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Hello, everybody.
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My name is Laurie and I am 40 years old,
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married with three Children who are very active in sports.
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Have one that is a senior have one that's in
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eighth grade and one that's in sixth grade.
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I, um my major is in special education.
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I hope one day I can teach mm Children with
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special needs and help them Mm.
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Along their path in their education.
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Um, my definition of diversity would probably be that when
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students have the chance to interact with those of other
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races FN ethnicities can't say that Words are and, um,
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cultures. It basically is better and helps them to prepare
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for work for life.
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Um, basically, just about anything that we do in this
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world, Um, an integrated classroom, um helps Children to learn
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how to be creative.
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Um, have better critical thinking, veteran problem solving.
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Um, I think kids that have ah lot of different
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viewpoints can, um, basically bring something different to the table
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every day.
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So you always have someone that has a different point
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of view.
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It allows everyone to look at things from from every
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angle on DDE, which is a part of life.
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Um I've talked about my family.
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Something interesting about myself.
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Long time ago, I m got a scholarship to play
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basketball at West Alabama.
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Um, play there for a couple of years.
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Tore my A C L twice, um, came home, got
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married, had Children.
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So basically, I went about school all backwards.
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You? Mm.
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At that point in my life, I thought basketball was
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important. So, um, again teaching my Children too, do the
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right thing and get their education first and know that
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that is the most important thing to do.
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I look forward to learning new things in this class
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on. Look forward to meeting everyone.