Apparently the 8th grade teacher thought that by crumpling the student’s essay and then tossing it into the trash, he was effectively making the point that the student needed to be “better prepared for high school.” At least this is what he told the student as he made the histrionic gesture, and later the parent when she questioned his methods.
“He is ready, he’s here,” replied the parent.
That the child had suffered a deeply traumatic event earlier in his life was not unknown to the teacher however, unless a teacher (or any professional in a child’s life) has worked to become trauma informed, the dots between the trauma and the impact of elusive futuristic warnings are typically left unconnected.
[For more on this story by Suzy DeYoung, go to https://www.huffingtonpost.com...d923e4b06d8966cf31ac]
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