Courage and students

After Reading the book for this class period, I really found myself making connections for students in the high school level. There are so many parts of this book that they can relate to. Coming from a poor family, being bullied and beat, only having a few friends, and then having the courage to try out for the Varsity basketball team and making it?! What a great motivational book for one to read. Students nowadays have such a problem with self esteem and self worth. There is so much negativity and so many ways to put students down (each other) via social media. It's so easy to write a negative comment and push send right away...before electronics, we had to think about what we were going to say, which most of the time lead to it being left unsaid or talked out. This resolved the issues of bullying and lack of courage. What is it that sends students to social media to fight back? What sends their parents to social media to stand up for their children? What would we do if we had no social media available? It's important to help students help each other and have that peer partnership.