D-5: My future is looking uncertainly bright

Again, I feel that I've had a very blessed day of student teaching, though it's still more observing at this point. I'm getting to know the kids, and they're getting to know me. We had a debate today on whether or not McDonald's et al. are responsible for the rise in obesity today. The nearly unanimous argument was that it was up to the individual and that the food chains are not responsible. To make the debate more lively for the next class, we changed the question to whether it was the parent's or the child's responsibility to make healthy choices, and the split was a little more even, but favored the individual.

I was expecting to have to balance a more progressive, anti-capitalistic attitude toward the "evil" corporation, but instead I found myself saying, "wait a minute, you don't see how happy they were to poison a generation with fat and sugar just to make a buck, that the only reason they're changing is because the market (and legal pressure) is forcing them to?" Never thought I'd speak that sentence and mean it.

My plans for the rest of the day are pretty simple: dinner, spend time with Shannon, fiddle with the speaker system, (a little disappointed with it so far) try to get to bed earlier. I still need to figure out my quiet time and when I'm going to write this paper and curriculum. I'm not too worried yet.