Now it’s the s3 students who are organizing - Caleb Myhre’s class. I walked into his classroom today and saw his pale face gazing deeply at me from the sea of black faces around him and just smiled. Senior 3’s seem to be following the lead of a student new at school this year; they are claiming to be some sort of organized militia or rebel group and are threatening to burn the school and hurt students who don’t cooperate. They are senior 3 students - juniors in high school - and we know that they want attention and to be important. But when I encountered a girl crying in the quad today and heard her story of having her life threatened; it felt serious.

David and the discipline committee are in meetings right now to find a course of action; as always it is one person’s word against another’s and the details are hard to sort out. Pray for wisdom and safety.

As I was walking back from this conversation I passed another classroom where I heard a teacher stating: “Fact. Women’s emancipation is a waste of time.” - not an encouraging message. I spent the next twenty minutes eavesdropping (yes, I do stoop so low when the cause is good) on a conversation on women’s rights in which the girls were bitterly misrepresented. It’s frustrating when this teacher has a history of borderline issues with sexual harassment, and is accused of pressuring girls at the school for physical favors. But once again, difficult to find the real story, difficult to see the real truth. I really appreciate David who seeks to know people as they are and to treat them not as problems but as human beings. Whenever I find a staff member that should ” clearly go!” because of their behavior, David points out their values and why he is not ready to give up on them yet. Hmmm. . . . Seems like Jesus treats ME that way too.