Nov

29

Trust, But Verify. Thank You, CSI.

Filed Under "At-risk" students, Behaviour Management, The Way I See It 

“Trust , but verify.” I heard that statement last night while watching one of the zillions of   CSI reruns that are on TV right now. Don’t ask me which episode it was because  I wasn’t actually watching the program. I was more like listening to it while I was trying to figure out a particularly tricky part of a knitting pattern I was using to make a scarf  for a friend. (The scarf’s looking great, bye the way.)  Little did I know yesterday that today “trust, but verify” would become my newest favourite motto.

Why has “trust, but verify”  become my newest favourite motto? Because it reminds me not to jump to conclusions.  When one of my students comes to me and complains that someone, usually a teacher,  is not treating them with  respect , I immediately believe my students and want to go and tear a strip off that person right the wrong.   For some reason, despite the fact that my students have been know  to lie  “to distort” or ” to omit” facts when telling me their story, my tendency is to  believe them (OK, so I still  have some issues) and am outraged and want to right the wrong.  Today after listening to another  tearful story and finding  out later that the facts were not exactly as first related, that motto came to mind. Trust, but verify. Thank you CSI.

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