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I had never seen a school like this before… Kids walked around school with dozens of parents greeting them in the halls by first names both student and teachers. Literally the magic brought me to tears that me and my children could be a part of this!
…even though they are Kinder teachers and 8th grade teachers they collaborate to teach, both grades together. It shows the kinders that the oldest kids in the school are kind, gentle and will help you pick books from the library, read to you, and say hi to you on the play yard. That is a priceless gift.
The kindness, patience and compassion we have just taught both kinder and 8th graders didn’t start with us teaching our 8th graders to be kind humans. It came from 7 years prior when they were a little impressionable kinder who had an 8th grade buddy who was kind, gentle and patient and they said, I can’t wait till I’m a big kid like that. And I can’t wait be that for another student one day. They don’t know it at the time. But 7 years of that example set by the parents, teachers and peers. That is just who they become.
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Tanya Perio Guido, Mother of Dominic (6th grader) and Justice, Christian, and Vincent (alumni and volunteers); Volunteer Parent Teacher