TEARS

About the Book

TEARS is about children who attend our schools. The book identifies reasons for the failures or successes of our students. These reasons, for many students, have very little to do with academic skills, or the lack thereof. This book describes social and emotional dynamics that heavily contribute to the outcome of the school experiences of our children.

TEARS identifies the lives of students who attend our schools under some very trying circumstances. The reader will learn about factors that contribute to their pain, anger, victimization and, sometimes, death. This book is about learning, parenting, teaching and surviving.

TEARS tells stories of our student’s lives before, during and after school. It describes problems that are ongoing, yet unknown to many teachers, school administrators, media experts, politicians, academic pundits and preachers. This book gives a glimpse of why so many students eventually fail or drop out of school. TEARS tells stories from the school’s counselor, as told to him, by the students, teachers, or parents. On a daily basis, students search, desperately, for solutions to their problems. Some of them find temporary answers, while others find more questions. While these events occurred in California schools, it is safe to conclude that identical events are occurring in schools throughout the United States. This book is about some children who cry a lot, while attempting to survive in a society that provides very few dry handkerchiefs. T E A R S W i t t e n

About the Author

TEARS is a book about our school children. It is also about our school s. the failures and successes of those students who attend them. It is about why students fail and succeed, but the reasons have very little to do with academic skills. This book displays social and emotional reasons for their failures. It is also about successes that occur under some very trying circumstances. This book is an account of those dynamics that creates pain, anger, and sometimes death for children. It is a statement about learning, parenting, teaching and surviving. This book is a compilation of stories that explains the failure or success of our students. It is an unseen view of their lives that is ongoing and unknown to most teachers and school officials. This book is a picture of why failure occurs so frequently. It depicts how failure is created outside the classrooms of our schools, inside the classrooms of our schools and in places that have nothing to do with the classrooms of our schools. This failure, for many students, is born before and after school is opened or closed for the day. These experiences continue to be unknown to school superintendents, subordinate e administrators, principals, teachers, media experts, politicians and the public, at large. It is about the lives of children who live in poverty, violence. Divorces, deaths and unfinished homework This book is a depiction of failure, success, pain, joy, life and death. It is told through the experiences with students by a school's Social Work Counselor. On a daily basis, students search for solutions to some of the dysfunctions of their family and some of the ills of society. Some of them find relief and temporary answers to their questions, while others fail miserably. While these stories occurred in California, one can safely conclude that there are similar stories existing in all other American schools and states. This is a story about a lot of children shedding a lot of tears, while attempting to survive in a society that provides very few dry handkerchiefs.