Lockdown

You all know that iwork with middle school kids. And the fact that it has been crazy hard is not of any type of secret to anyone. If you didn't know i work in a title one school which in my own words (and everyone else) plain and simple means i work in the getto. Yes people the getto! i work across the street from the jail and the students sometimes act as if they just walked out of that certain jail. But you know, you get used to it and you develop a certain concern and care for your students.. they are not all bad. and the ones that are, are only acting the only way they know, survival of the fittest people. Well, yesterday i was slapped in the face with the reality, once again, of where i work. We had a lockdown yesterday. for those of you who don't know what that is, well you need to watch Degrassi and get into what kids are into now a days. HA! thats one fucked up school, you should see it some time. Anyways, lockdown happens when something in the community has happened and we have to lock our doors and no one can move. WEll the thing is that five guys from the jail had escaped and the police where all over our neighborhood, with guns i might add, looking for them. So we were stuck with the students until almost 5 pm (schools out at 3:50). It was a crazy day and a crazy event.