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Combat in the Classroom

Keeping at-risk teens in school with the martial arts

Steve Buck, in the companion newsletter to this video, describes how the internal arts helped him come out of his own emotional straight jacket.

So why not try it in his profession--as a special education teacher work with emotionally disturbed teens? Steve describes individual stories from his years of teaching where one of his kids would have his repressed history of abuse broached to the surface by the physical contact of training, and, as Steve says of one such narrative, "It was a breakthrough for him, the kind of kid unable to benefit from the verbal therapuetic route." Steve made new realizations about himself by feeling the chi and understanding his own sensations.

His program, while politically incorrect in the high-school climate, seems to work as his kids have gone on to finish high school, go to college and find suitable adult vocations .

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