THE APPLAUSE

So this kid just added me on Facebook Monday. This in itself is not news-- probably 50 percent of my friends on Facebook and Myspace are high school and junior high students that I have either substituted for or been a youth leader for in some organized church group.

[By the way, I have a strict policy that I do NOT ask students to be my friends on these social network sites. I accept requests from them to be friends, but I do not initiate such requests. I will only ask a student to be my friend on Facebook/Myspace if I have a previous relationship with them, like I tutored them for three years and I am a family friend, and they named their cat after me..]

But on Tuesday when I stood in front of the psychology class at Dos Pueblos High School with the aforementioned student, I was greeted with applause by the student and another student. Haha, they clapped for me! I should get a raise for this kind of feedback.