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martinah
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It sounds like you worked really hard. As for the results, all I can say is that, like most teachers, you lacked the support of their primary instructors (i.e. their parents); without the parental support, there is actually very little a teacher can teach a child in a one hour class. You tried your best, and who knows maybe a couple of them will revisit the whole issue later in life because one day they will remember being in your class and suddenly it will make sense to them. In the meantime, be assured that you worked well and that is all anyone, including you, can reasonably ask of you.I should, and I do, know better:
I’ve just finished this semester teaching religion to grade 11s (in a Catholic Highschool).
I am happy about a couple of things - I read an entire Gospel to the kids passage by passage throughout the semester, and had the kids write a reflection on it each day.
I believe that I was able to reach some kids throughout the semester, and in particular the more marginal kids.
We prayed at the beginning of each class, and the kids learned both the Benedictus and the Magnificat.
Yet, in a final reflection on the course only one or two expressed any kind of belief in Christ as the son of God.
None felt they had a relationship with Him.
Many felt/believed that the teachings of the Church are on par with any other “opinion” out there,
I feel a bit gutted right now, and like I have failed…
(Totally self absorbed of me I know, and very unrealistic - yet that’s how I feel).
Take care and God bless,
Martina