Thursday, March 4, 2010

Do Your Best And Leave The Rest


misfits
rejects
hopeless ones
 bearing pain, bruises deep
wounds of the past
feeling inadequate 
on common ground
we meet

I have been teaching high-school dropouts for about six weeks. Issues abound among these I spend one-sixth of each day with. Baggage plenty they bring in the door. Attitudes and mistrust, too. Self-esteem nonexistent. How is it to be done?

guide
encourage
 teach compassionately
  discipline respectfully 
inspire
 motivate
 demonstrate lovingly
and leave it

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