School’s Out!
“When I think about it, oh, I am really sad—for about 30 seconds,” a teacher recently confessed to me. We were talking about the impending end of the school year. Actually, that pretty well sums up how most of the students feel about it too; at least, that’s how I remember it. From the elementary grades through high school, the end of the school year was always the same. I was sad about saying goodbye to my favorite school activities, like art, reading, music, recess, and the noon hour. I would miss seeing my friends every day, and most years, I would even miss my teachers. But any feelings of sadness were quickly replaced with a welling up of anticipatory joy for being set FREE! I could imagine what prisoners and indentured servants might feel when told that their shackles would be unlocked and their prison doors would be opened…