Yesterday
in one of my education classes, we watched The
Ron Clark Story with Matthew Perry as the lead main character. It is about
a teacher who leaves a North Carolina elementary school, a school where
students are easy to teach, and moves to Harlem and ends up teaching the lowest
5th grade class in the particular elementary school. Mr. Clark
started teaching just before Christmas break, and he was the sixth teacher in
that classroom already. You see, nobody believed in, or even thought of, the
potential these students (poor behavior and all) could have. They weren’t
really given any chances, and everyone in each of those students’ lives had
very low expectations of and standards for them, so those 5th
graders started feeling like they weren’t worth saving in the education system
and started not caring. There were even bets that Mr. Clark would be gone
within the week. Mr. Clark set out to prove everyone wrong, including the
school principal, and, oh wait, never mind, I won’t tell you the entire story.
It is a movie worth watching. At the end a cried tears of anger, and then tears
of joy.
The song above reminds me of the movie. It talks about loving the least, emphasizing orphaned children,
because the Son served the least by adhering to their needs. He came to serve not to be
served. If the King of kings was a servant to all, the least we can do is say
hello to an the least of these/us.
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