So, summer school ended with great success. I have talent for this. I was able to connect and support disinfranchised students. We had a 91% pass rate for the students. I understand that this is un precedented. We also did not have a fight. My campus supervisor, Artis, said that this was the first time in his experience that there was not a fight in summer school. He said that he felt it was because I had connected with the students. For example, he said that he talked with this big football players who said that I made them apologize to their teachers. And for gosh sakes, they did and then they were able to stay and excel.
I can see that we can help these students if we develop more advocacy for them. You cannot take students who have already failed, put them in an overcrowded classroom with one teacher for 2.5 hours or 5 hours if they are making up a full year, and expect them to behave, be focused and do their work. There is so much more that needs to happen for them.
Carla sent me a link to what is going on in Emeryville schools and now proposed for Oakland schools. I will post it.
Anyhow, now at the Inn at Schoolhouse Creek in Mendo with Peter for vacation. Lovely place; relaxing with excellent amentities. Quiet cove, with ocean smells. A vacation can help one reflect, take stock of their life, go on pause and regenerate energy to advance. One must not succumb to negative thinking, but use this time to refuel for a new advance. Anyhow, that is how a Buddhist would look at time off, however brief.
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