In Praise of ‘Difficult’ Kids
May 6, 2026
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as posted by the channel“Many of the adults that I most admire, they were not easy teenagers,” Russell Shaw says. He examines how feisty kids—who made some teachers quietly miserable—may possess a “moral fire” that deserves cultivation:
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