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(Jonathan Ganz) wrote in message ...
In article . net,
Pony Express wrote:
During the summer, we run a 'Hood Kids' program
for kids from Paterson Park (a not so nice area of
Baltimore city). We taught them to sail, but they
were far from polite and well behaved. If you
banned the vulgar language, those kids wouldn't
have been able to talk.

Sounds like a group of sailors, and at times... silence is golden.

They also could not
comprehend the concept of de-rigging and putting
things away.

Perhaps you need to find a way to encourage them to do a better job.

Every session had at least one fight
between the kids.

Sounds like an average group of Sailors.

No, these home schooled kids were really great.
Even my son, who is in our high school program
(which is also running) said the home school group
is better than the high school group.
S.

Thats because the home schooled kids get better leadership & support.

We don't deal with kids that are uncontrollable.

What do you do?

IMO it would be more rewarding to teach kids that come in and are
"uncontrollable". And have them leave more mature and
responsable.

I think all kids
would rather sail than put stuff away, but you've got to have guts to
take on the kind you mentioned.

Yelp guts and the willingness to try to make a difference. Who
knows.... one of the "uncontrollable" kids might find discipline and
something positive to focus on. You might make the world a better
place.

"A teacher is one who TAKES what he or she is GIVEN, and GIVES what
cannot be TAKEN."

Joe

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