Stuck in the Closet
Posted on July 1, 2008
Filed under Summer School Sagas
Sometimes we wonder where our parents went wrong. However, this question comes to mind deep into adulthood, rather than during the times when you are literally locked in a closet.
This closet is not your ordinary clothes closet littered with hangers, shoes, scarves and belts. No this closet is parked, more like bolted, on the back wall of the summer school classroom B107. What typically is filled with teaching supplies and a teachers’ personal affects was filled numerous times today with 6th and 7th graders. Even though I was not in the room to see, I am confident no summer school customer who is avoiding going to high school would put himself in the closet, much less allow some other semester science flunkee shove his own being in.
Where the parents lost control:
*when a large hormone rolled out of bed one morning instead of their loving son
*when they stopped checking his assignment notebook for homework
*when they decided to cut the umbilical cord
*when they chose the bowling league instead of family game night
*when they said, Son, you are growing into a young man soon (insert head-swelling teenager here)
Having only one child who says a mere 40 words, I may not be at liberty to make such claims about where the parents went wrong. However, I believe that in my four years of knowing students who range in various degrees of success, I can make this call. That experience alone, as my colleagues would nod furiously in agreement, is the reason I make this judgment from my roll-ie chair.
Young teens are expected to be shallow, weak, followers and a plethora of other insulting adjectives. Young teens are also expected to be setting the stage for who they want to be in life. Are you telling me that guy-who-got-shoved-in-the-closet is slated to be guy who sleeps in the closet because his roommate doesn’t want him around when he comes home wasted? On the other hand one could argue that closet-kid was allowing the closet routine for entertainment purposes. Then guy-who-got-shoved-in-the-closet will be the guy who scales a two story building in his underwear for a mere $5.
Either way guy-who-got-shoved-in-the-closet is doomed.
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