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"To make a difference in the life of a child … I made the commitment to tell my personal story," says educator Lisa Godwin. In this moving talk, she shares her experience of overcoming childhood trauma with the quiet, unwavering support of a teacher and school counselor — and shows how educators can help students and families navigate hardships by sharing their own stories.
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Bold of you to assumed they are gonna help us.
Teachers need to be reevaluated by modern society. They are no longer the “gatekeepers of knowledge”, in fact the average person has access to more information now than any Harvard professor did 50 years ago. To be blunt, in your current form you are about as close to redundant aspects of our society as it can get, even broaching on harmful and limiting. The simple fact that teachers the world over only seem to protest when they want more money and not when their function becomes redundant thanks to changing technology and needs to be adapted makes me have no desire to give any of you any respect.
There are good teachers
@Amber Johnson And yet society is operated on principles of majority and generalization. Without it none of this would function.
Are you really implying that our species as a whole should tolerate the destruction of one of the foundations of every society simply because “a few good people may have to look for another job”?
Now THAT is entitlement and perceived privilege made manifest.
Hah! My teachers wouldn‘t do something like this. They can‘t even teach! They just from internet copied pages and all they say is: Answer ist. And then they ask, why 3/4 pf the class fails in the exam, and why we are so slow in course. All they do ist doing something on their phones or computers, but definitely not for school. They get paid for doong absolutly nothing!! You can find their exams(sadly without solutions) and documents online…
This is so touching, especially the fact that the Teacher’s daughter was there where you told the story. I love this. Teachers make a lot of impacts.
I knew there would be some brainwashing part (it was in her voice and look) and it all begun with ‘the light’.
Eh?
You hit the nail on the head.
Wish she was my kindergarten teacher…
Gonna be real, I wouldn’t trust a single teacher I’ve met to help someone else with their trauma. They seem to be unable to help themselves with their own.
How about teachers just teach?
I got my trauma’ s from teachers.
Cynthia Rose exactly
That’s so cute! Thanks so! I was always alone. And it is a gift. Love you!
Should be parents
I have tears in my eyes and I thank you for this talk Your compassion has made a difference in my life. Ty blessings.
Gj
Teachers in America should be paid way more. At least $60k a year.
I wish she had been my teacher. When I was 7, I was beaten and humiliated every day by my teacher for a whole schoolyear, and I held it secret from everybody because I was ashamed of myself, because I assumed that if she hates me that much, there must be something wrong with me, and it must surely be my fault. I was the only one in class she treated that way. My parents eventually found out because I wasn’t able to hide my injuries to my head, ears and neck anymore, they filed a complaint, and she was eventually fired, though much later, because apparently she went for the quiet and shy children in every class to live out her sadistic tendencies, so the complaints kind of piled up until the school couldn’t ignore them anymore. My trauma still gets triggered in college now, almost 20 years later, and I get panic attacks in class regularly because I remember how she humiliated me, and my brain tells me that the (completely oblivious and innocent) university teacher is going to humiliate me infront of everybody in the same way. It’s really weird how the brain works.
Yee what an ugly accent. It irritates me.