Shalom Existence

Normally I would be asleep right now, or at least lying in bed looking at the ceiling in anticipation of tomorrow. The first day of school. But this year is a little different. This year I will not be going back to the small ESOL room filled with students who are speaking in 3 different languages or some broken or wonderfully improving English. It is always amusing to see which students will emerge as the loud ones, the one that talks back, or my favorite, the funny one. Sometimes you cannot help but laugh even if the joke is directed at you.

So, this year it was not meant to be. For reasons I have already lamented, but further am boggled by. My former employer, we’ll call them public school system X, did not consider the big picture or the best interests of everyone when they made the decision to drastically reduce the funding for ESOL programs. I understand that there is a highly politicized climate that tends to not favor immigrants in our area, but to that I would say yet again, is it really our job to punish children who have no choice in coming here? Our constitution lays out education for all students, regardless of legal status . I think anyone who looks closely would see that if chances are not being given to the students, then education cannot take place, even if it is being “provided.” But again I digress. When we start to see the face of Jesus in every face, and start to realize what we are saying about them, we are saying about Him, maybe we can unite as a body that loves, cares, tutors, feeds, teaches, and hugs. Everyone likes hugs! Well, I guess I should say that even if someone feels uncomfortable receiving a hug, they still think, wow, someone cares. I care. So I am sad. Because I don’t know how to anymore without this job. It wasn’t just a job but I know I can do more than what it allowed me to do……Are you there God? It’s me Andrea.

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