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Originally Posted by alteredcourse
Wow ! Congrats on the interview going well. No matter what, your attitude is admirable.
How do you suppose these other teachers come to be? How do they escape the clutches of cynicism that bear down on most, standing by the belief that its the world that has failed the kids, rather than that the kids dont even have the chance?
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because its as Peter Tosh sang to us,
"You can't blame the youth, you can't fool the youth, no you can't blame the youth, when they don't learn and you can't fool them.. cuz you teach the youth about Christopher Colombus, and you said he was a very great man.. you teach the youth about the Pirate Morgan, and you said he was a very great man.. but you can't blame the youth, no you can't fool them.."
There are many schools who know that the system has failed these kids, these kids who are good people living in bad circumstances, and all they need is a little love and attention with a drive and focus.
The mainstream system would rather see these kinds of kids back in jail then deal with the hard work it takes to rehabilitate them, but there are bright souls like these and myself who see no other work worth doing.
If somebody doesn't work with these kids who will? Who is better to work with them than people who can relate? Just like Hat and Beard relates to his kids because of his "maturity" so to can people like me relate to these kids because we come from the same place, and at the least, people like me serve as an example to these kids that you
can come up from nothing.