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Richard Whittaker
I had 108 guys and just two of us adults. When I first went in there it was a totally unsafe place. People were punching each other out, all kinds of stuff. It wasn't going to happen on my shift. Eventually a dangerous place became a safe place. I became a lead counselor. It was all intuitive."
Educators would ask, "Why are you visiting us?" I said, "I see that your students are 100% children in poverty, but they are doing as well as your higher wealth comparables." What I found was that the students were involved with the arts. They weren't doing the narrow curriculum of drill and kill.
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