A 24 year old single (white) female elementary teacher
(Chelsea Haley) for “Teach for America” went out of the box completely in adopting
an underprivileged (African American) boy and his brother, as reported on ABC Good
Morning America.
It’s hard to imagine volunteering to become a single
parent, before having one’s own children (if possible) and before marriage (if
possible). In fact, teachers have
typically been discouraged from interacting with students away from the job. In
fact, when I worked as a substitute teacher, my “inaction” in some situations
became a problem.
But the normal social distance that I grew up with and
that was part of the culture now seems to be a problem.
I wanted to add to yesterday’s post about Internet
mistakes (as Dr. Phil has called them) or mishaps, that there was also case in
the summer of 2016 (well before the election) when a FB message (with political
significance) that I had sent to someone and his answer were deleted by the
other person. This has happened only
once. I didn’t see anything wrong with
what we said, but I guess he would rather have carried out this conversation on
Snapchat, which I don’t use.
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