Navigating Challenges in Education and Foster Care 🌟

Why in the 2020s is this such a big deal? With everything that entails abuse, neglect, homelessness, foster care, gangs, all of those kinds of things. And I came in with a hard-ass attitude. Okay, because I'd been— what? I'd been in a newsroom, right? If you're not on time, if you're not in your seat when the red light goes on, your seat is empty. On live television, right? And so I, I treated them like they were grownups. And I, my kids produced a TV show. And one day they did a horrible show. It was terrible. No one made their deadlines. It was embarrassing. I ended up teaching 20 years at the same school in South Phoenix. And teachers rarely see their students again. Yes, I taught a couple thousand kids, probably. We rarely do. But everyone, some of them hit me up on Facebook. Some of them say nice things, which makes me want to cry. And in the middle of all that, I wasn't able to have any children of my own, which bothered me when I was much younger. And it turns out I ended up being a foster mom. I put my phone number on the board at the end of the year, 'cause I worried about the kids for 10 weeks off. You know, will they eat? What will happen? And one kid called me, and I knew something was wrong, but he wouldn't tell me what it was. What's wrong? And I told her, and she said, "Oh, if it bothers you so much, why don't you call foster care and say he can come and live with you?"