Doritos for Ducks

Today our school took a field trip to the Bronx Zoo. Making sure that 50 special needs preschoolers made it through the zoo without getting lost or hurt or jumping into the duck pond was some feat. We had one-to-one supervision for all of the kids and I was in charge of a girl named Heavyn. She was incredibly cute but also close to impossible to manage. She took off at every chance she got and could not be prevented from sharing her Doritos with every animal we saw. She had a tantrum at the end of the trip because she couldn’t get her face painted and terribly wanted a “make over.” The experience reminded me how hard (though fun) it is to work with kids! To all the teachers that do this every day, your work is really amazing.