support

On Thursday night, an interesting dilemma fell into my lap. I discovered from my youngest sister, who just graduated high school last year, that my high school was literally falling into shambles. After my high school principal passed away in 2001, the leadership of the high school fell into numerous incapable hands. Turnover was high. At the same time, the vision of the school started to change. See, I attended a religious high school, but the school, for whatever reason, started becoming less religious. In the most recent news, the most influential teacher in my entire academic career (which includes college) was fired with a handful of other teachers.

I was brought to the attention of a Facebook group that was formed by current high school students to save the teachers who were canned. The group’s wall has an incredible outpouring of support by the high school students. I graduated high school a long time ago, but I still have a connection to the school — more so, I feel an obligation towards the teachers whose careers I feel were unjustly terminated.