What do you do with a young girl who knows she can make more money standing on a street corner than sitting behind a desk?
How do you teach a child to "honor their father and mother" when their parents are the ones telling them they are worthless?
How do you tell someone to stay in school when their family tries to convince them daily to quit so they can make money?
What do you do with a kid who's entire life has been inundated with fight? How can you teach peace when the people who are supposed to love them the most are the ones hurting them?
What do you do with kids who care more about the touch-down dance than the touch down?
How do you show enough love to the child who has eleven brothers and sisters and who's parents work four jobs to provide for them?
What do you do with a boy who is sixteen and still in seventh grade?
What do you do with kids who spend hours perfecting Michael Jackson's dance moves instead of finishing their school work?
What do you say to a young boy who doesn't worry about his school work because he knows he can always go sell drugs for a living?
How do you show kids what is right when all they see in their lives is wrong?
4 comments:
All you can do is keep drumming it into their heads that there is a better way to live and that the only way out is through education. I know that's easy for me to say sitting here in my white bread world, but the message is still valid. Hang in there - you can make a difference in their lives!
Be the example, be the port in their storm, be the one they can trust and teach them better than they have been given.
p.s. - also, just know you won't save them all, but you will save at least one, and that is all the difference in their world and yours...
what can you do with the 17 year old in 8th grade....send them to mistah shues room...that is all i work with...
starting to become my specialty!
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