I hope...

wow. Freedom Writers. Intense.

I hope that someday I will have the guts to stand up in front of people whom I know are judging me from my core to my outward appearance and passionately say what I believe while asking them to push themselves to consider a judgment or opinion outside of their first.

I hope that someday I will be able to have such a climate of respect in my classroom that students will be truly free to speak their minds.

I hope that someday I will be able to stand up to individuals who use their authority in ways that diminish the lives of my students.

I hope that someday I will be able to take on the role of a teacher in a classroom where every student depends on me, but in which no student recognizes his need for learning. This is where progress is made.

I hope that someday I will be able to facilitate a discussion that, at the very least, lends students new ideas and ways to view the world so that they may be able to learn to think in terms of other perspectives.

I have a lot of hope....