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Altruism over Achievement

10/26/2020

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A post on my local Nextdoor site grabbed my attention  in a Twilight Zone kind of way. It was a few days before Halloween and a woman was conflicted whether she should answer the door to trick-or-treaters because last year, her first year in town, she had a terrible experience when kids bullied her on her own front porch as she handed them candy. The woman explained that she was born with facial abnormalities and has had several corrective surgeries during her life. She had grown used to the looks and stares children often give, but the brazenness she experienced from these children had left her “still shaken.”

When she opened the door to the trick-or-treaters– two small children and a teenager—without pause one of the younger ones fired off a chain of, “Why do you look like that?”

“Why are you smiling?” the teenager repeatedly barraged her with as well.

 











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The School of Life

10/22/2020

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My 14-year-old daughter may have started high school in August, but she has barely seen, in person, what high school is like. (Hybrid, in-person classes recently started in our high school district.)

Earlier this month she and I were watching a video that a former high school classmate of mine had posted to our Facebook reunion page. It was a 40-minute long, wobbly shot, funny reminder of a typical day at my high school 30 years ago. It showed ratted bangs and mullets, kids cramming hallways and personal space in a decades-before-COVID world. Those were the things I noticed, but my daughter saw it differently.

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