feeling

Feeling the need to blog then a good workout after. A crazy day at work. You may have heard on the news, 14 year old teen found dead near my school. Yep, went to my school last year. And now another kid that went to my school last year is arrested for doing the killing. Shot the kid in the head. Possibly over a stupid conflict. This is why we do what we do at Eisenhower but we can't control the choices they make when they leave us. We work hard to give kids a safe place to come when there is a conflict or bullying situation and we work hard not to minimize it and to help them resolve it. Because when you don't, this is the nonsense that can happen. So I spent the morning doing crisis counseling with all the hurting, hurting kids and staff who loved this kid. And others who weren't close but just feel a real loss of innocence. Yes, this is a world where two 14 year old kids can't work out a conflict over something small and it results in a dead kid in a field. Unbelievable.