For the last several years I have taught the ten and eleven year
old boys. That would be the boys who were either ten or eleven and January 1st
of that year. I also have the eleven year old boys in scouts.
With all the sexual abuse that has been in the new the
church has had a two deep leadership policy in the scouting program. That means
that you can never have one leader together with one boy. The church expanded this policy to all their
youth classes. That means all primary classes, whether they are taught by women
or not, must have two teachers in the classroom.
About a month ago Todd Groesbeck and I were in our primary
class and in comes Bruce Brittain. He had just been called to the eleven year
old primary class. That confused me because it really seemed to be overkill to
have three men teaching two boys. Well somehow I’d missed the memo. When we got
into sharing time we learned that Lisa and I were now both teaching her class.
Take about a difference in class dynamics. We regularly have five very sweet
girls and one calm, polite and thoughtful boy. Talk about a dream class. I love
those kids.
With Lisa out of town for a month and a half I now have one
of the dads sit in with me. What a group of intelligent and respectful kids. Every
one of them is very bright and all of them participate. The kids in the class
are:
Camille
Gray
Clara
Morin
Sean
Johnston
Kate
Ryan
Jack
Knaphus
Addy
Proctor
I love teaching these kids.
