“Even when I’m sleeping, I still feel that pain. The pain is like somewhere inside my head and I can always know it’s there. It’s always pushing me to my limits and it’s always pushing me past my limits.”1 ~ Jonathan Pitre TSN: People with your condition, they call them Butterfly Children. Why do they […]
9-year-old Sydney Smoot, a fourth grader at Brooksville Elementary, shared her concerns on testing in schools with members of the Hernando County School Board at their regular meeting on March 17, 2015. Speaking of the Florida Standards Assessment Test, or FSA for short, Sydney told the school board that: This testing looks at me as […]
To date I have never met one person in my life that hasn’t been through some kind of ordeal or that doesn’t have a bad story to tell. Not one. I do believe though that the choice is ours in how we deal with our stories. Do we let them define the rest of our […]