I’d also like to just mention that the students who presented on mental health have started a club at their school for students to talk about their mental health issues with other students. I don’t even teach at their school, and I love these kids.
They even had t shirts on sale for $5, so I got one for myself, one of my fellow ELA teachers who came to see it all, and because I only had $20 bills, donated the other $10 to the charity that the students wanted to raise money for.
Then at the end, my students evidently went and bought me a pink shirt that the English department at Buff State sells that says, “English Teachers Change the World” on it. That’s their slogan. It’s a little cheesy, and my student only bought it for me because I like to echo the sentiment of wearing pink on Wednesday’s like in Mean Girls.
But with this being the second year i’ve taken students to this event...yeah, I do think English teachers just might change the world.