Years of ribbing by older cousins has given me a thick skin that helps the daily work I do with middle school students. But this thick skin, my shield, has
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How My School Helped Me Get Straight A’s, Lose Weight, and Forgive My Drug-Addict Birth Mom
Perspectives Charter School isn’t just a school for me. It has given me the foundation to open up my heart. It turned me into a straight-A student, helped
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From preschool till my freshman year of high school, my grandma and I would commute about 30-40 minutes each day to a different city so I would be able to
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When you go to school, you should never feel like just another seat in the class. Everyone in the school should know you by name—not just the teachers, but
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