Great writing but also sounds like a great life. As a retired special education teacher then administrator I was always working outside the box in one way or another. I loved, still do, what I did with alternative Ed kids, kids who were locked up. I remember once when traveling, being behind a school bus on Native Lands in Arizona as it discharged its kids to walk down a long dirt road to their home. …these kids were being held to the same standards as the very privileged students I taught in MA…with far fewer resources. The inequity that exists is mind blowing….I’m not sure of the solution but we have to keep trying. Thanks.
Great writing but also sounds like a great life. As a retired special education teacher then administrator I was always working outside the box in one way or another. I loved, still do, what I did with alternative Ed kids, kids who were locked up. I remember once when traveling, being behind a school bus on Native Lands in Arizona as it discharged its kids to walk down a long dirt road to their home. …these kids were being held to the same standards as the very privileged students I taught in MA…with far fewer resources. The inequity that exists is mind blowing….I’m not sure of the solution but we have to keep trying. Thanks.
Glad you liked it. As my long-time teacher friend used to say, “ there are no bad kids, just bad situations.”
Thank you for this relevant and somewhat poignant post (applicable perhaps at any age, yes) .
"They need mirrors in which they see themselves, and windows through which they see the world.”
Thank you for reading. I appreciate the comment.