Partner Workout
20 DB Push Presses (#45)
20 Burpees
20 DB Walking Lunges (#45)
"If you want to improve your life, you must improve yourself."
Every class I ask a different athlete to lead the warmup. The reason is simple: To give kids an opportunity to take charge and lead their fellow peers. While the task to lead a warmup seems rather simple on paper, most kids find it rather challenging. Even the most outgoing ones, start to get all giggly and shy when surrounded by a big group of other kids. But leading warmup creates a great learning tool and opportunity for kids to speak up, take charge and assume a leadership role. Over time, most kids enjoy a nice confidence boost and it becomes obvious in how they instruct the warmup.
The greatest discovery any outsider could make about Camden is it's overriding response to failure: If it didn’t work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE).
Every year they pass more laws, hire more police, build more prisons, and sentence more offenders for longer periods-all without moving one inch closer to “ending” crime. If it didn’t work last year or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Every year they spend more money on schools, hoping to “fix” whatever’s wrong with them, and every year the schools remain stubbornly unfixed. Spending money didn’t work last year or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Every year they try to make the criminals go away, and every year they remain with us. We couldn’t shoehorn these criminals back into the “the mainstream” last year or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Maybe its time to TRY something DIFFERENT.
Afterall, IF Camden is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.
Much of my inspiration comes from Daniel Quinn in "Ishmael."
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