No Motivation

Last week, our 352 class was at New Castle High School for field experience. I got there a little earlier before 2nd period started, so I was standing around with classmates. One of them asked a 7th grade girl " what do you wanna be when you grow up"? The student replied " I want to be a bum". I was so confused at her answer, and thought to myself, why would anyone want to be that. As a future physical educator, that really made me think about the importance of motivating young children to develop positive minds and healthy futures.