Robert and Michelle (998 words)

By: PABLO DIABLO

Copyright 2019

If you had met Robert and Michelle during the 2017-2018 school year, you would have sworn that these two were longtime lovers. Yet you would have been wrong.

Robert and Michelle both taught at Tampa Bay Technical High School. Robert taught computers and internet security. Michelle, on the other hand, taught children how to write a resume and properly apply for employment. The students that they taught were students that had become parents at 14,15,16 and such. The court system had emancipated them so they would have the same rights being parents to their children and not being bossed around by parents that couldn’t raise these kids.

Robert and Michelle’s classrooms were right next to each other. Occasionally, the principal would visit each of their classrooms to uplift her spirits about how today’s children can still be taught the things that they need to be taught and still be outstanding parents to their own children.

When it rolled around to lunchtime, Robert sat his class at the very next tables to Michelle’s class. Both teachers encourage making friends in the other’s class. Some parents tried to interfere and accuse the teachers of forcing the kids to have adult-type relationships. Robert and Michelle politely explained that these children have already made adult choices, now it was time to teach them how to handle the choices that they made.

It wasn’t until Christmas vacation, that Robert found himself in a quite difficult situation of his own.