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