I am really feelin’ this
I am really feeling my new job. I like it here. I feel like a new person. My children are doing well and I only have one paper left to have completed one full year of schooling towards my Doctoral degree. I finally feel as if I am making some progress in my life. If it were not for me stepping out on faith I probably would not have left my old environment (my job) and I would have again experienced misery for another 190 days…..which is an entire school year. I am grateful for this experience. I have realized that there are some folk out there that do have goals and ambitions. I must admit that I realize that I was so overly exposed to negativity that I had developed a negative perspective on life….on black folk…my people. I was so fucked up until I felt as if the niggamentaliy was the norm for black kids…I was sadden, depressed and sick…..and I mean literally sick at the slothful, unconcerned, complacent, feeling as if the world owes them something, students that I had been dealing with for the last four years. I had lost my drive and ambition for teaching. I had began to look at myself as a glorified babysitter. Well, needless to say I felt as if I were going to have a headache I was going to have one around the corner from my house…and that was my attitude, so I began to work at a school that is about 11 miles from my house as opposed to 40. I started the school year expecting things to be very similar to my old situation. To my surprise, it is not. I know that it is only the third going into the fourth day of school, but I have noticed that the vibe of the school is awesome. The students may not be the brightest porch lights on the block but the difference in this group and my past groups is that these students want to learn…they want to be helped. They listen; they understand the power of knowledge as well as following rules. Don’t get me wrong. I love all of my past students but this new group has really helped me to regain the zeal that I once had for teaching.
