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A student blows up at a teacher, drops the F-bomb. The usual approach at Lincoln – and, safe to say, at most high schools in this country – is automatic suspension. Instead, Sporleder sits the kid down and says quietly: “Wow. Are you OK? This doesn’t sound like you. What’s going on?”
He gets even more specific: “You really looked stressed. On a scale of 1-10, where are you with your anger?” The kid was ready. Ready, man! For an anger blast to his face….”How could you do that?” “What’s wrong with you?”…and for the big boot out of school. But he was NOT ready for kindness.
The armor-plated defenses melt like ice under a blowtorch and the words pour out: “My dad’s an alcoholic. He’s promised me things my whole life and never keeps those promises.” The waterfall of words that go deep into his home life, which is no piece of breeze, end with this sentence: “I shouldn’t have blown up at the teacher.” Whoa.
”Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tries new approach to school discipline — suspensions drop 85% (via mchotdog)
what a radical idea yo
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Bam. Kids “misbehave” for actual, real, valid reasons. And have feelings.
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this is awesome. awesome.
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today, i am graduating. mazel tov to the class of 2012.
to two of the most extraordinary people i could ever ask for - i hope you both know how much i love you. this is only the beginning.
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word of the day: patience
today i am choosing to be excited about everything because i have so much to be excited about.
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if my heart wasn’t such a jungle, maybe you wouldn’t feel so all alone. if your heart wasn’t such an ocean, i wouldn’t sink like a stone.
“There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.”
Shauna Niequist
how i feel about graduation
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