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[sazzy]

When Kyle Schwartz started teaching third grade at Doull Elementary School in Denver, she wanted to get to know her students better. She asked them to finish the sentence “I wish my teacher knew.”

The responses were eye-opening for Ms. Schwartz. Some children were struggling with poverty (“I wish my teacher knew I don’t have pencils at home to do my homework” an absent parent (“I wish my teacher knew that sometimes my reading log is not signed because my mom isn’t around a lot” and a parent taken away (“I wish my teacher knew how much I miss my dad because he got deported to Mexico when I was 3 years old and I haven’t seen him in six years&#8221.

More at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/w...-teachers-knew.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

 

[Kyzer]

damn

 

[strafer]

man

 

[kingslunk]

Thought this was going to be bunch of kids being smartasses to their teachers.

Nope. Filled with feels in here.

 

[TheOddOne]

Man, that shelter one

 

[Trojita]

Oh man now I feel bad.

 

[yencid]

Working with kids myself, its something i constantly have to check myself about and remember that a lot of these kids have a lot of baggage they dont like to talk about.

 

[Trojita]

Went to her website where she is selling the book.

Our school community is strong, but we face challenges—challenges that are all too familiar to many schools in America. During the 2013–14 school year, 90 percent of our students lived in poverty. More than half of our students speak a language other than English at home. In my own classroom during the 2015–16 school year, about one-third of my students qualify to receive special education services. There are many schools, nationwide, with similar statistics.

The fuck.