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My husband suggested that I use this poem as a follow up to a field trip
that I took with some of my middle school students to a prison yesterday.
These boys have multiple disciplinary referrals and participated in a
program called Project Aware where inmates with natural life sentences try
to sway the behaviors of young children with a riveting and authentic
presentation. The words of the poem are so strong that maybe after
yesterday, it will get through to my boys.
Desiree Moore from United States