This is where you'll find me: There's a fine fine line...

What a crazy day I had today! First though exciting news....I asked my supervisor at work if I could work more with the families that are residing at the shelter as well as the people in the permanent housing and she said yes. So I got to go to the Homes for Families meeting today, which was interesting because we got to listen to a woman speak about the government in Massachusetts not cutting government programs that help the homeless. There was a woman there who is currently homeless and living in a shelter and she said that she thinks everyone should be homeless at some point. Really? I would never wish that on someone. I mean I know what she was trying to say, that we should be more aware of what homeless people go through on a daily basis, but to say that we should all go through the experience is a little far. There's a fine line between going through it and educating yourself about it. I think we should do more research about homelessness and how to eliminate it. Government programs need to do more than just provide questionable living situations and then turn a blind eye. But, to actually say that we need to experience homelessness is not quite right.

On another note, there is a new family at the shelter and some extenuating circumstances and the mother was not living at the shelter for a few days. The kids went to school and somehow told the school that they didn't know where their mother was and where there were living. So naturally the school wanted to know what was going on. They called the shelter, we assured them that everything was fine and that the kids were being cared for, but the school went beyond and asked who the legal guardian was. They don't need to know that. Sometimes I think that people are just nosy and want to know every one's business. It's not important who the guardian is, they just need to know that they kids are actually living somewhere. Don't keep prying and prying for information. This is just like teachers diagnosing kids with ADD and ADHD. I understand referring someone to evaluate the child, but to tell the parent that their child needs to go on medication. You are a teacher, or administrator, not a doctor. Don't tell a parent their child needs to go on medication when you are not a person to can legally diagnose children. Please stick to your fields of expertise.