Student Involvement

I mentioned during my 14 week update that I shared the news with my students on Monday.  It has been fun to see how much my students do actually care and are somewhat invested in my growing fetus!  Since I work at an alternative school, my students are not always the best with their attendance, so when I announced on Monday, there was a handful of students who were not there to find out.  On Tuesday and Wednesday, I several (male) students who took it upon themselves to make sure that everyone who has had me at some point this year knew about my pregnancy!

I was shocked to have several students tell me that they couldn't believe that I would keep this from them for 3 months.  When I told them that I needed to wait to make sure my family knew first, many of them replied with, "Aren't we like your family?!"  One student (who has a 2.5 year old) now calls me Preggo, and occasionally asks how I am feeling (I still find it hard to believe that some of my students have been through this already!).  Another student was shocked when I told him, and said, "Wow.  This is, like, really big news!" and one more student told me that "this was the biggest, most unexpected news he had heard all day."  Remember, my classes are the 18-21 crowd (Super Seniors), and I only have 2 girls total across my 6 class periods, so to hear these comments from these at-risk young men has melted my heart a bit.

Now I just have to come up with a fun way to share the sex of the baby in March!