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Third graders teach lessons to high school news staff

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Most people believe that you can gain the most amount of wisdom from your elders. When this isn’t necessarily false, The Crier staff recently realized that those whom have only single digit years on this earth may lend themselves to teaching us lessons more than we give them credit for.

The Crier staff had an extraordinary opportunity to go to a third grade Saint Francis Elementary for a week to help write a newspaper. Each staff member paired up with one or two third graders in a collaborative effort to report on stories affecting the elementary school and the student body. Through the writing process, staff members interacted not only with their 3rd grade counterparts, but also with other students throughout the building. We attended lunch and recess with the elementary students. For a lot of us, it brought back memories from our days in grade school.

The most profound realization among our staff was that these energetic, young students didn’t mask emotions or thoughts, rather let their mind speak wild. It brought smiles to our faces, and laughter to our voices in some brutally honest circumstances – it’s these things that helped our staff enjoy the simpler things in life, rather than the hustle and bustle of the life inside high school.

One of the blasts from the past – recess. During recess Crier students recall the “drama” of who’s chasing who, and who caught who. These elementary students were not interested in girlfriends and boyfriends unlike their high school mentors. Their high school counterparts want what all elementary students fear, being caught.

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This chance to go and experience life as a third grader is an awesome one for students at Saint Francis High School. The Crier Staff appreciates other organizations like Youth Teaching Youth and LINK, which reaches out to youth also. It’s time that people start attempting to learn from not only elders or their own life experiences, but also try to learn from their young friends too.

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