I was told early on in my teaching career that "your agriculture students will stay in the community." I took that statement with a grain of salt and didn't think much of it. However, almost a decade later I see my former students everywhere.
Our family attended the town car show a couple of months ago, and the local police were there. I recognized one of the officers as a former student. This encounter has been in the back of my mind, and it seemed an appropriate time to do something for our local police department.
We had been wanting to do something for awhile, so a couple of weeks ago we started with putting blue ribbons around our trees. Then Saturday we tried to take donuts to the police office. (Yes, again with the donuts.) However, they were out on a call, and the office was locked. So today the boys picked out cupcakes to deliver to them. But again, the office was locked, so we walked over to the city clerks office, which adjoins the police office, and asked after the officers. They were happy to help, and took our names down with the cupcakes. They also gave the boys suckers and police badge stickers.
Even if we didn't make the cupcakes or deliver them to a police officers, the boys were excited about the experience. They couldn't wait to tell their dad all about it, and I had to address them with an officer before their names. My 3-year old went so far as to say that's what he wanted to do. At least until nap time when the badges peeled off in their blankets.
Some people often wonder why my blog is titled Ag Teacher to Ag Mom, and really it's because my role as a teacher feels very similar to my role as a mom. As a teacher. I rarely said no when asked to do community service projects. Even when my students grumbled about it and I had to convince and bribe them into it, they were better for it. Now one of those students is a public servant, and I'm doing service projects with my own kids. We have come full circle, and the cycle repeats itself. 
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