I just love Bettie F. kids. They are awesome! They want to learn. Sometimes our kids aren’t compliant all the time. Sometimes our parents aren’t able to be involved. Sometimes our kids haven’t been through the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel or even to the beach. My kids don’t come with cello practice every afternoon and they don’t come from chess club. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t take this blank slate and paint a beautiful portrait with these kids. It doesn’t mean these kids are any less gifted than other students; they just haven’t had an opportunity. And we have to provide these kids with an opportunity. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. I need kids who are energetic and charismatic like me. I love that! These kids and I have conversations that we would never have at other schools. When my mother came here to visit, she asked me, “What’s with all the hugging?” I said, “Ma, they hug all the time. They hug all the time.”
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