March 2 – John Hunter, World Peace Games

Why aren’t all schools playing this game, Pua and I want to know???

This guy was very inspirational!  Humble.  World Peace and other 4th grade achiements will be shown on PBS in May.  We need to keep an eye out for it and remind each other.

In the game, 4 countries are pitted against each other in political, milllitary, social and economic conflict.  Students learn thru conflict. 

“no right or wrong answer”  “choose the one that is best for all people and then what’s best for yourself”

“other people matter, cannot win by yourself.  if work together can achieve anything.”

Mr. Hunter advocates for letting students decide for themselves what they should do, what is the right way.  He shared incredible stories of students’ self-sacrifice for greater good.  He spoke of heros.

He said that there is no next big thing to save a teacher.  It’s about the relationship between a teacher and student.  This survives policies which come and go.  Chad – school paper, riot, worse day of my life, 10 years later, University of Maryland, award, a child in my community will get to go to college.  You never know.  Not just teaching the child in front of me but teaching generations.  Never know how far your affect, how far your reach.  This guy IS James Brown!

 

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