Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Lost My Words
Simone Ryals
On Friday, everything started out normally. I was reading a book to the children in the morning. That's when I started losing the words. I don't know how else to describe it. They thought it was funny at first. Sometimes we all read words incorrectly. This was different.
I'd see the word "Sometimes" in the last sentence, and read, "Eventually." I knew it was a mistake, but couldn't figure it out. I knew it was the word "sometimes," but my brain fought it.
I whipped the children next door to computer lab, thinking I could rest my brain. I must have been reading for too long, must be tired. The children were starting to become concerned,
and so was I. I had never so much as heard of anything like this.
A child asked for assistance with his computer, only he no longer had a name. I opened my own computer to the attendance page, and all my students' names had been replaced with the names of strangers. Some still had the correct first name, but not the last, or vice versa.
http://simoneryals.blogspot.com/2014/03/lost-my-words.htmlIt is deeply cruel to put teachers under that kind of stress for things they cannot control and for things that are, at best, tangential to their duties - not that they should be put under any kind of stress.
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