Although we are supposed to be achieving 100% compliance 100% of the time, I have yet to see this happen (and yes, I know that as teachers, when our students aren't engaged that's on us and not them). We have however come pretty damn close. Yesterday morning we had student engagement that brought a smile to my face. Then, I see one of our little boys head banging like he's at a rock concert and a little girl (who wants to be a hairdresser when she grows up (: ) who was hitting herself like she belongs on a step team. We asked one of our summer mentors why our kids do this weird crazy stuff (among many other behaviors, another being lying on the carpet sprawled out like a cat right in the middle of a lesson). She says something on the lines of...You know that feeling you get when you're drunk and about to do something super weird but you do it anyway? That's the feeling they are trying to get. Remember when you were little and spun around to get dizzy? It's kind of like that.
YES I DO REMEMBER, and it was the best!
So, I urge you, if you want to remember what it was like to be a 6 year old who doesn't want to be in school, just go spin.
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