We are having a kind of share out session right now among the middle school faculty with Mark as the moderator. I am noticing that the people who are currently sharing out right now, if I look deeply, don’t really care so much about what their points are as much as they want the eyes of the group on them.
What is going on right now in here is, on the surface, an intellectual discussion about “how we understand things”, but really I think it is just a bunch of egos projecting out to say, invisibly, “Please love me and acknowledge me. Tell me that I have value in this group. I really need that.”
If this has any truth in it, and it may not because I am a whack job with issues not unconnected to the above points, could it be possible that the only real thing that our kids want from us is not what we are teaching them but rather how much love we can offer them, and how much acknowledgement they can get from the students in the classroom around them.
TPRS naturally allows us to do those things.