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| I'm sure the kids I worked with today have bad days...but they were so pleasant to me, especially when contrasted with the particularly snarky teens I've come across recently. I mean, really. You haven't learned how to just be quiet at school YET? |
poised, polite,
friendly, focused.
Different sort of student,
that's for sure.
Mentally challenged?
Choose your labels carefully.
Depends on one's perspective,
frame of reference, who you know.
These kids would win, I think,
competing with some others
I could mention but will not,
if categories were kept to things like
kindness and respect,
trying really hard, good cheer.
Developmental disability
has its downside, sure,
but when you talk of attitude,
there's an awful lot of up.
(c) Ellen Gillette, 2013
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