Sheila, the troublesome 6 year old from Torey Hayden’s classroom was abused as a child in many, many ways. So she toughened, hardened up, refuses to feel sympathy for others and she doesn’t care about the suffering of others etc.
But once in Torey’s class they discovered that Sheila had a extremely high IQ, she broke all the school records for IQ tests.
If Torey had not tried with this troubled child then they would never have known what Sheila capable of. Far too many teachers ignore the poor child, or the troubled children, and only bother with the focused, well off polite A grade students (their enthusiasm means that they encourage the teachers, and they are easy to teach, making life easier for the teachers).
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Many of us have been abused as children, some lived frightening violent upbringings, and we reacted to our upbringing and how people treated us.
But the reality, is that many teachers are spiritually blind, and they need to understand that the worse child in the class could be the most intelligent, the most productive, and loving.
This explains why school dropouts have become some of the most important and successful people in the world.
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People tend to have favorites, even in the classroom. Many of us can remember that we never got a chance in school, yet teachers children and the teacher’s favorite’s (teachers pet) got opportunities we never saw.
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When my children were at Balmoral School, and I fixed the school computers I was pleasantly surprised at how different my children were treated at Balmoral School compared with their old school, Cargill School.
But the reality is that once I was helping out the school and staff (which I didn’t do at Cargill School) my children were given special treatment, and I resented that very much, and I tried to downplay it and only accept what the other children got for my own children.
Before I helped the school, one of my daughters had trouble with a child being a bully, but she was a teacher at the schools child, so complaints were ignored.
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When a child is given special treatment and spoiled, this is not the child’s fault and even as an adult the child need not feel guilty. We need to go understand the situation and do the best that we can to be the best that we can be.
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Sheila is proof that the most difficult mentally ill (according to the “experts”) person can be the most useful compassionate person around.
Please don’t let people label you or judge you, you are far more worthy than that.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
Friday, 25 March 2016, 5:47:48 AM.