So, most of you know that Javier's truck got broken into this weekend while he was visiting his friend in San Antonio. No he wasn't down town, now he wasn't on the South Side, and no he wasn't even in a neighborhood or anywhere he shouldn't have been! He was at the BRAND NEW SHERATON HOTEL @ THE SHOPS OF LA CANTERA!!! AUGH!!!
I do blame him for leaving his stuff in the car, but I can't stay that I wouldn't have either, a brand new hotel $300 a night - you think that it would have some security!
Anyway... Thankfully they didn't break the window, just the lock. Stole the radio, zune, camera (that I gave him last year for Christmas) some random things in his console, and his cowboy hats... including the one George Strait gave him...
I am really struggling with this and my own feelings of mankind. I work hard, very very hard to get the things I have and have given to Javier. I do not understand how people can just take other people's things. I can not even throw a straw wrapper out of my window because of my guilt... I can't take more than 2 mints at Chic-fil-a because I think that would be stealing...
I think of my kids at work... I see some of my 8th graders (well my former students I guess) and see how they disregard everyone around them and do and take what they want... it scares me. I think of my 6th graders and how sweet and innocent they are, but can already see them changing... I see them looking around them, at the other kids, at tv, music videos, professional athletes, actors, older brothers and sisters, parents, and community members... I see them look at them and want to be like them... lazy, mean, selfish, insensitive to anyone else around them...
I think of our future kids... what kind of world will they be growing up in? There are things that my students see/deal with that I never imagined... what will develop for my own babies that I can't imagine?
I think about the poor boy in Florida torched over a $40 video game and bike... burned from head to toe... 13 years old that if he lives, will have a horrible hard painful future ahead. I think of the 4 teenagers who threw the alcohol on him and lit the match that they threw on him... How can you be so hateful at such a young age... how?
I think about the Teacher in San Antonio, who's kids constantly stole her drink off her desk. Day in day out she told them to stop, and they didn't... they kept drinking from it. So last week she put tabasco sauce in the cup instead of Dr. Pepper, the kids took bug gulps and got sick. She has been suspended for her actions... The Teacher has gotten in trouble for the KIDS stealing her stuff!
I'm scared that my students watch SouthPark - and think that it is ok for an 8 year old to be a pimp... I'm scared that they think it is ok for men to solicit prostitutes in college... TV these days is ridiculous. I just saw a cartoon character fart sperm into an evidence bag. "a pimp that respects his hoes. Yeah, he treats his bitches right..." ON TV!!
I'm disgusted right now with my country... Is this what Jefferson wanted when he and the other founding fathers wanted by fighting for freedom? Freedom to excel in life or freedom to screw up everyone else's lives? Freedom to work hard and earn a better living than your father, or freedom to steal someone else's belongings. Freedom to fall in love with any person no matter race, religion, or economic standing.... or Freedom to call girls bitches and hoes and sleep with whoever you want. If I hear from a kid again that has been given a direction "its a free country" I will lose it... I don't know how to make it better, I do not know how to fix it... I don't know how much more I can watch...
I sure hope this week brings me joy and hope. I am down. I am very very down - lost, scared, worried, unsure, mad, sad, angry and just royally pissed off. I apologize for some of the language in this post... sadly its not something you wont hear on Nick @ Night or Disney Channel these days...
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