Mi manana en clase de espanol

So I spent this morning in Spanish class. I really enjoyed it; most of the classes were learning about the Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean dictator who was responsible for at least 3,000 deaths and over 29,000 people being tortured. We listened to the song that brought international attention to this problem by Sting called "They Dance Alone (Gueca solo)" and attempted to watch a video on YouTube (didn't work as planned). At the end of one of the class periods the students were asked to think about "what a Christian response to this type of situation?"

That question made me think on two issues. First, the obvious, "what is the Christian response to such issues?" And it made me think about an issue I discussed in my previous post on Mustard Seed and religion. I am a strong advocate for knowing what is going on in the world around us; how are we, as Christians, supposed to seek justice for those for whom justice is being perverted, if we are unaware where justice is being perverted? So, I was really excited to see that issues outside another countries cultures, economies, and such are being explored AND what is even more exciting in my eyes is that students at such a young age are asked to look at these issues critically and think about what their responses as Christians should be. This particular exercise made me more excited to see how MS deals with religious content because I really felt as though as if students were not being taught doctrine, but in having to think about what their response should be they were able to form their own beliefs in a safe place with guidance.

I decided today that the Resource Room will probably be my favorite place in the Mustard Seed School, not necessarily because the teachers in here are fabulous and cooler than all the other teachers (although they are fabulous), but because class room management is not an issue in here like it is in other places. Today in Spanish there were a few classes that really struggled because of students not doing signals and not listening as they should--it really only takes one student to mess up a whole class; however, in here (the RR) usually you only deal with students one-on-one or at the most two-on-one, so classroom management is not really an issue.

Tomorrow it's off to the Nest.