Day 14. Again.

Today U.S. History Honors rummaged around the trash can of knowledge for the small leftovers I am still allowed to teach. Then they left.

Comprehensive law would not stop talking about how to get away with espionage, escape prison, have a successful crime spree, or commit murders for profit. I really don't know what got into them. Then afterwards played a rousing game of "Law Hunger Games" where we discovered just how ruthless they could be to win, but that was not surprising considering their previous conversations.

The real drama began in AICE Global Perspectives Insecurity. Someone beat the creativity out of these poor children like a rug being beaten for dust. After being given freedom to explore their own ideas on a classroom project, they froze. It was sad to see them not knowing which side of the crayons to color with, what an illustration is, or what the words "creative freedom" means. Here is a list of questions I had to answer in class:

"Is this ok?"

"Is this ok??

"Is this ok???

"Is this ok????

Each time it was asked it was with the energy of someone asking where the lifeboats were kept on a sinking ship. Have these children never been given the freedom to express themselves? I fear they have not. We are not creating Picassos or O'Keefes. We are creating a generation of binary minded thinkers that malfunction when given freedom. I will fix them though. By the end of the year they will be as creative as that elephant that paints pictures. (If you decide to fact check me, look up Ruby. Not Suda. Suda is a fraud.)

Rarely does a straight line exist in nature, as we are all tendrils curling up the trees toward the eternity of the sky behind the clouds. If we do not get to turn towards the sun sometimes, then surely we will just drop colorless to the earth.