Don’t Lose a Student

Do-Not-Lose-A-StudentIf you’ve followed this blog at all you know that I spent several years working with socially and emotionally impaired adolescents and while I found this to be a very rewarding profession it came with some stressful times. There were also several situations where at the time I thought I was making a good decision only to realize later that my thought process was a bit off.

One such time was during a wilderness camping trip. A couple of programs I worked with had a wilderness camping component. It was a way to get the kids away from their home environment, see them outside of school and work on core issues.

For most of these two and three-day wilderness trips we would select a camping area near a lake to take advantage of water activities, but one occasion we ended up camping next to a river.

This particular trip was in mid August so the weather was hot and the river water was cool, but perfect for bathing and fishing.

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