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Describe a recent time when you’ve been discouraged with a student’s progress. Have you witnessed a change in the student’s life, or are you still waiting for that change to occur?
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Recently, a student was found cheating on an assignment. His excuse was that he felt desperate when he realized he didn’t have time to finish on his own. He shows surface repentance, yet still sees his dishonesty was justified by circumstances.
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Some of my seniors are in study hall. They are close to me, so I can hear some of the things they say, so many times I have call them on that, go through it and they say they get “it”.
Yet they keep saying the same stuff I called them for in the first place.It is so disappointing to feel like just as soon as it gets in, it gets out of them.
More so when they profess to love Jesus, yet their actions show a lack of the Holy Spirit. -
Changes can be both good exciting and disappointing. It’s not the change, but how you react to the change.
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I have a student who used to be very respectful in the way she talked about her parents but over the first month of this year she has started openly mocking her parents’ rules and the things they tell her. We have been able to have some good conversations where she recognizes that she is not choosing what is good for her, but her heart is still very rebellious. I am praying for her and continuing to talk to her. The other day I had the opportunity to share a time recently when I felt similarly about authority and how I had to ask God to change my heart.
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There was a student who was just struggling a lot academically, and behaviorally challenging. He would oppose every authoritative figure, quick on the mouth, and somehow always involved himself and stir others in mischievous acts. Despite of the many opportunities given, people who were trying to reach out to him in many different approaches nothing seemed to work. One day, he told me about the physical and verbal abuse he had to face at home from his dad who is a notable Christian leader and it helped me to understand why he seemed to be angry at everyone. Over time however, the Head of School finally took him under his wings and slowly thing began to change.
