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Trevor Scott Barton

 

Trevor Scott Barton is an elementary school teacher in Greenville, SC. He is a blogger for the Teaching Tolerance project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. 

Blog Posts by Trevor Scott Barton

Farmer
Posted by Trevor Scott Barton 1 day 5 hours ago
Grandpa, you are my Pepa. Before me, you wereRobert Elias Cunningham: son, brother, husband and father butGod, through my birth, made you Grandpa andI, in my smallness, through toddling talk and...
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Giving Tree
Posted by Trevor Scott Barton 1 week 2 days ago
If I were a tree     I would like to be          A giving tree.Leaves a peaceful green,     Birds could sit and...
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Marks
Posted by Trevor Scott Barton 2 weeks 1 hour ago
Editor’s Note: The following poem by Trevor Scott Barton was written while he was living in Africa and reading The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi.Holding you in the palm of my handI see...
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What Matters Most
Posted by Trevor Scott Barton 3 weeks 23 hours ago
Kind, tired eyes from too much seeing ...Worn, battered shoes from too much walking ...Stained, tattered shirt from too much working ...Gentle, calloused hands from too much holding ...Open, humbled...
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Building A World Without Hate
Posted by Trevor Scott Barton 8 weeks 2 days ago
The question for me as a teacher is not so much "What could have been?" as it is "What can be?"I think of my fourth grader holding signs that say, "I am MLK," "I am Anne Frank," "I am Harvey Milk," "...
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