Comments on: Loosing a student - a tragedy for Alternative Education http://21stcenturyleader.edublogs.org/2008/05/18/loosing-a-student-a-tragedy-for-alternative-education/ Another excellent source of creative thinking for Special and Alternative Education Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:49:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Gregg Beardsley http://21stcenturyleader.edublogs.org/2008/05/18/loosing-a-student-a-tragedy-for-alternative-education/#comment-83 Gregg Beardsley Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:02:50 +0000 http://21stcenturyleader.edublogs.org/2008/05/18/loosing-a-student-a-tragedy-for-alternative-education/#comment-83 Una, Please let me add one more thing. I was amazed at the amount of my colleagues who expressed their sympathy and offered their assistance. You don't know how much that helped. Una,
Please let me add one more thing. I was amazed at the amount of my colleagues who expressed their sympathy and offered their assistance. You don’t know how much that helped.

]]> By: Gregg Beardsley http://21stcenturyleader.edublogs.org/2008/05/18/loosing-a-student-a-tragedy-for-alternative-education/#comment-82 Gregg Beardsley Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:00:17 +0000 http://21stcenturyleader.edublogs.org/2008/05/18/loosing-a-student-a-tragedy-for-alternative-education/#comment-82 Una, Very nice thoughts. Una,
Very nice thoughts.

]]> By: Melissa http://21stcenturyleader.edublogs.org/2008/05/18/loosing-a-student-a-tragedy-for-alternative-education/#comment-81 Melissa Tue, 27 May 2008 21:35:08 +0000 http://21stcenturyleader.edublogs.org/2008/05/18/loosing-a-student-a-tragedy-for-alternative-education/#comment-81 Una, thank you for sharing your insight. Although never fully equipped to handle all that comes before us, we can all certainly learn from and appreciate the strength and compassion that you demonstrated to the press, the teachers, and the students. My thoughts are with you. Una, thank you for sharing your insight. Although never fully equipped to handle all that comes before us, we can all certainly learn from and appreciate the strength and compassion that you demonstrated to the press, the teachers, and the students.

My thoughts are with you.

]]> By: Christine http://21stcenturyleader.edublogs.org/2008/05/18/loosing-a-student-a-tragedy-for-alternative-education/#comment-80 Christine Thu, 22 May 2008 01:17:14 +0000 http://21stcenturyleader.edublogs.org/2008/05/18/loosing-a-student-a-tragedy-for-alternative-education/#comment-80 I went over to Hewes that Friday to try to help. There was no way to help; just support and comfort everyone in the building. Each person, whether staff or student, handles grief differently. Along with everyone, I hope it is an experience that we do not have again. It was very clear that day just how much Ken will be missed. I went over to Hewes that Friday to try to help. There was no way to help; just support and comfort everyone in the building. Each person, whether staff or student, handles grief differently. Along with everyone, I hope it is an experience that we do not have again. It was very clear that day just how much Ken will be missed.

]]> By: Andrew http://21stcenturyleader.edublogs.org/2008/05/18/loosing-a-student-a-tragedy-for-alternative-education/#comment-79 Andrew Tue, 20 May 2008 23:51:12 +0000 http://21stcenturyleader.edublogs.org/2008/05/18/loosing-a-student-a-tragedy-for-alternative-education/#comment-79 I appreciate the poignancy of the situation and support your participation in it. Courage, as noted by the writer Ernest Hemingway, can be defined as grace under pressure. I believe you demonstrated this on a variety of levels. Certainly your sanguine nature is clearly portrayed and understood. In your role as educational leader I might point out the opportunity to educate those with less experience i.e. media persons. Alternative learning attempts to address a variety of learning styles, needs and circumstances. These are not merely disaffected youth. For Woodrow Wilson, the American scholar, statesman, and 28th president of the U.S.A, couldn't read until he was ten-years-old. Actor Anthony Hopkins thought he was a "moron," as a child, because he was so hopeless in school. Not everyone fits into the traditional assembly line model of education. Thank you for speaking up for those who are different, worthy of celebration, appreciation and mourning. I appreciate the poignancy of the situation and support your participation in it. Courage, as noted by the writer Ernest Hemingway, can be defined as grace under pressure. I believe you demonstrated this on a variety of levels. Certainly your sanguine nature is clearly portrayed and understood. In your role as educational leader I might point out the opportunity to educate those with less experience i.e. media persons. Alternative learning attempts to address a variety of learning styles, needs and circumstances. These are not merely disaffected youth. For Woodrow Wilson, the American scholar, statesman, and 28th president of the U.S.A, couldn’t read until he was ten-years-old. Actor Anthony Hopkins thought he was a “moron,” as a child, because he was so hopeless in school.

Not everyone fits into the traditional assembly line model of education.

Thank you for speaking up for those who are different, worthy of celebration, appreciation and mourning.

]]> By: Paula Kenneson http://21stcenturyleader.edublogs.org/2008/05/18/loosing-a-student-a-tragedy-for-alternative-education/#comment-78 Paula Kenneson Mon, 19 May 2008 11:23:19 +0000 http://21stcenturyleader.edublogs.org/2008/05/18/loosing-a-student-a-tragedy-for-alternative-education/#comment-78 Una and staff, My thoughts and prayers and with the student, his family and all of you. It is hard to lose a student. If I had to choose one thing to never live through as an educator it would be loosing a student to death. A few years back we at LoGuidice also lost a middle school student to a hit and run drunk driver. I have never been so shaken and unable to control my emotions. To meet with the school and break the news was the hardest thing I have ever done. But as you, Una, I tried to celebrate his life and take comfort that there was an Alternative School setting for him to find his way in his short life. Life in school stopped that day but also carried on. Hopefully we all will keep the kindness and concern in our hearts, lessons and dealings with children that was felt the days after the death of these young people. Paula Kenneson Una and staff,
My thoughts and prayers and with the student, his family and all of you. It is hard to lose a student. If I had to choose one thing to never live through as an educator it would be loosing a student to death.
A few years back we at LoGuidice also lost a middle school student to a hit and run drunk driver. I have never been so shaken and unable to control my emotions. To meet with the school and break the news was the hardest thing I have ever done. But as you, Una, I tried to celebrate his life and take comfort that there was an Alternative School setting for him to find his way in his short life. Life in school stopped that day but also carried on.
Hopefully we all will keep the kindness and concern in our hearts, lessons and dealings with children that was felt the days after the death of these young people.

Paula Kenneson

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