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this life is like my home away from home a

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safe place being able to come

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here every single day and

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have that safe place is

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something really amazing

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the Reverend

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Rivera's Mission take into account that

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kids from the inner city can learn

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just as well as different students

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in the area was really something

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that I was very confident and

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he introduced the idea of open up school to

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improve the community I was all

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for it and excited for it isn't

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right and

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so we really do everything we

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I'm just support the kids to be their best selves

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whatever that looks like however that feels

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in the moment we do what we need to do to make sure that the kids have

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their backup my favorite thing about flax

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is definitely the community and how representative

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the teachers

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at the school so you

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know every student can have somebody

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to turn to when they have problems or

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conflicts and I feel like that's one of

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the main part that I love about black the staff

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and the teachers are very nurturing

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I so not only are we teaching the students but where

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I'm taking care of them while

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I've been here since kindergarten

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and five

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years just come from

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Dominican Republic when I joined the school

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I didn't really know English there was a CLA

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teacher that help me with my English good not

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kind of like that they need you to learn English

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by yourself not to mention

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one of my teachers spoke Spanish so she

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was kind of translated everything for

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while it was still learning and also I think we

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have a well-balanced program here

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right so our curriculum we've worked very hard

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as school together to

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create curriculum that really Target the needs

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of the children in this community we look at

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beta to see how we can better better

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service do students right because our

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goal is to send these children out into

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society to be good citizens right

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children that can do anything

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that they want to do in the future and be anything they

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in the future please do all of our schools

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have a program called a second stop which

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of the social emotional learning program that helps

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them regulate their emotions so everything

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from learning techniques and how to breathe

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being a

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being a responsible citizen being

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an upstander instead of a bystander

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so that's one way that we work

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with the children and you can be yourself. Would have make

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new friends if you feel like you're

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not safe any of the school is definitely a

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tri-community you are able to get

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along with a lot of the staff here you can get help if you need

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it and it's a genuine it's a

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good part of the name

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says it all we're

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saying it over and over again but because it

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it is a family our kids

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cry on the last day of school because they don't want to

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leave there worried about coming in

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on the first day but they're greeted with hellos

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from everyone from security custodians

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teacher's assistant school

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everyone knows everyone's name and

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that also makes a huge difference because we take the time

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to learn about our kids to know who they are they'll

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get hugs if they need a hug

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they'll sit here and have lunch with us if they want to have lunch

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with us we'll go in and we'll teach

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will do whatever it takes to make sure

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that our kids are successful in that they know that they're loved

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and a lot of times we've told our kids over

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the years I love you and they look at

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us like who you telling me I love

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you but we say it because we mean it

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and we want to make sure that our kids are well-rounded but

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that's social emotional part is very

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very important but then

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that's what makes the sand out