"As I look around, all I see are choices; I do not see a single reject." Pierre Dulaine
This correlates to my teaching philosophy in that every student begins my class with a clean slate. It is really interesting to see this played out with Dulaine's character on his students. It really makes that idea to me even more cemented into that philosophy.
In the juvenile justice system, and even in regular schools as well as alternative schools, students need this. Especially, I believe, students with EBD, because they are a bunch of students who are tough to handle emotionally and sometimes physically. But, I think that all they need in order to begin developing relationships with others is to be told that they are not their behavior. They are not what they have done in the past. That it is okay to not know who they are, because not many students at that age do know who they are.
I hope that one day I will be able to say these things to students who have begun to believe what the school system has told them, that they are their behavior.
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