My wife substitute teaches for part of the year. She loves it. She has been replacing a teacher on pregnancy leave this fall. She is teaching kindergarteners. She has amazingly funny stories from their class work. The school she is teaching at has a mix of well-off kids, middle class kids and very poor children.
We both got tears in our eyes tonight as we reviewed her day. One of the little boys has shoes clearly from his older siblings. They are about a size or more too big. He can hardly run. His parents are immigrants from Russia. He trips his way around the playground. Then there was a little girl named Faith. Her family is from the Sudan. Her shoes were one size or more too small. Lori (my wife) had to send her to the nurse to get blisters cared for. They had a pair of shoes they gave her to where.
There is another little girl whose parents are very poor. She has shoes way too small too. Her little feet are in great pain. When she saw Faith got new shoes she wanted some too.
There were none.
We are pretty tight now with the economy and changes in our income. But we are going shoe shopping this week.
You just don’t think about how blessed you are until you get around a bit. We really do need one another.
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