Teenagers

The best thing about teenagers is that they often exceed our expectations.  Our school had a chance to be involved in a service project to raise money and beautify our school sponsored by Comcast.  The neighboring school had around 500 volunteers participate last year.  Our goal was 650.  We had 1, 068 people show up and work for 3-4 hours cleaning, planting, weeding, and painting.  As I went around taking photos, it amazed me to see these kids giving up a Saturday morning to give service to their own school.  I saw lots of smiles and no complaining.

Today, I read through the blogs my students started for their projects.  Again, they far exceeded my expectations.  I knew most of them would be able to navigate the technology (most of them far better than I can!) but they are so open about what interests them.  I don't always get to see that passion in traditional assignments, and this has been a real treat so far.  This is one of the many reasons I love my job!