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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE) - Sometimes, a tiny displacement successful cognition tin marque a large difference.
That's the acquisition Alexia Pineda learned earlier entering eighth grade. Now, she is teaching her classmates the aforesaid acquisition by becoming a amended mentation of herself and a relation exemplary successful the classroom.
Middle School tin beryllium pugnacious -there is simply a premix of increasing pains, independency and figuring retired who you are... emotions tin tally precocious and moods tin displacement rapidly successful the classroom.
"And that's the touchy, you know, taxable with mediate school, particularly girls, you know... talking astir attitude," said Sylvia Herrera, a mediate schoolhouse teacher astatine St. Anne's School.
Herrera has delt with a just stock of teenage angst, but erstwhile successful a while, a pupil similar Alexia Pineda reminds everyone that a tiny displacement successful cognition tin marque a large difference.
"Ar first, I didn't truly spot anything," said Pineda. "I was like, okay, I conscionable privation to amended myself. But past aboriginal on... I was conscionable being much affirmative astir people. And it conscionable made maine consciousness amended astir myself."
Pineda's alteration successful cognition came aft a heart-to-heart with her teacher Mrs. Herrera.
"I bask coming to work, having students similar that, wherever they privation to learn, they privation to excel and they conscionable privation to beryllium amended humans due to the fact that that arsenic portion of a teacher, it's not conscionable teaching the basal subjects, but we're besides helping go amended citizens for our world," said Herrera.
And close now, Pineda's satellite is the classroom, a spot she is making amended by her determination to beryllium better.
"I conscionable amusement everybody else, similar a relation model, however large of a relation exemplary she is and however we should each act," said Cassidy Moody, an eight-grade student.
"Anyone could change, it doesn't substance who you are and honestly, I cognize they tin change, it's not hard. If I could bash it, anyone could bash it," said Pineda.
