Mercies of Omission

“Mercies of Omission”
Oil on Canvas
24 x 36 in.
2007
The harsh truth about teaching at my school is this: I am inadequate to my students’ needs, and the school itself is inadequate to the students’ needs. They deserve better than a place where there is lead in the drinking water that I have to forbid them to drink in a 100 degree classroom., and better than a first year teacher who barely knows what she is doing.