I got to school this morning only to find that ANOTHER of our students, along with her father, was killed in a motorcycle accident last night! This makes AT LEAST one student death in each of the past 5 years. I NEED to vent or maybe the "men in the white coats" WILL be stopping by to take me away.
As the father of a 14 year old, I worry about this sort of thing EVERY DAY and it makes me wonder if there is a GOD, does he have a plan for these "children" who have yet to live their lives??? I can't seem to rationalize the why's of any of these tragedies and don't understand why they happen.
MANY of my students were grief struck this morning and the school provided crisis counselors and psychologists to try to help with their grief. I gave MANY hugs to students who knew her and tried to explain the reasons why these things happen, but I know my words were basically meaningless and really felt helpless in trying to help.
As a musician, the song, "Only the Good Die Young" keeps replaying in my mind and in these cases, young meant anywhere from 14 - 17 years of age over the past 5 years. I am sorry about the ramblings here, but didn't know how else to vent my utter frustration at this point.
Maybe the distractions of Fubar will help today, because I KNOW I certainly need to be distracted. Thank you so much for reading!!!!!
