understand why more people don't like him."

C. writes: "I don't like it when people make gross jokes about body parts. I mean really people, the joke about Uranus is so old. Find some new stuff, will ya?"

S. writes: "I like my mom and horses and Temple Grandin. Other than that, I don't really care."

N. writes: "Global warming is fake. Al Gore just makes things up. I think that the sun is the only thing warming the earth up."

M. writes: "I hate when N. thinks he knows so much about global warming. He thinks that it isn't real. I think that he is nuts." 


 D writes: "I don't like artichokes. I love videogames. I think girls are weird. That is all"

The kids I get to work with everyday are what's right in the world. I just adore my job. I hope you do too.