Congressman Eric Swalwell, who we occasionally must remind ourselves tried and failed miserably to run for President of the United States, has taken to social media to bemoan the state of crime in California.
In the roughly nine years I spent in the classroom teaching America’s Youth, one of the toughest moments that could potentially be the most rewarding was when a student was working their way toward an answer and they were getting closer and closer. As an educator, that moment when the student makes the connection on their own, and you feel all that work teaching them how to do it on their own, generates such a good feeling.
But, it’s always the rough patch in the middle when the student is so close, and yet isn’t quite able to get there. You want to help them out, give them the answer and let them work backward, but you know that the right thing to do is to let them work it out…
