June 24, 2025

People Are People. Blog #389.

How do we encourage ourselves to see people as people, withholding judgment, encouraging acceptance, and inclusion?  I’ll never forget the day my daughter came home and was accused of plagiarism in front of the entire class by a teacher. She asked the teacher what part of her work was not cited properly or paraphrased. When the teacher showed her, she said, “I am so sorry, but I did not plagiarize.  I forgot to change the font when I transferred the information from my computer notes to the paper.  Those are my words.”  The teacher was unable to find any…