Such beautiful views, and PERFECT hiking weather! Outventures 2.0 Day 1 is a success! On to the Gorge tomorrow! 🌤🌿🌲🌳🐾 #MHSBEyond@WarriorsBEyond@Mariemont_HS
“The extent of our willingness to change children, coupled with the extent of our unwillingness to change schools, must awaken our collective moral conscience toward a new imagination and approach.” #MariemontEdChat#Troublemakers
“No amount of time-outs ready him to be more quiet. Pretend not to hear him, and he speaks louder. Shut him out and he returns with renewed chutzpah.” #MariemontEdChat#Troublemakers
“Ironically, his harsh approach stems from how desperately he wishes to love and be loved by his peers. His harshness is a misguided search for kindness, his disruptions a misguided attempt at connection.”
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“But he is learning to balance the needs of others against the urgency of his own. This, too, is an important part of learning school—learning not just what will get him in trouble with teachers, but also what will get him in trouble with his peers.” #MariemontEdChat
“The teachers’ efforts to make her more acceptable in fact rendered her more and more different—a problematic and troublesome other.” #Troublemakers#MariemontEdChat
Favorite quote: “What is good here? This search for goodness was particularly helpful in providing the empathetic approach necessary to lovingly understand children so often understood as ‘bad.’”
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