The Good Lessons, Arturo HernandezSametier
The Good Lessons, Arturo HernandezSametier
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The Good Lessons
A Teaching Life with Gangs, Delinquents and Troubled Teens

Author: Arturo Hernandez-Sametier

Narrator: Johnny Rey Diaz

Unabridged: 2 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/02/2021


Synopsis

The Good Lessons

"A necessary read for anyone serious about personal transformation and peace in our communities." Luis Rodriguez, Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, and author of "Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A."

A provocative, inspiring, and highly original take on the education and healing of troubled, alienated and gang involved youth. These are beautiful, harrowing stories of transformation as both a high-crime urban and a reservation Indian community decide to throw out convention and rethink what it means, and what it takes, to raise their most alienated and difficult children.

Raised in East Los Angeles and also a professional musician, Hernandez-Sametier has been a teacher, counselor and principal in some of the most difficult urban and rural school environments across the U.S. and Indian Country. He recently served as a therapist for high-trauma, unaccompanied minors detained by U.S. immigration. In 2006, he was honored as the "national educator of the year" by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education.

Reviews

Important reading The 1st part of the book describes the Despair and futility of trying to help problem children through government or charitable 'programs'. My foster son went through many such programs when he went back to his mother and he was always pronounced cured but he never was. What it took......more