Dear Hannah: Mission Statement Part 9 - #AnnualReport (Episode 4 - Part 3 (Jabronis))

Reach - Then Teach

Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. I just completed another school year. I am trying to see where I have been ... and where I am going. Sometimes you teach people how to treat you. Sometimes they teach you how to treat them. I have mentioned my 3rd-block class a lot here. In the Spring, we built a certain comfort and familiarity ... which can often breed contempt. Near the end of the school year, I casually referred to my 3rd-block class as "jabronis" while telling them what we would do on that day. I was channeling Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson from his wrestling days. What I did not know, though, was what "The Rock" was "cookin'" when he used the word ...