For those of you "mature" adults, the answer might be "Of course not!"; but how about if you are in grade 5 or 6?
Last week we had parent/teacher interviews, and we came away with the following impressions:
*Our girls are doing very well academically, in fact they know more than most of the other students.
*Our girls are very young for their grade (probably the youngest), and sometimes it shows.
*Our girls are not afraid to raise their hand if they know the answer to a question, and they are willing to "sing out" the national anthem when the rest of the class might just be mumbling.
*The fact that they are not "TV-ed" (we don't have a TV in our house - at least not one that we can watch TV programs on) is very obvious.
So what do we do with this information? Some of it we can't do much with (like their age), some of it we are happy about but didn't necessarily have a choice about (TV is not practical on solar power in Cameroon! But it IS our choice not to have it here), and some of it we have worked quite hard on (giving them a good education and trying to teach them to participate as much as they can). But the fact remains that they stick out a bit from the rest of the class. Is this bad?
You know, it kind of reminds me of myself. Funny thing... I was an MK. And I felt like I really stuck out when we came back to Canada. And it was really hard at times, and yet I really didn't want to be just like everybody else. After all, this world isn't our real home, you know; we're just strangers passing through. When we get to heaven, we'll all fit in, and we'll all be ok with that!
1 comment:
I don't think it is bad to "stand out". We are "in this world, but not of it" and we are "lights on a hill". I know it is hard on the kids, but they will, like you, some day be glad of their upbringing. Hang in there!
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