Imagine back to when you were a young teenager. What would it be like to be removed from your parents’ home? Your parents were hitting you and often weren’t taking care of you.
Child welfare officials placed you in a foster home where you felt lost. The foster mother was nice, but you didn’t want to be there and you felt like a guest. You go to school but you are not doing well. You don’t feel like the other kids accept you and you feel isolated. You are getting in trouble on a regular basis, which is causing more problems in your foster home.
One day you have an altercation at school and you just want to leave. The teacher is blocking the way out of the room and you push your way past her. You are arrested and brought to the police station and charged with aggravated battery to a teacher.
[For more of this story, written by Mark Werner, go to http://jjie.org/pilot-program-...re-they-need/212429/]
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