Revised Journal Article

I treat my room and the belongings in that room with respect and believe that my students will do the same. However, today I was disappointed. My student Kay left his blue and white water bottle in my room. I meant to put Kays water bottle on my desk but with the transition from one class to the next I forget. 20 minutes or so later I remembered Kay’s water bottle. I turned around to move it to my desk, picked it up and quickly noticed it had been broken. Looking up I then notice that the other half of the water bottle is in Carlos’s hands.

I addressed Carlos and ask him why he broke it, he said. “I don’t know miss”. I said Carlos, “would you want to come back to get your water bottle and find it broken?”. Carlos said, “No”. I asked him again why he did it and he said he didn’t know and didn’t consider what he was actually doing. Along with Carlos breaking an object that isn’t his, my students are constantly breaking keys off the chromebooks. In times like these, I ask myself whether or not my students consider how their actions will affect others? I wonder how developed their empathy is? Recently, I have become more worried about my students and their ability to consider others before they act.