[NIFL-WOMENLIT:1662] Re: Purpose

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Daphne,

Back to your 17 year olds.  For all I know they have relatives who were 
pregnant at 17 and "made it." I expect not, but an explroation of the choices 
other family members made might be useful.  I certainly think that sharing a 
value of financial independence is healthy!  After all, what are the other 
options?  I wish I could be a fly on the wall in your class!

One of the teachers in the middle school where I worked with the principal 
was a human dynamo who behaved outrageously--or at least not by the book.  
Tall, thin, spike heels, from Texas (the school was in Boston), wore a red 
wig, she would harangue her students about how they wasted the money that 
taxpayers were giving them for their education!  Sounds very un PC doesn't 
it?  It worked, her students began to think, somehow her screeching got 
through to them, she seldom stopped talking, and they produced good work.   
She would call their parents and talk to them, she always had a line of 
parents on Parents' Night who wanted to talk with her about their children's 
performance.  Very effective teacher.  So she found her way, and it was 
absolutely her way.

Andrea 



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