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Thank you for this. As a hs teacher for nearly 30 years I have come to believe that the greatest gifts I can give my students are my appreciation for who they are & what they bring into our space along with support in navigating failures or setbacks. Everybody needs to find their own “Sí se puede” (It can be done) but none of us find it by ourselves.

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So life is not just about your gpa?

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Pretty radical, right? It’s funny and sad how we put more value on numbers defining us than they merit.

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"I am more and more wondering how and when America turned into a nation so deeply steeped in fear..."

Policy choices. In a nutshell, 'duck and cover didn't work so they had to invent school shootings'.

Our lords have been using genuinely world-ending threats to cow the populace since the invention of the H bomb.

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