To: bentway who wrote (246006 ) 3/1/2014 1:46:14 PM From: epicure Read Replies (1) | Respond to There are children who are dying to flourish. They are just waiting for an adult to take an interest in them, and to see potential in them, and then they take off like rockets. Those children are mostly Hispanic- in my district. They have loving but uneducated parents, and they have been well cared for, but they have no family knowledge or familiarity with the power of education. I can make a seismic shift in those children's lives- and I can do it fast (within a few years). Then there are the children who are the product of stupid parents, and they've been badly treated for 15 years before they get to me, and they've had no enrichment and no encouragement. Frequently those children are angry- at their parents, at society, at me- and they are also angry at their peers- and as some of their peers begin to succeed, they get angrier, because they do not wish to put forth the effort to succeed, and they don't want to see anyone else do that either. Those children are disrupters. They need special help- and even then, I'm not sure we can make much out of them.
