Comments on: So Bashful

By: lisa

lisa — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 03:41:17 +0000

Lot’s of good stuff in here Peter! Interesting observation. The scenario you shared plays itself out in so many different ways every day. Adults are just as guilty as those elementary students you teach. It really would be nice if we could become an “I’m sorry” and “are you alright” kind of society. I’m thinking of an angle for the blog you are challenging me to write. If you say I’m up…I’ll definitely take a swing. Stay tuned.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 17:54:23 +0000

I like this one. I deal with students all day long in music class that have no idea about sorry. The motivation behind sorry is taking responsibility for your actions whether those actions were intended or not. A student is walking to line up and isn’t looking where he is going. BUMP he goes into Johnny. Since Sorry isn’t in the nature of this population, his first response is anger at the audacity Sam had to invade his space so violently! Even though it was quite by accident with never a thought of “assaulting” Johnny, Sam doesn’t say sorry. Escalation comes next with Sam in an being insulted to the point of anger at the other boy’s assumptions. Sorry could have deflected the anger of the other boy leaaving him with nothing to be so mad about. If said more often in such situations its possible that Johnny who was bumped in the first place would have allowed himself to consider it was just an accident and be open to the question “are you alright?” Extending himself outside of his own world. This of course is a whole other topic for another blog….Lisa, you’re up.

By: Holly and Jayden

Holly and Jayden — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:46:49 +0000

Lisa, you have an amazing gift with words! This one is my favorite so far. Well said!