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Belmont High students unleash their pain on paper
- 06-15-2010
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By Beth Shuster/Los Angeles Times
The assignment was straightforward: What is the greatest obstacle you have ever overcome, and how did you overcome it? The results were extraordinary. Belmont High School English teacher Cassandra McGrath didn't expect the essays and poems to be as powerful, moving and, in some cases, tragic. Her ninth- and 10th-graders wrote eloquently about the death of a beloved cousin, motherhood, self-injury, domestic violence, alcoholism, abuse. The project gave McGrath, 25, a second-year teacher, a new perspective on the kinds of challenges her students bring to school each day. (more...)
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