I applaud you Judy. I think that we adults would be amazed at the difference
we can make by not only talking to but really listen to the students, the
youths in this day and age. I firmly believe that many times kids act out
because they are made to feel invisible, as though their thoughts and
feelings don't matter. Negative attention is better than no attention at all.
I am curious, when you (teachers) look at your classrooms full of squirming,
noisy bodies, do you see them as one body (or in some cases the enemy) or as
individuals? Yes, there should be boundaries, because you can't take on the
weight of the world and you have to have a life. But wouldn't it be cool to
leave behind a legacy as the teacher a student can trust, a teacher that a
student could say "She/he really saw me, really listened to me."
