 Photo Cred: Brownz Photography Hey ya'll. My Chapter 28 chapter starts March 1st. If you're a pisces, comment your birthday for a special gift from me. I am hardly ever personable or expressive about my trials and tribulation online. I kept a lot of it to myself in chapter 27. Despite feeling nervous about disclosing this testimony before, I feel inclined to now because I believe my testimony can help someone who can relate.  Testimony:
I became a licensed High School English Teacher (ELA) in 2016 and kickstarted my career in a charter school. The following year, I spontaneously got a call about a vacancy at a juvenile facility to teach incarcerated youth ELA and prepare them to pass their regents or GED exam. Although this was not in my future plans, I went to the interview and accepted the position because my intuition told me that this opportunity was bigger than helping incarcerated youth gain academic success. I felt that they needed to renew their mentality by developing positive thinking habits. After listening to their perspective on their community and themselves, I knew their only goal couldn’t be to go to college when they were released. They needed divine intervention and healing in my eyes because they were victims of severe trauma, which led them to commit the crimes some admitted to committing. Fast forward to after serving 4 years, I was surprised by how consumed I was by their experiences and my journey with coping through it. The facility also exposed me to the essence of political bullshit and the classroom restrictions tainted my teacher philosophies. (I can dive deeper into my experience working in a juvenile facility but that friends, I’ll save for a future post.) .
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AuthorMonique is a teacher, entrepreneur, mother, and writer. She wears multiple hats due to her mission - living her best life unapologetically as if every day is her last day. She aspires to help all people with personal development and their health and fitness journey. ArchivesCategoriesAll Career Health Juvenile Facility Mental Health Personal Development Reflection Self Love |
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