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Following email received from Linda Haft, Education Director for Hudson/Bergen Counties, NJ in March, 2008:
I am currently in a particularly disorderly High School. However, for me it is a breath of fresh air as I feel most comfortable with these students. I do three 10th grade Health classes for 3 days each. I am allowed just 3-ninety minute classes to turn their lives around.
On day one after a brief overview of STDs, one "thug" complained loudly with expletives "what am I going to do if I can't get any [sex]!!!" At the finish of the third day he came to me, shook my hand (this is never done by them) and looked straight at me with a smiling, bright clear face saying,"I thank you so much. You have completely changed my head on all this. I am going to be more focused on my goals now." I smiled, looking into his eyes, saying "You WILL be successful. [I knew at this moment he believed it himself]. Don't let the shorties distract you". He was so serious and said he understood. It was as if now, he has received permission to become successful.
Then a young "couple " came up to me. The young man is a virgin and was so ecstatic after the first day saying "I KNEW IT!" because he knew abstinence was best but was being ridiculed for being a virgin. He recently began a relationship with a little Latina with many piercings. She came up to me with him and sincerely asked, "How do I become a secondary virgin?"
INCREDIBLE!!!!! Usually young people think, "Oh, I have been saving my virginity and now I will give it up to this person." The opposite happened! She knew that if she wanted such a fine young man she had to rise to his standard!
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