Lathrop HS and Woodriver Elementary

Monday I was at Lathrop helping some "angry young men" get through the day. We are such fragile people, it seems to me. Here, again, are teenagers struggling with a world too large, too cold, too lost, to be able to give them any echo chamber for who they should be. I had one fellow hand in a sheet that asked him to list "four things you can do to help you meet your goal(s)". In angrily slanted writing, a kind of writing meant to cut through this kind of question, he wrote:
1. nothing
2. nothing
3. nothing
4. nothing

On another sheet, for another question, he said the thing he wished for most was an ability to concentrate.
There's someone in there, I could tell.
I was also sent on an hours-long errand into the Lathrop High School yearbook archives. I was tasked with collecting photos for a retirement party for a teacher who'd been at Lathrop since graduating there in 1966 (minus a few years for college and kids). I snuck a look at a friend of mine's profile from years ago and found out that she had run for the "Miss Teen Alaska Peagant"! She was awfully cute, of course :)

Today I was at an elementary school with the young kids with FAS, ADD, etc. Another good day, but another one for learning and patience.