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Lady Emsworth's avatar

Really do appreciate what you're doing, even if sometimes it must feel like you're shouting into the wilderness. . .

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Steven Dundas's avatar

Thank you. Sometimes it feels that way but the message is getting out.

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Christina Johnson's avatar

Many, many thanks for your efforts. I hope that encouraging your students information growth will be successful in bringing back dignity, humanity, compassion and understanding. The monsters facing them now are real.

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Steven Dundas's avatar

Thank you. I will continue to resist and teach and take advantage of my position to be smart about how I do it.

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Babette Albin's avatar

Teaching high school students is a challenge, indeed. Even before the computer age we were contending with raging hormones. As a senior auditor in college, l feel sorry for professors who have to contend with the shopping network on iPhones.

The most telling encounter, even more than violence in the 1980’s was a high school student who seriously informed me that “Hitler didn’t finish the job.”

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Steven Dundas's avatar

Babette,

I experienced that with a white American Christian student two years ago. I was stunned because his parents were strong supporters of Israel. However, this year my students, including my Bosnian Muslim, my Turks, and my Chinese, Japanese and Koreans get it. They add a lot, especially the Bosnian Muslim who parents witnessed and fought against Serbian genocide adds to our class understanding.

Thank you as always for your insights.

All the best and stay safe,

Steve

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Babette Albin's avatar

I fled the classroom and cried in the bathroom, shaken by this incident. Another teacher straightened me out by telling me to return to the classroom. “Don’t let them win!”

That has stayed with me as well.

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Jill Dennison's avatar

"Thus my students learn about Black and Women’s history, civil rights, crimes committed by the United States, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and the Holocaust ..." Two thumbs up to you and your school, Padre!!! THIS is what education should be! If only our public schools thought along the same lines! You're a good man, Steve, and I appreciate all that you have done, are doing, and will do in the future! Thank you!!!

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