Poverty.. Abuse .. Hearing Impairments.. If its not our trial its someone else's

This week was enjoyable! I learned a bunch about hearing impairments that I didn't already know. I learned about abuse in homes and poverty of which was a very good reminder that i was lucky to escape.  I felt like this week my thinking was activated, I felt like my prior experiences in life allowed me to see and understand the difficulties that some of the story's people were telling in class and on the film we watched about poverty.
            I think in order to learn more or better, that not only should i share my experience when that opportunity arises but to ask a question that i may have had when i was in that situation that i may have never received an answer to. .. such as why is it that teachers don't investigate when all a student wears to class are pajamas and reaks like drugs and cigarettes?.. can they not do anything because there are no signs of abuse? i feel like asking such questions will connect those experiences to the current knowledge we are receiving in class

I honestly feel like this week I learned from my past experiences, I learned that what happened to me isn't a normal, as in people shouldn't live that way, however its more common than i thought. I could honestly sit there and understand what being homeless was like, living in hotels, not knowing if we were going to get to sleep in the shelter or not that night. I could sit there and remember thinking as a child if someone knew that the mean big man who wasn't my father had just beat me, would they do something, would anyone care? I am so grateful i got to sit there in class and know that other children go through this, that way i can be aware of it, so i can for signs and know how to by law and through my own loving human ways help this child and possibly their family. So yes this week i learned by experience, i set new goal because of my experience, but at the same time i also learned a lot via discussions, hearing what normal people thought or think of the
certain situations, and listening to other peoples stories.

I feel like as I may have  mentioned or alluded to before that because of the discussions the new information and the experiences that i have had in the past that i feel well equipped to notice children who may be being abused or living in poverty...

Well two of my peers presented the hearing impairment presentation on Friday and i feel like they understood it because they definitely allowed be to understand a lot more than what i had previously. I feel like again that when we have discussions in class our table makes comments amongst each-other that i feel allows us to grow in ways i feel like a normal mdt team would i guess with such foundations of trust to share opions thoughts and to ask question when uncertainty sets in.