Tuesday, February 19, 2008
An unfortunate wake up call.....
As I drove in this morning to school thinking about the upcoming staff development day I tried to have a positive attitude. Then my thoughts were on school projects again and how I am going to create this "awesome" powerpoint that my class can view and interact with on this rather large T.V. we have in our classrooms. As I pulled up to our school I noticed the Sheriff's car and my heart sank. We have had many break-ins, grafitti and the like at our school but I have managed to avoid having my room broken into, until today... I come to my room and my large screen T.V., four student computers, my own personal ELMO document camera and my CD player have all been destroyed. My room is full of glass and my front window has been bashed in. Every piece of technology in my classroom was destroyed.. How depressing and sad... So I went on with my day in our staff development and returned to clean up my room so that the kids would have a decent and safe room the next day. As I drove home, I cried thinking of how sad it is that someone would actually want to do that to a classroom and to things that belong to kids and teachers.... Rough day for me....
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3 comments:
Angie,
How tragic. I'm glad I previewed your blog. I can't believe anyone would do that in a classroom! I hope the district will be able to file a claim for you and get your equipment replaced. The sad thing, however, is that they can never replace the feeling of being robbed and violated. So sorry.
Matt
How horrible. I'm so sorry to hear about this. It's an awful feeling.
Any progress on replacement equipment yet? That can be a long wait.
I do not understand why anyone would do this. My daughter is the middle school yearbook editor and over the holidays, vandals broke into the classroom, defaced everything and stole the new cameras and computers the teacher had purchased with grant funds. It makes no sense to me at all. I'm sorry you were also a victim. Hang in there.
I'm so sorry to hear about your sad and unfortunate experience. I would find it extremely dismaying if my computer lab had been broken into and destroyed. It doesn't make any sense that anyone in their right mind would do this. I hope you can get your equipment replaced soon.
Sincerely,
RobertS
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