An elementary school teacher turned Kobe Bryant's 'Dear Basketball' poem into a classroom assignment.
said he could tell on Monday that his fourth and sixth grade students at Ron Clark Academy needed to talk about the sudden loss of the NBA legend.
"You could see it in their eyes and children don’t really know how to communicate hurt and pain in the clearest of ways so I thought let’s reverse engineer it," Bonner told"""The first thing I told them was that it's okay to be sad, that adults in the building are sad, but how can we take those feelings and convert them into something positive, into something that will keep pushing us forward.
"You could see them taking the time to dive in and see what did he mean? What was his struggle?," Bonner said of his students."Why Kobe's legacy resonated with so many of us was because he was obsessed with getting better."The teacher then had his students write their worst fears down on paper, ball up the paper and throw their fears into the trash can one at a time."The idea of throwing their fears away, they really connected with it," Bonner said.
"That is what education is about, giving them some type of experience to make sure they can take it with them for the rest of their lives," he said.
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