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    • « Reflection on Silent Epidemic | Home | Beaverton Drop out Rates »

    Reflection on what I have learned from Lesson 1 info.

    By fhernandez | March 26, 2009

    The things that are being discussed are things that I have been exposed to in passing while doing my work as a case manager in Portland. I have not had them concentrated in the manner that they are put forth in this lesson and I have started to make connections amongst some of those factors that I can probably see as being true. The most surprising part of the lesson has been that kids feel they have too much freedom, which to mean seems to contradict what most teens want. I have heard students tell me that they do not want to be treated as a child or middle schooler, so to hear some of them say that having too much freedom is a bad thing. It is interesting how some students want that freedom and others do not and my big concern now is how to find the correct balance of freedom and structure.

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