Sticky notes offer messages of hope after student scrawls cry for help on bathroom wall

[demmiblue]

When teacher Ashley Ferraro was in the girls' bathroom at her Colorado high school, she noticed a message of despair scribbled on the wall.

"Is life worth all the BS?" it said.

Her first instinct was to erase it, the English teacher at Golden High School told MNN.

"My first reaction was ah, graffiti, we have to clean it and scrub it off and we don’t want other kids to see it because what if they see it and think the same thing?" she said. "But if we cover it up and clean it, are we ignoring the question and by that, are we covering up the person and the pain they are in?"

Instead, Ferraro talked to her students and said if someone is asking a question, it deserves a response. She gave them a stack of sticky notes and permanent markers and said they could participate if they wanted to.

https://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/stories/sticky-notes-offer-messages-hope-after-student-scrawls-cry-help-bathroom-wall

[chia]

1. "But if we cover it up and clean it, are we ignoring the question...

... and by that, are we covering up the person and the pain they are in?"

Powerful teaching moment. Beautiful.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Perhaps there is yet hope...

[crickets]

3. Teachers like this can make a huge difference in the lives of their students.

Yours is not an easy job, and not all of the answers yours students search for can be found in textbooks. Thank you to teachers everywhere who take on this task.

[SayItLoud]

4. Teachers are a gift. Treasure them. And, for our children, country, the world....

PAY THEM A DECENT WAGE!

[marble falls]

5. Any job worth having someone else do is worth at the very least a living wage.

[TygrBright]

6. Teachers should make more than hedge fund executives. n/t

[backtoblue]

7. Kick and Rec

[MagickMuffin]

8. Send that message to the Impeachment Managers

Not that it would have a profound impact on the republicon senate.