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6/9/04 9:58 AM |
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Patty Dump
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I totally agree with you.
I see students make this transition--it takes usually about two years.
I also see similar students who will never make the transition because they simply do not desire to make it.
My greatest successes are the first group==my greatest failures are the second.
But sometimes, like just a couple of weeks ago, one of the students who had not made the transition, three years ago, dropped out and went to a big city. I lost track of him when he dropped out of school there.
He showed up in my classroom just before graduation this year and said, "Hey, remember me?"
It was a ludicrous question. I always remember the ones who have been my students.
"I have gotten my GED and am enrolling in a community college today. I just came by to let you and Mr. G know that I didn't give up because I knew both of you believed in me. I couldn't let you down."
I gave him a genuine hug to acknowledge his success.
Perhaps, then, we don't know what affect we really have on students until years later.
Were we successful?
How do we measure this type of success?
Patty
Posted as a reply to:
Defining Success by Deborah McGriff 
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