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The bad stuff that could be When I was in grade school I couldn’t do gymnastics the balance beam was even a weak spot the teachers every year would try to get me to do it and that made me wait to fail more and more until I actually tried it and failed I was a tall girl they had to give me a chair so when I jumped to the I don’t even know what they called those things where you keep your head over the bar and you hold yourself up with your hands I needed a chair so that I could make the jump up to this bar so that I could fail, or rather, so I could try after all these years of not making this exercise work for me, this one year the gym teacher told me that since I was so tall I shouldn’t jump higher, and then I wouldn’t have to work so hard at succeeding at the next test I did what she said, and she was right. It was the first time I didn’t fail that gym test, all because someone explained it to me in a way I could understand there are people out there that want to learn there are people out there that want to teach but we all have to find the right way to do it the right way to teach and learn, naturally Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.