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Hi guys,

What do you do when everyone is telling you a kid is useless? Do you carry on trying to help irrelevant of what they have done or do you cut your loses?

I've been worrying about this for a while now I just don't want to look back and say what if I could have helped!
hst Have not had someone identify a kid as "useless", but have had students for whom the future seems grim and for whom I can easily see a path to jail or something else undesirable.

I find it is those students who need us the most, so I smile, am polite and ask them to make choices that will help them learn something to "keep ...See More
Dec 21, 2016


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