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We failed Percy countless times by never stopping to connect with him.  He feels ignored and no one pays attention to him.

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We fail students when they become just a number and we lose sight of their faces.  They feel invisible. They feel like a scape goat for the anger that others have pent up for some reason that they don't understand. 

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We fail students when they become just a number and we lose sight of their faces.  They feel invisible. They feel like a scape goat for the anger that others have pent up for some reason that they don't understand. 

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This is troubling and heartbreaking.

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Where did we NOT fail him? We don't 'see' him; we don't hear his point of view; we don't care for him; we don't engage him; we don't protect him.

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Percy lacks even one trusted adult with whom he can confide, trust, and gain support. He moves through his days frustrated but silent. We didn't engage him. We allowed him to pass through, pass by, without us really noticing.

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We've failed to understand his experience and we do not listen.

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We've failed to understand his experience and we do not listen.

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Where did we go wrong? Where did the educational and life experiences for Percy begin to change for the worse, and how can we make it better? If we can drill down into those pivotal times -- when perhaps Percy's interaction with education and/or society began to change -- then maybe we'd have a chance to prevent this from happening to so many other "Percys" in the future.

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Where did we go wrong? Where did the educational and life experiences for Percy begin to change for the worse, and how can we make it better? If we can drill down into those pivotal times -- when perhaps Percy's interaction with education and/or society began to change -- then maybe we'd have a chance to prevent this from happening to so many other "Percys" in the future.

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The failures were the moments where adults interacted with this student.  Instead of creating positive opportunities, we seem to have created a system where the adults views do not believe in each student's ability to excel

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The failures were the moments where adults interacted with this student.  Instead of creating positive opportunities, we seem to have created a system where the adults views do not believe in each student's ability to excel

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If school is just a holding pattern that neither validates our children nor counteracts discrimination, and if it is just going to be about moving students through a bland and standard course of study without letting them experience what excites them, we will never make it better and will only make it worse.

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If school is just a holding pattern that neither validates our children nor counteracts discrimination, and if it is just going to be about moving students through a bland and standard course of study without letting them experience what excites them, we will never make it better and will only make it worse.

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We have failed in communicating and building relationships with students so that they find their purpose.

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We failed to provide him with a trusting adult who knows him and can advocate for him to get what he needs from school. 

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We failed to provide him with a trusting adult who knows him and can advocate for him to get what he needs from school. 

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We failed to create an environment where this student felt comfortable & safe to share.

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We failed Percy because we didn't care enough about him to listen to him nor give him the opportunity to develop positive relationships with adults.

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We failed Percy because we didn't care enough about him to listen to him nor give him the opportunity to develop positive relationships with adults.

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We do not know him, and failed to understand the importance and value of knowing him.

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We do not know him, and failed to understand the importance and value of knowing him.

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We failed this young man because we did not take an interest in him and did nothing to give him any special attention to to help him succeed.

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We failed this young man because we did not take an interest in him and did nothing to give him any special attention to to help him succeed.

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We fail to get to know our students deeply; their assets, their aspirations, their challenges, their wants, and their needs.

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Percy's school failed to make him feel that he belonged there. He had only one relationship, with
the shop teacher, that seemed to validate his humanity in any way

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There is no reason to engage with positivity and curiosity, when you know a negative response is coming

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We ignored him, rather than engaging him

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We ignored him, rather than engaging him

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We failed him right in the opening paragraph - his teacher is "always looking at me that way and I know no matter what I say he aint gonna believe me."

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We failed him right in the opening paragraph - his teacher is "always looking at me that way and I know no matter what I say he aint gonna believe me."

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We set up an entire system that treats Percy with suspicion and asks him for compliance and assimilation. The system mirrors his experience of systems outside of school.

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We failed to identify this young man's strengths and the assets he brings to school each day.

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Other than the PIA teacher, the other school staff did not build a relationship with him in order to support the student with his peers or engaging the student in learning academic content

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Other than the PIA teacher, the other school staff did not build a relationship with him in order to support the student with his peers or engaging the student in learning academic content

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Percy does not feel positive attachment to most adults in the school; he feels that most teachers do not want to listen to him, acknowledge his perspective, spend time with him, or trust him. He feels judged and isolated

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We failed to listen to this student and understand his thoughts,  experiences, relationships, and interests.

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Each class this student attends should be a welcoming, trusting, respectful, and culturally proficient learning community.  (In addition, beyond the school day, the neighborhood -- including the police -- should also be a community characterized by deep relationships.)

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We are perpetuating a system where marginalized students feel even more marginalized. We don't create a culture of empathy, of recognition. The daily journal could be a space where the student feels safe to share some of these daily violations of his being, but instead it's an empty exercise for him. In class after class he is irrelevant to the teacher, and the material is irrelevant to him. But he still wants to express himself as evidenced by this writing he's done (where? in what context?). Only the shop teacher sees him as a human being and makes an effort to relate to him--and he responds to this human connection.

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We are perpetuating a system where marginalized students feel even more marginalized. We don't create a culture of empathy, of recognition. The daily journal could be a space where the student feels safe to share some of these daily violations of his being, but instead it's an empty exercise for him. In class after class he is irrelevant to the teacher, and the material is irrelevant to him. But he still wants to express himself as evidenced by this writing he's done (where? in what context?). Only the shop teacher sees him as a human being and makes an effort to relate to him--and he responds to this human connection.

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Failure/sadness/discouraged.  We have created an environment in which he feels invisible.  We have failed to provided resources, feedback, and/or accountability at the school to change the environment.    

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Failure/sadness/discouraged.  We have created an environment in which he feels invisible.  We have failed to provided resources, feedback, and/or accountability at the school to change the environment.    

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Our young people do not have the opportunity to be engaged in meaningful learning activities that empower them and require them to demonstrate their strengths. It is clear that Percy is a thoughtful young man that is able to articulate great details and he is emotionally intelligent. He should have more opportunities.

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We failed this young man by not recognizing him as an individual and not investing the time to build a relationship with him.  This leads to him not being able to really trust many adults and not seeing the value of education since the adults around him do not seem to care enough to invest their time with him.  

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We failed this young man by not recognizing him as an individual and not investing the time to build a relationship with him.  This leads to him not being able to really trust many adults and not seeing the value of education since the adults around him do not seem to care enough to invest their time with him.  

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This students has no faith in the adults in his life and believes they have no faith in him.

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We failed this young man as he struggled with outside issues that he did not share with people at his school who could have helped him to deal with the school police and to enjoy school.

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We failed this young man as he struggled with outside issues that he did not share with people at his school who could have helped him to deal with the school police and to enjoy school.

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We failed to make Percy feel valued, therefore he didn't value his school experience.

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We failed to see this young man as an individual.  Although he may have been interested in learning, some of his teachers did not take interest or invest in Percy.  Adults did not cultivate a relationship where he could feel safe and express himself. How can we fix this???