When is it okay to hit someone?
That was the question I served the boys this morning. Kyle answered correctly, but my younger students were having a difficult time finding the connections.
Today was about trust issues, or in other words, not trusting their girlfriend’s based off of nothing substantial… just the fact that they don’t trust them.
I had the boys make their Violence Policy today. It’s a list of appropriate, and inappropriate times to use violence as a solution. Perhaps the only time it is appropriate is in the act of self-defense, but only Kyle’s policy showed that. The rest of the boys created all sorts of scenarios that justified violence.
I feel like some of the boys, despite their trust issues, are beginning to trust me, or at least I hope so.
As my Uncle Gustavo used to say, “Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.”
