In a seeming act of miraculous universal wisdom, a very talented student I had way back in 2000 has come to my rescue with his talents and his writing.
I had this young man during my first year of teaching Drop Our Prevention. He was one of the inspirations for my book, Voices in the Hall. We have kept in touch through the years, something I am proud and honored to admit!
Like so many students who I have loved, and the reason for my book to honor them, they seem to love me right back just as genuinely as I ever loved them when they were my 8th graders. Grown today, they holler back at their teacher, and from time to time, magic occurs.
Many years after teaching this talented writer, whose journals I still remember, and possibly possess somewhere in my extensive teacher files of "kids who inspired me to be a better teacher and agent to my charges" --he writes me a SONG! SOON TO BE RELEASED!
Supporting my vision, my dream, my hopes of sharing with the world what he and so many like him taught me, he has put his musical genius to work and composed a song for my little book called, "F YOU!" F ailing YOU, Amazon .
This is our second song for this book. The first, like so many of my projects, got lost in a shuffle to find perfection and never surfaced. But now, accepting all my imperfections, embracing them, in fact, as is my blog name "UNEDITED"-- freeing myself from the chains of perfection in writing and producing content-- as I have so aptly freed my students--he and I are ready to forge forward and write to the world about the problem in education of FAILING our KIDZ!
My book is about the ZERO. No kid is a ZERO and I have decided that I have no right to determine who a "failure" is!
Let's find the talents in each other and celebrate them. I'd like the world where F exists to be a thing of the past.
Thank You, Angel Sosa for your talents and for still caring about the work that we began in the year 2000.
Teacha4lyf!
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