"All too often, parents and kids struggle to find an empathetic ear when confronting bullying situation; these escalate and too often result in marginalization, on top of what may well be a daily gauntlet of harassment and abuse that is fundamentally torture."

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Lee Hirsch

#Bullying Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Kids Quotes

“Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.”
“Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete.”
“Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.”
“I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?”
“What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.”
“In this fall - this is very tough - in this fall I'm going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat.”
“Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.”
“Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.”

Source : George Leonard (1987). “Education and Ecstasy: With, "The Great School Reform Hoax"”, p.7, North Atlantic Books

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